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.
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
March 08, 2024
Registration for the next edition of the IAPH Technical Committee Days is now open. The TC 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 a
March 08, 2024
IAPH attended this year’s TPM conference, the largest maritime cargo logistics event in the world, gathering over 4,000 delegates in Long Beach, California. IAPH vice-president for North America, Gene Seroka (executive director Port of Los Angeles), and managing director Patrick Verhoeven used the occasion to meet with existing and potential port members from the United States and Canada, including Georgia Ports, Miami, Long Beach, New York New Jersey, Port Everglades, Seattle, Tacoma and Vancou
March 08, 2024
IAPH technical director, Antonis Michail attended this week the 13th edition of the International Maritime Transport and Logistics Conference – MARLOG 13 – in Alexandria, Egypt. Organised by IAPH associate member, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), the conference brought together more than 500 port, logistics, sustainability and technology experts, together with government and academic stakeholders, from 23 countries, primarily from the Arabic, African, Medit
March 08, 2024
IAPH member Port of London Authority (PLA) hosted managing director Patrick Verhoeven and business development director Nick Blackmore at the organisation's headquarters in Gravesend, Kent, on Thursday 21 February. Patrick and Nick met with members of the PLA’s sustainability, commercial, hydrography and harbour master departments and discussed areas for future collaboration. The visit, organised by head of stakeholder engagement Raj Kehal-Livi, continued with a tour of the PLA’s facilities, i
March 01, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Port of Gdańsk has joined the IAPH as a regular member. The Port of Gdańsk is located on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay in Poland. It is one of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea. As a transport hub in the Baltic Sea, the Port of Gdańsk features a dense network of regular shipping connections with America and Asia and feeder lines between the Baltic and North Sea ports. Port of Gdańsk Authority S. A. was established in 1998 as a commercial company and ha
February 29, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Chennai Port Authority has joined the IAPH as a regular member. Chennai port is one of India's major ports and a hub port on the east coast of India. The port handles containerized cargo, vehicles, project cargo, liquid and dry bulk cargo, and break bulk cargo. Chennai Port Authority is engaged in the overall administration and management of the port, and its name was changed from Chennai Port Trust in 2022. For more information, please visit the following
February 22, 2024
IAPH launched today its 2024 Sustainability Awards competition. We warmly encourage all member ports and associatemembers acting on behalf of regular member ports, to submit their sustainability projects and initiatives using thededicated onlineformat the World Ports Sustainability Program (WPSP) website by 24 May. The most inspiring projects in each of the six Awards categories; infrastructure, digitalisation, climate and energy, community building, environmental care, and health safety and sec
February 22, 2024
Two Port Endeavor training sessions took place over the week of 5 February in the Netherlands at the ports of Scheveningen and Rotterdam. On 5 February, IAPH policy and IMO liaison officer Rhona Macdonald, together with IAPH technical director Antonis Michail, facilitated a Port Endeavor training session for the core managing team of Scheveningen Harbor followed by a workshop to set the foundations of the port’s vision on sustainability. On 8 February, Antonis again, together with IAPH communica
February 22, 2024
The first global IAPH Harbor Café 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’sIAPH World Ports Conference, which focuses on risk and resilience. Given our commitment to ensure broad participation, we are offering two sessions, on 26 February from 5 to 6.30 PM CET and on 27 February from 10 to 1
February 22, 2024
Last Monday marked the three-month anniversary since Houthis seized the Galaxy Leader and its 25 seafarers in the Red Sea. The vessel, a roll-on/roll-off vehicle carrier, was seized on the 19 November.IAPH supported a statement initiated by the International Chamber of Shippinginvolving maritime industry stakeholders from around the world to express their concern for the seafarers who have been held hostage and call on the Houthis to release the crew of the Galaxy Leader.
