PRPA Announces Green Wave Award Recipients for Environmental Program’s Record Year

EFFECTIVE JUNE 9, 2025

PRINCE RUPERT, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA) is honouring five companies for their outstanding participation in the Green Wave program.

The recipients of the 2024 Green Wave Award are intermodal carriers COSCO and Yang Ming, liquid-bulk shipping lines SK Shipping and Navigator Gas LLC, and coastal passenger and vehicle transportation service BC Ferries.

PRPA also recognizes nine individual vessels for using underwater noise mitigation technology, including: container vessels YM PLUM, YM UNIFORM, YM MUTUALITY, and MOL CHARISMA; LPG carriers BOREAL VOYAGER and HLS DIAMOND; dry-bulk carriers XH SQUARE LEG and YANGZE 16; as well as cruise vessel ROALD AMUNDSEN.

Launched in 2013, the Green Wave program offers financial incentives to commercial vessel owners who voluntarily invest in environmentally sustainable measures. Guided by standards recognized throughout the global maritime industry, PRPA provides lower harbour fees based on a vessel’s air emissions and underwater noise performance. The Green Wave program requirements are regularly updated to integrate environmental best practices as they evolve.

Over the past five years, there has been a notable increase in Green Wave program participation, demonstrating the accelerating shift within the global shipping fleet towards adopting environmentally sustainable practices. In 2024, 316 commercial vessel calls met the program’s criteria, representing a 33 percent rise over 2019.

“The Prince Rupert Port Authority commends the 2024 Green Wave Award recipients for their commitment to decarbonizing the global shipping and passenger transportation sectors and lessening the impacts of their operations on the environment,” said Shaun Stevenson, President and CEO, Prince Rupert Port Authority. “We are also encouraged to see a record number of vessels calling on the Prince Rupert Gateway that are activating measures to reduce underwater noise. These critical investments help support the protection of marine mammals and other aquatic life around the North Coast and beyond.”

The Green Wave program is an important component of PRPA’s environmental stewardship strategy and exemplifies the organization’s leadership role in supporting the decarbonization of transpacific supply chains. The initiative advances PRPA’s own continuing actions to drastically cut carbon dioxide, airborne particulates, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide emissions in the airshed surrounding the Port of Prince Rupert. It also directly supports PRPA’s goal of reducing carbon intensity at the Prince Rupert Gateway by a further 30 percent in the next five years and reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.

QUICK FACTS:

• In 2024, 174 individual vessels calling on the Port of Prince Rupert qualified for the initiative, an 89 percent increase year-over-year.
• Between 2014 and 2024, ~710 calls met Green Wave standards under the RightShip Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) Rating (Ratings A and B), a method developed by the world’s leader in maritime environmental assessment to rate vessels on relative efficiency.
• Based on RightShip rated calls alone, approximately 808,690 tonnes of GHG emissions were avoided in the local airshed over the decade, which is equivalent to removing 17,025 passenger vehicles from the road for a year.

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ABOUT THE PRINCE RUPERT PORT AUTHORITY

The Prince Rupert Port Authority manages the Port of Prince Rupert, Canada’s northernmost trade gateway on the west coast. The Port of Prince Rupert anchors one of the fastest and most reliable supply chains between North America and Asia, providing vital infrastructure to support shippers and industries as they move their goods and resources to market. The port handles approximately $60 billion in trade value per year and supports an estimated 3,300 direct supply-chain jobs in northern BC, $340 million in annual wages, and generates $1.4 billion for the northern B.C. economy.

FOR MEDIA INQUIRIES CONTACT:  

Olivia Mowatt 
Senior Communications Officer
Prince Rupert Port Authority  
omowatt@rupertport.com