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Welcome! Kale Logistics Solutions Private Limited from India

June 22, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Kale Logistics Solutions Private Limited joined the IAPH as an associate member. Kale Logistics Solutions Private Limited is an IT software company for logistics. The company is headquartered in India with regional branches and subsidiaries in the USA, Canada, Netherlands, UAE, Kenya, and Mauritius and serves more than 4500 customers in 29 countries. Its solutions help freight forwarders, NVOCC, LCL consolidators, shipping line agents, stevedores, surveyors, con

Welcome! BMT Group from Singapore

June 16, 2022

We are pleased to announce that BMT Group joined the IAPH as an associate member. BMT is a management and engineering consulting firm providing expertise to Ports and Terminals, Mining, Marine including offshore renewables, and Maritime industries. The company specializes in investment and market-related studies, master planning, maritime structures, and floating concepts to detailed engineering designs, project management and construction supervision, vessel inspection and surveys, management

Join the World Ports Tracker community

June 10, 2022

We are inviting ports worldwide to become part of the IAPH World Ports Tracker community. All that is needed is to respondto a short quarterly survey, providing informationabout expected number of cargo vessel calls, current hinterland transport conditions, current capacity utilisation of warehouses and distribution facilities, cargo throughput expectations, cruise and passenger vessel call size and frequency as well as current staff availability. The first survey covers the second quarter of 20

Discover the twelve IAPH priorities for 2022-2023

June 10, 2022

At the IAPH Annual General Meeting held after the 2022 World Ports Conference, members were presented with an overview of our work programme for the coming year. The programme consists of twelve priorities, grouped according to the three strategic focus areas of the organisation. It builds on the #ClosetheGaps theme of the Vancouver conference, the follow-up of which shapes our first priority, which consists of a joint report andIAPH’s contribution to the next edition of The World Bank’s Port Re

IAPH Cruise Committee takes new start with OPS focus

June 10, 2022

Next to our three strategic technical committees, which cover IAPH'swork programme priorities, we have three niche committees in operation, covering planning, operations & finance, legal issues, and cruise. The Cruise Committee has been inactive for about two years, largely due to the pandemic, but also due to a gap in leadership. Representatives of cruise member ports met in Vancouver three weeks ago, to explore how the committee could effectively be revitalised, defining a concrete agenda. The

Innovation Harbor Café planned for week 11 July

June 10, 2022

The Innovation Group of the IAPH Data Collaboration Committee is planning the first of a series of virtual walk-ins for IAPH regular and associate members at ourpopular online IAPH Harbor Café. The innovationsessions will showcase the work two member ports have initiated with start-ups including how they evaluated and selected the entrepreneurs, as well as giving the chance for the start-ups to share their solutions and experiences working with ports. The first is planned to be in July during th

Welcome! Port Technology International from the UK

June 02, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Port Technology International joined the IAPH as an associate member. Port Technology International is the premier media company for the ports and terminals sector. Founded in 1995, the company has grown from publishing a world-leading Journal to producing events, webinars, and other multimedia content. Its community comprises over 35,000 senior executives and key decision-makers across the ports and terminals industry. Through its Journal, events, and digital m

IAPH launches World Ports Tracker Survey

June 02, 2022

IAPH new quarterly report globally and per region will help ports to detect trends early on and enhance resilience IAPH is inviting ports to become part of the IAPH World Ports Tracker community by responding to a short8 question surveyon a quarterly basis, commencing as of today with a deadline of 17th June for Q2 2022. The first in-depth report will then be written by IAPH’s experts Professors Theo Notteboom and Thanos Pallis and sent to IAPH member participants and survey respondees thre

IAPH announces next steps of the exercise to #CloseTheGaps in port infrastructure competitiveness at #IAPH2022

May 30, 2022

#CloseTheGaps closing session last week in Vancouver at #IAPH2022 IAPH to produce summary report of the exercise together with the World Bank and will support the updating of its port reform toolkit IAPH will now produce a report with the World Bank on the entire #CloseTheGaps exercise with summary of findings of eight regional workshops, six dedicated breakfast regional sessions plus learnings from the main sessions that took place during the #IAPH2022 World Ports Conference in Vancouver.

This was #IAPH2022!

May 30, 2022

Nearly 500 delegates from over 40 countries gathered in Vancouver last week for the first in-person World Ports Conference held since 2019. Following the cancelled 2020 conference and the 2021 online conference – sponsored by Port of Antwerp – it was the first in-person conference that IAPH organised in partnership with S&P Global. Host sponsor was the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. Under the theme #ClosetheGaps, participants discussed the generational challenges that affect every port today:

#CloseTheGaps theme shapes the IAPH agenda

May 30, 2022

In follow-up to the 2022 World Ports Conference, IAPH will produce a report with The World Bank on the entire #CloseTheGaps exercise with a summary of the findings of eight regional pre-conference workshops, six dedicated breakfast regional sessions plus learnings from the main sessions that took place during the conference. We will also contribute to the next edition of The World Bank’s well-knownPort Reform Toolkitbased on the mutual experience and knowledge gained on the #CloseTheGaps exercis

IAPH World Ports Tracker takes off

May 30, 2022

Following on from the COVID-19 Barometer published during the first year of the pandemic, IAPH is rolling out the World Ports Tracker to monitor critical aspects of the evolution in the global port industry. The tracker aims to gain a timely understanding of the challenges that ports are facing, regionally and globally by relying on a combination of survey-based results and port performance data. As an introduction to this new data tool, a contribution to the memberflagship magazine Ports & Harb