GLIN==> Great Lakes Mayors Endorse Green Marine Shipping Program

PRESS RELEASE

 

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Julia Fields

 
(613) 294-8515 

                             

Great Lakes Mayors Endorse Green Marine Shipping Program 

 

Ottawa, Ontario (December 10, 2010) - Canadian and U.S. mayors from cities
around the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River passed a resolution today
to support Green Marine, an environmental program established by the marine
shipping industry.

 

Green Marine is a bi-national, voluntary program that aims to improve
participants' environmental performance beyond regulatory compliance by
introducing best practices, reduction targets and/or new technologies to
improve their record in areas such as invasive species, air emissions and
greenhouse gases, cargo residues, oily waters, conflicts of use within Ports
and environmental leadership.

 

The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, a bi-national
collaboration of mayors and local officials dedicated to the protection and
restoration of the waterways, today endorsed the program and agreed to
become an official supporter of Green Marine.

 

David Bolduc, executive director of Green Marine, said this resolution would
help foster greater communication between the marine shipping industry and
cities and communities around the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region on its
environmental improvements and would also aid in his efforts to recruit new
participants.

 

Bolduc said: "We have over 100 industry participants, partners and
supporters and we are now working to extend that participation even deeper
into the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system and beyond. This endorsement
further enhances the credibility of the program. We have already had federal
and provincial governments as supporters and we are pleased to add mayors
from cities around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to that list." 

 

Established in 2008, the Green Marine program has been nominated for a
Sustainable Shipping Award and has received formal support from
environmental groups like the World Wildlife Fund and Ducks Unlimited. 

 

Port authorities, ship owners and terminal operators - who represent nearly
half of the marine shipping activity in the Great Lakes-Seaway region-
evaluate their individual performance each year on a one-to-five scale from
regulatory compliance to achieving excellence.  The results are
independently verified by a third party and shared publicly to demonstrate
their environmental commitment.

 

For a full list of participants and the latest performance results go to
www.green-marine.org.

 

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Marine Delivers is a bi-national, industry collaboration that aims to
demonstrate the economic contribution and environmental sustainability of
the shipping industry throughout the Great Lakes region. The Marine Delivers
initiative is administered by the American Great Lakes Ports Association in
the United States, and the Chamber of Marine Commerce in Canada. For more
information, visit the Marine Delivers website at www.marinedelivers.com.

 

 

Laura M. Blades

Director of Public Affairs

American Great Lakes Ports Association

700 12th Street, NW  Suite 700

Washington, DC 20005

T:  202-558-5123

C:  301-956-5391

blades at greatlakesports.org

 

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