• 3 min de lectura
• 3 min de lectura
The Port of Barcelona today hosted the first installation of RegenPorts, the program promoted by the BCN Port Innovation Foundation to integrate marine regeneration into port activity and demonstrate that ports can become active spaces for biodiversity and innovation.
RegenPorts is developing a comprehensive model to make marine regeneration possible in port environments with technical, scientific, and operational guarantees, ensuring it is measurable, scalable, and replicable. The program has developed an operational protocol and a specific insurance framework to ensure that the deployment of solutions can coexist with port activity, exempting companies that wish to join from liabilities arising from possible damages or interferences with port operations.
This approach is complemented by a triple validation system (technical, scientific, and operational) that ensures the functioning of the technologies, accreditation by research centers, and the viability of deployment in the real context of an operational port.
The program plans to incorporate different solutions adapted to various port spaces into its portfolio. The Life Boosting Units® (LBU), developed by Ocean Ecostructures to promote biodiversity recovery on vertical surfaces of dikes and quays, are the first technology in the commercialization phase within RegenPorts. In parallel, the program continues to advance in the validation of new solutions aimed at other areas of intervention. With this deployment, the Port of Barcelona will reach approximately 100 installed units.
During the event, the Commissioner for Economic Promotion, Trade, and Restaurants of the Barcelona City Council, Nadia Quevedo, highlighted "that with the new blue economy strategy 2030, Barcelona takes a step forward to consolidate this sector as one of the city's great economic drivers. RegenPorts is not just an environmental project; it is a project of innovation, technology, and opportunity generation. From the Economic Promotion department of the Barcelona City Council, we celebrate that the Port and the city's scientific and business ecosystem are joining forces to promote initiatives that generate impact and strengthen Barcelona's capacity to attract innovation and talent."
The President of the Port of Barcelona and of the BCN Port Innovation Foundation, José Alberto Carbonell, explained that "the RegenPorts program is born from the conviction that ports must reconcile economic activity with the regeneration of the marine environment." At the closing, Carbonell emphasized that "despite being born in Barcelona, RegenPorts has been designed to be developed in other environments. Once again, our port has been able to promote a pioneering program that can be applied in ports worldwide, demonstrating that marine regeneration can coexist with port activity and that ports are capable of generating environmental, social, and economic value."
The first installation of the RegenPorts program was held just after Oceans Week, which once again placed the health of marine ecosystems and biodiversity at the center of the global agenda; and within the framework of the third anniversary of the BCN Port Innovation Foundation.
