EPF has recently welcomed 5 new members to the Ecoports network; the Port of Kotka in Finland, the Port of Waterford in Ireland, The Region Nord-Pas de Calais who is partly responsible for the management of the Ports of Calais and Boulogne in France, the Orkney Islands Harbours in the UK, and the Port of Harlingen in The Netherlands. The Ecoports network currently counts 50 partners.

Twenty additional Ports have submitted within 2009 their SDMs for analysis at Ecoports raising the number of SDM submissions within the Ecoports database to over 80. The new submissions enabled the updating of the European benchmark of performance. The new SDM benchmark 2009 is being used for the analysis of SDM submissions as of June 2009.

Several ports are in the process of PERS certification or re-certification. French and German are in the process of implementing PERS and preparing the documentation in order to apply for certification. A number of UK ports are soon expected to submit the documentation for their re-certification. Within 2009 the Port of Piraeus got PERS re-certified and the port of Castellon joined the PERS certificate holders’ network. There are 35 ports currently certified by PERS.