Waterway Panorama - Antaq

l Waterway Panorama
Environment
Port environmental management
The gathering of information on environmental
management in Brazilian public ports by
ANTAQ was expanded in 2009 with the increase
in the number of ports – two more than in
2007 – and the inclusion of new provisions and
environmental aspects in the Integrated Environmental
Management System – SIGA.
With the inclusion of Ilhéus (BA) and Pelotas
(RS), the assessment now encompasses 32 ports.
The others are: Maceió (AL), Macapá (AP), Manaus
(AM), Aratu and Salvador (BA), Fortaleza
(CE), Vitória (ES), Itaqui (MA), Belém, Santarém
and Vila do Conde (PA), Cabedelo (PB), Antonina
and Paranaguá (PR), Recife and Suape (PE), Natal
(RN), Angra dos Reis, Forno, Itaguaí, Niterói
and Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Porto Alegre and Rio
Grande (RS), Porto Velho (RO), Imbituba, Itajaí
and São Francisco do Sul (SC), and Santos and
São Sebastião (SP).
The number of provisions assessed by the
Agency has also increased, from 13 to 24 items:
l Environmental Center;
l Pollution Risk Management;
l Solid Waste Management;
l Internal Procedure Manual;
l Personal Emergency Plan – PEI;
l Emergency Control Plan - PCE;
l Environmental Risk Prevention Program – PPRA;
l Environmental Licensing for Ports;
l Environmental Licensing for Dredging;
l Port Support Services;
l Center for Occupational Safety and Medicine;
Environmental Audit;
l Environmental Licensing for Leases;
l Center for Safety and Occupational Medicine,
Environmental Audit;
l Environmental Licensing for Leases;
l Security Unit, ISPS, and Certification by the IMO;
l Dangerous Goods;
l Environmental Liabilities;
l Voluntary Certification (ISO, others);
l “Environmental” Development and Zoning Plan
– PDZA;
l Global Integrated Shipping Information System
– GISIS;
l Avian Influenza Contingency Plan;
l Environmental Training and Qualification Plan;
l Atmospheric emissions;
l Noise Pollution; and
l Port Environmental Agenda.
SIGA is developed by the Board of Environment
of ANTAQ (GMA), through periodic visits to ports,
in which not only representatives of environmentrelated
areas are contacted, but also sectors of
planning, engineering and operations, occupational
safety and health, and port security units.
During these visits, the GMA uses the SIGA
Form as a tool for gathering information as a basis
for assessing the environmental performance of
ports. Compliance, whether legal or not, is organized
in the form in the form of items and folders,
so that its application may be carried out in a
quick, practical way.
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