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Digital security concerns lead off first Harbor Café of 2025

February 07, 2025

IAPH welcomed members to an insightful 2025 Harbor Café kickoff event on 5 February. For those unable to attend the event, a recording can be foundhere. Following a welcome by IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven, IAPH president Jens Meier (CEO, Hamburg Port Authority) offered his opening remarks, speaking to the importance of the Harbor Café concept in sharing knowledge and collaborating among members. Jens welcomed thenewly-electedregional vice president for Europe, Jacques Vandermeiren (C

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February 05, 2025

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd launch Gemini Cooperation The new Gemini Cooperation between Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will launch on February 1, more than a year after it was announced. When all vessels are fully phased into the new schedule by June 2025, the alliance will boast 57 services and a capacity of 3.7m teu on around 340 vessels. Those 57 services will comprise 29 mainline routes and 28 inter-regional shuttles, utilizing the alliance’s “hub and spoke” strategy. This relies on key ports, or hubs,

Welcome! Port of Luanda E.P. from Angola

January 31, 2025

We are pleased to announce that Port of Luanda E.P. has joined the IAPH as a regular member. Port of Luanda E.P. is a large-scale public corporation that oversees its operations and development in the Port of Luanda, located on the West African coast. It is the leading maritime port of Angola and a crucial logistical hub for the country, handling about 80% of Angola’s imports and exports. For more information, please visit the following website. https://www.portoluanda.co.ao/

Welcome! Shape Associates Ltd from Jersey

January 27, 2025

We are pleased to announce that Shape Associates Ltd has joined the IAPH as an associate member. Shape Associates Ltd, founded in 2020, is a business consulting firm headquartered in St. Helier, Jersey. The company currently helps UK and European-based ports implement ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems and optimize their use of Microsoft 365 throughout their business. Their goal is to be a trusted advisor and end-to-end business support partner for their clients. Shape Associates offe

Coming soon: 2025 IAPH Harbor Café kickoff

January 23, 2025

IAPH looks forward to welcoming all members to the IAPH Harbor Café kickoff event, which will take place online on 5 February 09.00-10.30 CET (17.00-18.30 JST). Following a welcome by IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven, IAPH president Jens Meier will give his opening remarks and welcome the newly-elected regional vice president for Europe, Jacques Vandermeiren (CEO of Port of Antwerp-Bruges) to offer his perspective on his new role and the challenges facing the port sector in the year ahea

Workstreams take shape for Technical Committee Days

January 23, 2025

Topical themes have been established for the upcoming IAPH Technical Committee Days, held in March at the International Chamber of Shipping in the heart of the City of London. The programme will kick off at 13.30 GMT on 26 March, with a full day of meetings on 27 March, concluding with lunch at 14.00 GMT on 28 March. As in previous editions, the programme will be split between plenary sessions of interest to all attendees and breakout sessions, which will comprise workshops and discussions on sp

Chloe Rowland joins IAPH as senior manager – DC/R&R

January 23, 2025

IAPH is delighted to announce that Chloe Rowland will be joining the IAPH team as senior manager of Data Collaboration & Risk and Resilience from 3 March. Chloe moderated the highly successful University of Plymouth Cyber-SHIP Lab Maritime Cyber Attack Mitigation Workshop which took place at last year’sIAPH World Ports Conferencein Hamburg in October. Originally qualifying as a commercial litigation lawyer, Chloe has been working in project management at the University of Plymouth for the past 1

IAPH and Mercator Media announce #IAPH2025 webinars

January 23, 2025

IAPH and Mercator Media are excited to announce the details of the #IAPH2025 webinar series, leading up to theWorld Ports Conferencetaking place in Kobe, Japan on 7-9 October 2025! These webinars will keep members informed on hot topics due for discussion this October, when industry-leading speakers will gather in Kobe for the association’s 70th anniversary conference. Each webinar will cover one or more of the areas of interest of theWorld Ports Sustainability Program. The topics for this serie

Ports and Harbors sets the agenda for 2025

January 23, 2025

The January-February issue of Ports & Harbors, the membership magazine of the IAPH, has just been published. In this first edition of the magazine for 2025, Port of Antwerp-Bruges CEO Jacques Vandermeiren addresses some of the many challenges and opportunities facing the industry in the coming year.Recently electedas the IAPH regional vice president for Europe, he speaks about building ports' resilience, sustainability and their role in the energy transition. He also outlines his port’s work in

Countdown to #IAPH2025: Mayor of Kobe takes the helm

January 23, 2025

IAPH returned home to Japan for its 1967 conference held in Tokyo – an event that was approached as a matter of national importance by the Japanese government. The minister of transport was appointed as chairman of the organising committee and 20 IAPH representatives were received by the Emperor and Empress at the Imperial Palace. Appropriately, the conference saw the mayor of Kobe, Dr Chujiro Haraguchi (pictured), elected president of IAPH. Haraguchi had been instrumental in Kobe’s selection

ESI transition team appointed

January 23, 2025

The IAPH Environmental Ship Index (ESI) stands on the eve of amajor transition, both in terms of its content development and internal organisation. These changes will see an expanded suite of performance modules to support ports and vessel owners on the journey to decarbonisation and lowering emissions. Coming online in January 2026, ESI’s revised and expanded offering will take into account a range of potential emissions, introduce a newGHG methodology, and reward innovation and application o

World Maritime News (94)

January 22, 2025

Singapore breaks bunker sales record Bunker sales in Singapore registered a new high of 54.92m tonnes in 2024, an increase of 6% on 2023's figure. According to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, the world's biggest bunkering hub supplied more than a sixth of the total fuel used by global shipping last year. Alternative bunker sales topped 1m tonnes for the first time, reaching 1.3m in 2024. The more than 100% increase in 2023 was driven mainly by biofuel blend sales, which grew from

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