Environment & Safety

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Dolphin mother and calf in the Inner Harbour

Fremantle Ports is certified to international environmental, quality and safety standards.

Good Corporate Citizen of the Year Award, 2005 Australian Shipping and Transport Awards

Sound environmental performance is essential for long-term sustainability and our continuing business success.

We are committed to operating our business in a way that complies with legislation and regulatory requirements, protects the environment, conserves energy, provides the highest level of safety and ensures the appropriate management of risk.

Monitoring marine quality

· Water, sediment and mussels have been monitored in the Inner and Outer Harbours, shipping channels, Rous Head Harbour and upstream in the Swan River since 2001.

· At Kwinana Bulk Terminal, new grabs and a deflector plate minimise and capture any bulk cargo spill, preventing it from contaminating Cockburn Sound.

· Kwinana Bulk Jetty has a deck containment system to stop spillages.

· Fremantle Ports requires all ships to follow environmentally sound practices.

Saving water

· All of our facilities have Desert Cube waterless urinals (saving 1.9m litres of water annually)

· Recycling

Fremantle Ports recycles:

· Paper and cardboard

· Aluminum cans, foil and trays

· Steel cans, plastic bottles and milk cartons.

Reducing dust

We work closely with the Department of Environment and Conservation to refine monitoring and ensure the best possible dust management. Many improvements have been made at Kwinana Bulk Terminal.

Monitoring noise

Monitoring has shown that Fremantle Ports noise levels at the Kwinana Bulk Terminal are at least 5 dB less than assigned levels and do not contribute to noise in Kwinana.

Greenhouse Challenge member since 2001

Fremantle Ports strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our buildings, plant and office equipment. Overall out-emission levels remain low. We report our performance to the Australian Greenhouse Office annually.

‘Carbon neutral’ vehicle fleet

Through the Men of the Trees program, Fremantle Ports has funded planting of 4,805 trees over three years in the Lake Chinocup catchment area in the Great Southern. The trees are offsetting greenhouse gases emitted by our vehicle fleet.

Supporting environmental projects in the community

Butterfly House

Fremantle Ports has provided $10,000 in sponsorship to build a butterfly house at Naragebup Rockingham Regional Environment Centre. The butterfly house is an educational resource and healthy breeding and feeding environment for coastal butterfly species. We have supported Naragebup since it began in 1997.

Penguin Conservation

Fremantle Ports helps the conservation and sustainability of the Little Penguin population in the metropolitan area through financial and in-kind support for a three-year research project by Murdoch University.

Apace ‘Veg Web’

Fremantle Ports has provided indigenous flora organisation Apace, in North Fremantle, with first-stage sponsorship of its ‘Veg Web’ project. The sponsorship of $5,500 is enabling Apace to update its revegetation guides and increase its catalogue of illustrations of local plant species.