AAPA Latam held a new version of its Voz Experta Latam, an opportunity to address sustainability management in the port sector. The latest edition of this virtual event featuredJoão Paulo Ribeiro Santana, Director of Environment at Portos do Paraná, who was accompanied by Juan Duarte, Executive President of the American Association of Port Authorities for the region.
Ribeiro set a benchmark by showing how a port operating alongside the Atlantic Forest can integrate logistics and conservation into a single equation.
The Portos do Paraná professional explained that measuring, planning, and auditing are unavoidable steps to transform sustainability into a system of verifiable decisions, where practices such as dredging are treated as technical-environmental dilemmas supported by data.
Ribeiro also highlighted that ecological restoration actions, when articulated with local allies, cease to be symbolic and become instruments for managing operational and financial risk, generating resilience for the logistics chain.
Finally, the executive showed that productivity and the social license are inseparable: cleaner operations, lower consumption, and reduced emissions within the port are complemented by community programs that produce tangible public goods such as water, employment, and technical training.
