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Port Endeavor makes its debut in Chinese 

September 19, 2025

Last Friday at the AntwerpPort House, the APEC-Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center led by Jenny (Tingting) Yao and Carolien De Vries played the firstPort Endeavorgame in Chinese, for a government delegation. IAPH’s strategy and communications director Victor Shieh provided the delegation with an overview of Chinese membershipas well as explaining the origins of thegame. The Chinese government delegation led by deputy director Tian Jia of the Transport Planning and Research Institute, Ministr

Survey into coastal hazards and cruise port planning 

September 19, 2025

IAPH members with operational interests in the cruise sector are invited to participate in a short online survey that will support a research study created to better understand the cruise industry’s consideration of coastal hazards on cruise port planning and operations. Your participation will provide crucial input regarding how cruise industry practitioners think about different coastal hazards in global cruise ports. The study has been created by the University of Rhode Island in partnershi

Countdown to #IAPH2025: Leading the energy transition

September 19, 2025

The growing influence of IAPH’scross-sectoral endeavorswas reflected in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the IMO in July 2023. Signed by IMO secretary general Kitack Lim, IAPH president Captain K. Subranamiam and IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven, the MoU agreed to closer collaboration on climate change, energy transition, digital transformation, trade facilitation and risk and resilience capacity building between shipping and ports. During his tenure, Kitack Lim had st

Member Ports News(101)

September 18, 2025

Europe and Africa Region 29-Aug The National Ports Agency. Morocco: Publication of the financial indicators of ANP and the 'ANP' Group for the 2nd Quarter of 2025 (Q2 2025) 3-Sep HAROPA PORT: First LNG bunkering operation at Le Havre Ro-ro terminal Autorità Portuale di Genova (Port Authority of Genoa): New Genoa Breakwater. Revised layout goes ahead 5-Sep Port of Göteborg AB: Ny direkttrafik mellan Göteborgs Hamn och Asien startad – här är första fartyget 6-Sep Autoridad Por

World Martime News (109)

September 17, 2025

U.S. tariff maze could become even more difficult after court ruling On August 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that former President Donald Trump's tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are illegal. The case is now heading to the Supreme Court, and the outcome could significantly impact U.S. importers and the container shipping industry. Potential Positive Impact (if IEEPA tariffs are struck down): Up to $200 billion in tariff refunds could boost U.S.

Welcome! David Wignall Associates from Singapore

September 08, 2025

We are pleased to announce that David Wignall Associates has joined the IAPH as an associate member. David Wignall Associates is a specialist company serving the maritime industry by supporting and advising owners, operators and investors in ports, terminals, shipping and logistics worldwide. Its primary services for ports, terminals, and shipyards include advisory, finance, and forecasting; planning, engineering, and project implementation; regulatory and legal services; management support

New IAPH regional VPs-elect for six regions

September 05, 2025

IAPH is pleased to announce thatvice presidents(2025-2027)for the following six regions have been elected by their member ports, following voting thattook place between 29 July and 19 August. They are in the image, from left to right, top to bottom: ​Africa: Abubakar Dantsoho (managing director/ CEO, Nigerian Ports Authority, Nigeria); ​America, North: Eugene Seroka (executive director, Port of Los Angeles, U.S.A, re-elected); ​Asia, South West, East & Middle East: Ichio Motono (senior executive

Patrick supports CEM-Hubs development in Busan

September 05, 2025

The 16thClean Energy Ministerialtook place in Busan, Republic of Korea, 25-27 August, alongside the 10th gathering ofMission Innovation. IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven was present to discuss the latest developments on theCEM-Hubsinitiative – a collaborative programme between the Clean Energy Ministerial, the International Chamber of Shipping and IAPH that aims to gather government support to build a network of hubs and maritime routes that will enable the transport of clean fuels from

IAPH Sustainability Awards: voting closes tomorrow

September 05, 2025

This is your last chance to vote for your favourite projects in theIAPH Sustainability Awards. Voting closes tomorrow, Friday 5 September midnight CEST –you can make your selections among the finalistshere. With a record high participation already, the current voting results are extremely close in most categories, and every additional vote can make the difference towards defining the final winners. The IAPH Sustainability Awards celebrates the very highest quality port-sustainability projects fr

#IAPH2025 webinar next week on port impacts of MEPC 

September 05, 2025

On Monday next week, the final webinar prior to the #IAPH2025 World Ports Conference in Kobe takes place. IAPH’s Rhona Macdonald, World Bank’s Jan Hoffmann and the chairs of IAPH's working groups on Clean Marine Fuels (Peter Alkema of Port of Amsterdam) and Port Readiness Level (Françoise van den Brinkof Port of Rotterdam)will be looking atthe status of the proposals on the table of the IMO Net Zero Framework ahead of the upcoming MEPC Extraordinary meeting, and discussing what they could mean f

Join our technical committee day in Kobe

September 05, 2025

On 6 October, the day prior to its World Ports Conference in Kobe, Japan, IAPH will be holding a series of in-person thematic working sessions of its technical committees, addressing key topics of interest. The sessions will be held atHotel Ōkura(pictured below) andall interested regular and associate members are encouraged to register their attendance at the sessions by completing theregistration form. A draft agenda can be viewedhere. Under the topic of Data Collaboration, participants will ha

Rhona shares port plans for NZF alignment at WMU

September 05, 2025

IAPH policy & IMO liaison officer Rhona Macdonald offered a port perspective on decarbonisation at the World Maritime University (WMU) last week. Under the theme of ‘Transforming a Maritime Future: Digitalization and Decarbonization’, WMU hosted its annual Maritime Affairs Conference (26-28 August) and Rhona participated in a panel session on decarbonisation. Joined by experts across the maritime value chain – including Svieneng Oftedal, chair of the IMO's Intersessional Working Group on the Red

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