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Registration for 2024 World Ports Conference is open

February 22, 2024

The main theme of the 2024 IAPH World Ports Conference will cover managing risk, building resilience and unlocking opportunities. With the rise of geopolitical tensions, changing trade patterns, the influence of an ever-changing energy transition landscape and surging weather events and cyberattacks on ports, the conference will look how these issues are impacting the maritime supply chain, and more importantly what tools ports can equip themselves with in order to become more resilient. The f

IAPH engages Indian membership in Mumbai

February 22, 2024

In the last two weeks, IAPH’s representative for India Ennarasu Karunesan attended both the EXIM BHP-CTL international conference last week as speaker as well as joining IAPH president Jens Meier at the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce reception which took place last night in Mumbai, organised by Hamburg Port Marketing. At the BHP-CTL conference, Ennarasu joined a panel on 15 February which included the chair of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) and other senior industry figures on bes

ArcelorMittal Shipping joins IAPH

February 22, 2024

IAPH welcomed new associate member ArcelorMittal Shipping at a meeting held at IAPH’s London office in Park Street earlier this month. Deepak Sachdeva, head of global ports, and captain Nitin Mehrotra, general manager shipping, chartering, ports & logistics, were hosted by IAPH business development director Nick Blackmore and policy and IMO liaison officer Rhona Macdonald. ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel and mining company. The group discussed ArcelorMittal Shipping’s goals and partic

First sponsors announced as #IAPH2024 gathers pace

February 09, 2024

We are pleased to announce IRM Offshore and Marine Engineers Pvt. Ltd. as a silver sponsor, TT Club as a bronze and badge sponsor, andHamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) as a bronze sponsor of the 2024 IAPH World Ports Conference. Taking place 8-10 October, #IAPH2024 will be held at Hamburg Congress Centre, a state-of-the-art convention venue. The host sponsor for the event is Hamburg Port Authority and early bird registration is now open. This year’s edition of the conference will focus on m

Harbor Café on Red Sea crisis – 26 and 27 February

February 09, 2024

The first global IAPH Harbor Café session of the year will focus on the ongoing crisis in the Red Sea and the strategies deployed by ports and key stakeholders to foster resilience in the face of persistent disruptions. This discussion will serve as an appetizer for the theme of this year’s IAPH World Ports Conference, which focuses on risk and resilience. Given our commitment to ensure broad participation, we are offering two meetings, on 26 February from 5 to 6.30 PM CET and on 27 February fro

IAPH Technical Committee Days topics announced

February 09, 2024

The next edition of the IAPH Technical Committee Days will take place 25-27 March in London, in hybrid format. IAPH associate member TT Club has kindly offered to hold the meetings at their Fenchurch Street headquarters, in the heart of the City of London. Content sessions will cover a wide range of topics, including the IMO agenda on decarbonising shipping, cybersecurity in the context of implementing the IMO Maritime Single Window, clean marine fuels and port readiness, data harmonisation for

APEC-CMAT-IAPH International Port Strategy Course

February 09, 2024

For the fourth year in a row, IAPH is collaborating with its associate members Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Centre (APEC) and the Centre for Maritime and Air Transport (C-MAT) in organising a course on international port strategy. The course features interactive online sessions from 15 April to 10 May, followed by a live week in Antwerp from 13 to 17 May. During the interactive online sessions, international port and maritime experts from around the globe will share their knowledge and best pr

Forthcoming IAPH submissions to IMO FAL 48

February 09, 2024

At the forthcoming 48th meeting of the IMO Facilitation Committee, IAPH have made a number of submissions that reflect the ongoing work and recent progress made at the Data Collaboration Committee. IAPH, alongside Pascal Ollivier, Frans Van Zoelen and other stakeholders, have submitted three documents to this session. Following the 1 January 2024 deadline requiring Contracting States to the FAL Convention to set up a Maritime Single Window (MSW), IAPH have submitted a document aiming to draw t

IAPH president visited Port of Vancouver

February 09, 2024

As part of a trip to North America, IAPH president Jens Meier visited the Port of Vancouver two weeks ago. Together with Simone Maraschi, chairman of the IAPH Cruise Committee and managing director of Cruise Gate Hamburg, he met with Port of Vancouver’s CEO Peter Xotta who succeeded Robin Silvester last fall. Robin also served as IAPH vice-president for North America. Joining the meeting was the port authority’s harbour master Shri Madiwal, vice-chairman of the IAPH Risk and Resilience Committee

IAPH colleagues met in Tokyo and Kobe

February 09, 2024

Last week IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven and strategy and communications director Victor Shieh met up with secretary-general Masahiko Furuichi and our Japanese colleagues at the IAPH office in Tokyo as part of the implementation of thenew organisational structure. They set out planning for 2024, which will include major upgrades to both IAPH and WPSP websites, the digitisation of the membership directory and major membership outreach projects. Patrick and Victor were also accompanied

Risk and Resilience main theme #IAPH2024

January 26, 2024

The 2024 IAPH World Ports Conference, which will be held in Hamburg 8-10October under the host sponsorship of Hamburg Port Authority, hasa brand new portal, courtesy of our new conference partner Mercator Media. The main theme of the conference is already on: ‘ManagingRisk - Building Resilience -UnlockingOpportunities”.2024 will be a pivotal year for ports and their communities. Geopolitical instability is on the rise. Physical and digital security is under threat, at sea and on shore.Shipowne

Marine fuels assessment tool enters next stage

January 26, 2024

More than forty IAPH members attended the Climate and Energy committee meeting held virtually on 16 January. The highlight of the agenda was the discussion over the current status and future development of the Port Readiness Levels for Marine Fuels (PRL-MF) assessment tool that has been jointly developed by the IAPH Clean Marine Fuels (CMF) working group and the World Ports Climate Action Program (WPCAP). In line with the outcomes of the recent dedicated survey, the committee gave overwhelming p