APS and AMICA sign a collaboration protocol to promote the socio-labor integration of persons with disabilities in the santander 21/07/2020 port maritime field. The President of the Port Authority of Santander (APS), Jaime González, and the President of Amica, Mercedes del Hoyo Vielva, today signed a collaboration protocol that aims to establish a framework for action to develop joint actions to advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in environmental and social matters and, in particular, , in promoting the social participation of persons with disabilities and generating employment opportunities linked to the environmental environment.
This agreement will be finaled in three axes of action:
-Accessibility: with actions aimed at seeking accessibility in port facilities and docking in ports with passengers.
-Environment: with actions aimed, among other things, at the selective collection of packaging, cleaning of the Bay of Santander, co2 compensation, elimination of invasive plants...
-Social: actions aimed at developing a Social Responsibility campaign.
Thus, through this protocol, the APS is committed to promoting innovative projects to ensure that port facilities are accessible, secure, inclusive and sustainable; implement the culture of social responsibility in the planning of its actions; encourage socially responsible recruitment; design a strategy to ensure selective collection of packaging and traceability of waste arriving at port; promote the momentum of innovative projects and promote the momentum of projects aimed at reducing the environmental and visual impact of the activities that take place in the Port of Santander. For the president of the APS, Jaime González, the project, which is part of the Corporate Social Responsibility program of the Port, seeks to achieve "a socio-labor environment of integration into the port maritime environment" to open up a new framework of opportunities that allows to "discover new capacities in people". González thanked the president of Amica for the work that this association is developing to "promote equal opportunities and rights" among vulnerable sectors of society.
For its part, Amica is committed to the agreement to advise and collaborate in the momentum of innovative projects that are promoted from the Port Authority, helping to promote conciliatory designs with the environment and thereby favoring the participation of people with equal opportunities; make available to the APS its experience and knowledge in the development of the implementation of the culture of social responsibility, as well as its facilities and material means to carry out activities of exchange, research and knowledge management, both in Cantabria and Valencia, in finca Mijares, headquarters of the Campus Diversia project; contribute to socially responsible recruitment of services; and advice, where appropriate, on the promotion of the design of a strategy for the integral management of waste assimilated to urban waste and its implementation through its special employment centre dedicated to the environment, SAEMA EMPLEO, promoting from the Port that ships operating in its facilities separate the waste at source and subsequently deposit it in the containers that will be made available to them.
The president of the Association, Mercedes del Hoyo, wanted to thank Jaime González as representative of the APS for the clear social and environmental commitment of the organization and its involvement with the sustainable development objectives (SDGs) in the port environment, expressing its desire that the actions that are developed together can serve as a pilot experience to replicate later in other ports of the state in order to improve integration into the urban landscape , accessibility and reduction of the carbon footprint of the activity