Sustainability

INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POLICY

The PORT AUTHORITY OF CASTELLÓN, in line with its 2030 Strategic Plan, approved by the Board of Directors on December 19, 2025, and its mission to promote connectivity, sustainability, and public-private collaboration, establishes this Policy as a reference framework for excellent, safe, sustainable, and innovative port management.

Our vision of being a leading multi-purpose port in Europe and the Mediterranean guides all our actions.

We are committed to:

• Align the Integrated Management System with the purpose, context, and strategic planning, ensuring coherence between corporate objectives and the expected outcomes of the system, while driving continuous improvement and enhancing environmental performance.
• Consistently meet the needs and expectations of clients and stakeholders, ensuring efficient, reliable, and excellence-oriented port services, while strengthening the port-city relationship through active collaboration with the port community and the social environment.
• Comply with legal and other applicable requirements, especially regarding environmental matters and occupational health and safety, acting with transparency, ethics, and integrity.
• Protect the environment and prevent pollution, reduce impacts from port activities, promote the sustainable use of resources, and conserve biodiversity.
• Promote decarbonization, energy efficiency, and climate action to mitigate climate change and strengthen the port’s resilience against climate-related risks that may affect port operations.
• Ensure safe and healthy working conditions by eliminating hazards, reducing risks, and fostering a preventive culture among workers.
• Listen to and promote the active participation of employees and their representatives, providing two-way communication channels and ensuring their right to be involved in their own safety.
• Promote talent, professionalism, participation, consultation, and equality.
• Drive innovation, digitalization, and intermodality as levers of competitiveness.
• Promote public-private collaboration and partnerships with the technological and logistics ecosystem.
• Ensure economic sustainability and efficiency in the use of public resources.
• Provide leadership, with management assuming responsibility for the Integrated Management System, ensuring the necessary resources are available and that this Policy is communicated, understood, and accessible to all stakeholders.

QUALITY, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY POLICY (Spanish only)