We see the port of the future as an open infrastructure in relation to other systems, as an engine that guarantees its viability and solidarity with the context. An infrastructure that balances different interests and is aware of its local-global reality.
Port of the Future articulates responses in a choral way, incorporating the visions of different disciplines and professionals, understanding that defining the future is a collective challenge. We identified fifteen core ideas to set the foundations and aspirations of a desired model.
We promote the maximum use of existing infrastructures in the city-port-territory ecosystem and the optimisation of commercial activities through technological and managerial improvements while reducing the environmental footprint.
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Optimising the use of port infrastructure
With
Fredrik Lindstål
II
The port infrastructure should focus on logistical activities serving the regional production and distribution economy and allow for compatible economic uses.
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A port at the service of the local and regional economy
With
Fredrik Lindstål
Diane Oshima
Keller Easterling
Jorge Sharp
III
Port spaces need to be rethought to remain active assets of progress. While maintaining their basic characteristics as open spaces of exchange, they need to be able to adapt to future changes in supply and demand. Therefore, their priorities need to be established with the involvement of different representative voices.
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An asset of social and economic progress
With
Stefan Al
Laleh Khalili
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Innovation and work
IV
The city-port region ecosystem needs to consolidate existing jobs, provide new employment opportunities, improve the situation of workers in the port community with worse conditions and ensure the overall quality of life as an asset for job creation.
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Expanding the possibilities for quality employment and personal development
With
Keller Easterling
Katy Fox-Hodess
Jorge Sharp
V
Gender equality must be ensured at all levels of port enterprises, the inclusion of women in decision-making processes and the improvement of conditions for essential work.
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Committing to gender equality and the dignity of port work
With
Katy Fox-Hodess
Laleh Khalili
VI
To drive innovation, it is necessary to connect port agents with new activities, educational institutions, business support organisations and the availability of public spaces and cultural infrastructure.
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Developing the maritime innovation ecosystem
With
Fredrik Lindstål
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
City and territory
VII
We blur the boundaries to consider the space that connects the port with the territory as a living, changing and permeable space that manages to create enriching situations in each of the sides.
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Removing the barriers to an ecosystem of city, port and territory
With
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Jorge Sharp
Keller Easterling
VIII
The connection with the city must be to find spaces where the port is also a city. It is therefore necessary to connect the port infrastructure with social and cultural infrastructure: uses must be created to connect citizens to the docks and the port in a real and symbolic way.
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Introducing compatible uses for public access
With
Fredrik Lindstål
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Laleh Khalili
IX
We are building a history of the future that connects us as a city to the port and the sea and honours the memory and identity of seafarers.
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Giving new meaning to coastal ideas
With
Diane Oshima
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Laleh Khalili
Environment and health
X
Adapting to climate change requires a new approach to infrastructure: we need to move from control to coexistence with the dynamics of water. We need to activate resilience strategies and pay attention to slow variables in order to live with the change in river flows and sea level rise.
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Living with water
With
Diane Oshima
Miriam García García
Stefan Al
XI
We advocate for the sustainability of logistics and transport and strengthen our commitment to mitigating climate change. We decarbonise our own activities and activate strategies to accompany improvements in the environment.
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Reducing the ecological footprint
With
Fredrik Lindstål
Diane Oshima
Laleh Khalili
XII
If we consider the coastal front as a public space in the city, it must be accessible, inclusive and healthy. Therefore, its realisation must promote the reduction of health inequalities in its surroundings and ensure air quality, connection with the water and citizens' ownership.
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Understanding the waterfront as a resource for health and wellbeing
With
Katy Fox-Hodess
Stefan Al
Government and participation
XIII
A governance model that approaches, recognises and focuses on the city-port-territory interdependence is the first step in aligning the development of the port, the city and the territory and achieving the goals set.
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A port from the city
With
Diane Oshima
Keller Easterling
Miriam García García
Laleh Khalili
XIV
Looking to the future and the desired governance model requires new guarantees and instruments. Opening democratic information and decision-making channels to a wider port community is one of the most important guarantees for good management and sustainable development.
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Open and transparent decision-making processes
With
Diane Oshima
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Laleh Khalili
Stefan Al
XV
The system of planning and managing port infrastructure must respond to the development of the economy and the demands and rights of people. This requires a multidisciplinary and innovative perspective.
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Innovating in port planning processes
With
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Laleh Khalili
Stefan Al
Port of the Future is based on fifteen core ideas to lay the foundation for a desired model. This proposal opens a reflection with representatives of port communities around the world to deepen the debate and define common and possible visions for the future.
