On May 22, 2009, the Port of Cleveland earned Green Marine Certification. The Green Marine Program is a bi-national initiative along the St. Lawrence Seaway and throughout the Great Lakes to strenghten maritime environmental performance through the voluntary adoption of best management practices.
Marine transportation remains one of the world's most environmentally-friendly means of shipping goods. Building on its reputation, the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes marine industry is going one step further and taking action to strengthen its environmental performance. For the first time in North America, all sectors of the marine industry have united to voluntarily adopt an environmental program designed to drive a process of continuous improvement along this major maritime corridor.
Green Marine is being spearheded by an alliance of the marine industry associations in Canada and the United States:
American Great Lakes Ports Association
Canadian Shipowners Association
Chamber of Marine Commerce
Ontario Marine Transportation Forum
Shipping Federation of Canada
St. Lawrence Economic Development Council (SODES)
St. Lawrence Shipoperators
United States Great Lakes Shipping Association
It is headed by a Council of Governors composed of the Presidents of marine companies hat are participants of the Green Marine environmental program.
