Air

Air and Energy Action Program

Port Metro Vancouver is leading the way for other ports to address air quality and climate change, by focusing on the use of technologies and the promotion of operational efficiencies to reduce air emissions. Our Air Action Program works to reduce emissions now and as we grow to help maintain good air quality for the future.

Key components of our Air Action Program are:    

• EcoAction Program

  Our EcoAction Program promotes attainable emissions reduction goals for ocean-going vessels that enter our Port, and rewards those who excel in environmental stewardship. In 2010, we launched the Blue Circle Award for the EcoAction Program for Shipping, a user-friendly financial incentive for shipping lines that reduce emissions of their ocean-going vessels.
• EcoAction Program and the Blue Circle Award

• Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy

  Port Metro Vancouver is working with the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma to address port-related contributions to air quality and climate change in the Georgia Basin Puget Sound air shed through the Northwest Port's Clean Air Strategy. We also collaborate with national and international stakeholders to ensure the programs in place have a lasting effect.

• Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy - 2007

• Implementation reports: 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011  

• Port Metro Vancouver Landside Air Emissions Inventory

  Port Metro Vancouver led the development of a port landside emissions inventory of common air contaminants, greenhouse gases with support from Environment Canada and Metro Vancouver. This Phase One report includes emissions from cargo-handling equipment, trucks and rail along Burrard Inlet and Roberts Bank.

• Port Metro Vancouver 2005 Landside Emissions Inventory - December 2008

• Port Metro Vancouver 2010 Landside Emissions Inventory - March 2012 Executive Summary | Main Report | Appendices 

• Environmental Requirements Through the Truck Licensing Program

  Starting in 2008 we introduced increasingly stringent environmental requirements into the Container Truck Licensing Program (TLS). Requirements focus on the phasing out of older trucks, mandatory opacity and idling limits and an awareness program. Consistent with the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy, the requirements will bring the fleet up to the equivalent of a 2007 truck for particulate matter emissions.
• Truck Licensing System