Domestic environmental co-operation

Finnish Port Association

The Finnish Port Association, founded in 1923, is the central organisation for public and private ports. The association has 30 members. It acts as the lobbyist for ports both in Finland and abroad and has representatives in a number of organisations dealing with port policies and traffic questions. The Port of Helsinki is a member of the environmental workgroup.

Further information: Finnish Port Association

Baltic Sea Challenge

In 2008, the Mayors of Helsinki and Turku initiated the Baltic Sea Challenge, a campaign to protect the Baltic Sea. One of the initiatives in the campaign was to encourage the pumping of the vessel waste waters into the city’s sewage systems and thus on to the sewage treatment plants. The waste waters of all vessels in regular passenger traffic were pumped into the sewage system while the vessels were berthed. International cruise ships have also positively accepted the challenge. Two co-operation networks of cities around the Baltic Sea, the Baltic Metropoles Network and the Union of the Baltic Cities, have been called upon to promote the challenge campaign.

Further information: Baltic Sea Challenge

Eco-support activities

Eco-support activities are an operations model created by the City of Helsinki in which environmental work is promoted by eco-supporters appointed for each unit and provided with the training. The purpose of the eco-support activities and the eco-supporter network is to increase environmental responsibility among the city’s personnel. The activities aim to turn the city’s environmental policy into practical environmental efforts at the grass roots level, resulting in increased environmental responsibility, an improved state of the environment and financial savings.

In addition to the above, the Port of Helsinki is actively involved in the City of Helsinki’s Energy Savings Board and Air Protection Group.