This issue focuses on Asia and Middle East region, Vessel Traffic Management, Port design and planning (including hydrography) and more.

In Open Forum ‘Fighting crime through trade facilitation’, Pascal Ollivier of Soget tells P&H Implementation will mean a change …

Mrs. Sacha Rougier, Managing Director, Cruise Gate Hamburg GmbH, Hamburg Port Authority, was appointed by President Santiago Garcia Milà to chair the IAPH Cruise Committee. Replacing Monica Michel-Bonvalet who left the Port of Marseille last year, Sacha will bring her …

The IAPH Port Finance and Economics Committee chaired by Dov Frohlinger, Israel Ports Company, is now conducting online survey to review international port policies in regard to risk assessments and more specifically insurance coverage for dealing with risks. Respondent confidentiality …

IAPH Membership Directory 2018 was published and sent out to IAPH Members last week. We would like to thank all the IAPH Members who assisted us in keeping the contents up-to-date as well as advertisers who kindly placed impressive adverts. …

On March 22 & 23 senior representatives of global ports, industry, stakeholders and policy-makers will gather in Antwerp to kick-off the World Ports Sustainability Program (WPSP)-IAPH initiative based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals drawn up by the United Nations. With WPSP, global ports …

Thanks to our Baku conference host, Early Bird discount registration has been extended until Thursday, 1 March 2018.  Why don’t you register today and save US$200, both IAPH members and non-members at http://www.iaphbaku2018.com/registration/?do=registration

Good news for non-IAPH member ports …

The IAPH working group on LNG fueled vessels has commenced working on accreditation.  For more details (including group meeting and how to participate etc), please click here

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