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IAPH TC Days successfully held in London

April 05, 2024

Last week IAPH held its Technical Committee Days in London for a second year in a row, with over 50 participants attending in person and approximately 150 members connecting to our thematic sessions on resilience, data collaboration and energy transition, as well as the committee meetings themselves. In addition to the IAPH regular ports and associate members, several UN agencies attended as speakers and participants, including IMO technical officers from marine environment, trade facilitation a

IAPH Clean Marine Fuels Working Group met in London

April 05, 2024

Chaired by Cees Boon and Françoise van den Brink of the Port of Rotterdam, the IAPH Clean Marine Fuels Working Group held its own meeting after the IAPH Technical Committee Days last week, in order to set out a work agenda for the coming months. The period will be very busy, with the updating of, and production of, numerous new bunkering checklists, and the development of audit and terminal readiness tools that can be applied across different fuels. In discussion with the IAPH team, the working

IAPH to present five submissions at IMO FAL 48

April 05, 2024

IAPH will be attending the 48th meeting of the IMO Facilitation Committee (FAL 48) which is taking place from 8-12 April at the IMO headquarters in London. Rhona Macdonald, Patrick Verhoeven and Frans Van Zoelen will be representing the association. This session is of particular importance as we have a total of five submissions on a number of topics that highlight the need to increase cooperation and improve efficiency between port authorities and other critical actors in the ship-to-shore inter

IAPH to participate in IMO MASS seminar

April 05, 2024

During the FAL Committee next week, IAPH will also be participating in a seminar on the implications, challenges and opportunities of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) for ports and public authorities. The seminar will be held in the afternoon of 11 April, from 2.30-4 pm and consists of two sessions. The first session will provide the technology developers’ perspective, with contributions from ABB Norway, MacGregor and Massterly. The second session brings the ports’ perspective and will b

IAPH presented on PCS at WMU course

April 05, 2024

Earlier this week, the chairman of the IAPH Data Collaboration Committee, Pascal Ollivier, took part in a course of the World Maritime University on port operations and technology. Pascal joined colleagues of the World Bank in presenting the findings of the jointIAPH–World Bank report on Port Community Systems–Lessons from Global Experienceto students of the WMU Master of Science in Maritime Affairs programme, specialising in port management. The course marked the first dissemination of the IAPH

IAPH World Ports Tracker for Q3-Q4 2023 is published

March 26, 2024

The latestIAPH World Ports Tracker reporthas been published and has been made available for public use, this time summarising results from the second half of 2023 as reported by IAPH members during the first quarter of 2024. The 110 page report, co-authored by professor Theo Notteboom and professor Thanos Pallis, contains regional breakdowns as well as micro-analyses of latest data from IAPH member port respondees, the S&P Global Port Performance Program and the UNCTAD Liner Shipping Connectivit

March – April edition of Ports & Harbors is out

March 26, 2024

For our March and April edition, we have a cover interview with Karin Orsel, who has been appointed as the first female president of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA). Karin speaks together with IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven about shipping's resilience in crises, the Fit for Fifty-Five initiative and the Emission Trading Scheme in Europe. We look at changing global trade patterns that are impacting Southeast Asia and what makes the terminal operator ICTSI tick wit

IAPH joins first Maldives Maritime Conference

March 26, 2024

On 6-7 March, the IAPH representative for India, Ennarasu Karunesan, joined the first Maldives Maritime Conference, organised by IAPH member Maldives Ports Limited under the leadership of their new CEO Mohamed Wajeeh Ibrahim. The event was supported by IAPH, UNCTAD TrainForTrade,Valencia Port Authority, Fundación Valenciaport, Maldives State Shipping, and Johor Port Berhard. The conference addressed the topics of innovative and emerging technologies, maritime transport connectivity and logistics

ESI introduced to UN Global Compact Brazil

March 26, 2024

The benefits of the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) were presented to port industry leaders at the 7th meeting of the Ocean Business Working Group of the UN Global Compact Brazil, on 12 March. The working group – which comprised more than 60 companies, including private and public ports – is focused on maritime and port decarbonization and provides a platform for valuable knowledge exchange and learning opportunities. IAPH attended at the invitation of Porto do Açu, an ESI Incentive Provider and

Welcome! Amzone International Ltd. from UAE

March 26, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Amzone International Ltd. has joined the IAPH as an associate member. Amzone International Ltd. is a comprehensive rigging facility and rope specialist based in the UAE. It provides top-class industry-wide services that cater to the oil offshore, marine, ports, ship repair, ship chandler, construction, piling and foundation, elevator, crane, and general engineering industries and applications. For more information, please visit the following website. https:

Statement on the attack on the bulk vessel True Confidence

March 08, 2024

The association is saddened to hear of the loss of crew members and serious injuries to others sustained from the attack on the bulk vesselTrue Confidencein the Gulf of Aden yesterday. IAPH is a co-signatory to the industry'sappealto release the seafarers of the vesselGalaxy Leadercurrently in captivity and our thoughts are with the crew and their families after this new horrific attack on shipping.

ESI moves to the next level

March 08, 2024

As the shipping industry strives to decarbonise, the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) is evolving to help owner-operators exceed the latest standards. Throughout 2024 and beyond, ESI’s modules are set to expand to take into account a range of potential emissions including GHGs and a range of zero-emissions techniques, alongside further enhancement of noise-emission functionality. This far-reaching revision of ESI’s formula is being guided by a Technical Advisory Group, which held its latest meetin