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IAPH Board meeting held 23 June

June 30, 2023

IAPH Board members met online on 23 June. The main items on the agenda were related to the implementation of the benchmark report that was produced earlier this year, comparing IAPH’s organisational structure and financial performance with a peer group of international and regional associations of shipping companies and port authorities. Board members discussed the business mapping process prepared by the IAPH management team as part of the implementation plan and adopted a new organisation char

Sector focus sessions at 2023 World Ports Conference

June 30, 2023

Next to strategic and technical sessions on energy transition, data collaboration and resilience, also covering sustainability, leadership and governance, the agenda of this year’s IAPH World Ports Conference includes dedicated sector focuses oncruise, breakbulk and containers. The breakbulk session is scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday 31 October and will be chaired by Janet Nodar, senior editor breakbulk, project and heavy lift shipping at the Journal of Commerce (JOC). With panellists Ste

You can still join today’s Harbor Café on ESI

June 30, 2023

The latest IAPHHarbor Café for the Africa and Europe regions will take place online in a couple of hours at 11 CEST andwill focus on implementing vessel calculation tools and port incentive schemes to reduce emissions at ports. It will feature experts from our IAPH Environmental Ship Index incentive scheme, all of whom have been involved in implementing the Index for over a decade, including the ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg and Amsterdam. African ports have yet to look at adopting the index and a

Mr. Jens Meier IAPH President-elect for 2023-2025

June 28, 2023

IAPH Regular and Honorary members voted this month to elect Jens Meier, CEO of Hamburg Port Authority, Germany as the President of IAPH for a two-year mandate, commencing in November this year. Mr. Meier has been Vice-President for the Europe region since 2019. He will succeed Capt. Subramaniam Karuppiah, General Manager at the Port Klang Authority, who has been at the helm of the organization since 2021. The official transition will take place during the2023 World Ports Conference. At the Ann

You can read articles on the IAPH website in multi-languages.

June 27, 2023

Thanks to machine translation, it is possible to indicate articles on the IAPH website in multi-languages by clicking the pull-down menu on the top right of the home page. You can select the following languages, namely Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese (simplified characters), Chinese (traditional characters), English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. If you need additional languages, plea

Jens Meier nominated for IAPH presidency

June 16, 2023

The term of the office of the incumbent IAPH president, Capt K. Subramaniam, will expire on the conclusion of Annual General Meeting held during this year’sIAPH World Ports Conferencein Abu Dhabi. Following a call for self-nominations, Jens Meier, current IAPH vice-president for Europe and CEO of Hamburg Port Authority, came forward as the candidate to succeed Capt. Subra. Jens Meier meets all nomination qualifications set out in the IAPH constitution. All regular and honorary members of IAPH ha

World Ports Tracker Q2 2023 to include UNCTAD data

June 16, 2023

The survey of ports for the IAPH World Ports Tracker covering the second quarter of 2023 has been launched. Ports which respond to the survey will receive the exclusive in-depth report written by the renowned maritime economists Theo Notteboom and Thanos Pallis of our Risk and Resilience technical committee. The confidential survey data shall be analysed and displayed globally and per region on a quarterly basis and is designed to help ports to detect trends early on in vessel calls and cargo ex

IAPH is ready for crucial IMO GHG meetings

June 16, 2023

IMO Member States and NGOs are gearing up for two full weeks of intense deliberations at the 15th meeting of the Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG-GHG 15) and the 8th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80) taking place from 26 June to 7 July. The much-anticipated revision of the IMO GHG strategy is due to be concluded at MEPC 80, with the IMO and delegations under pressure to agree on an overarching reduction target for the sect

Next Africa-Europe Harbor Café to focus on ESI

June 16, 2023

Our next online IAPH Harbor Café for Africa and Europe regions will be held 29 June, focusingon implementing vessel calculation tools and port incentive schemes to reduce emissions. Hosted by Michael Luguje and Jens Meier, our respective IAPH regional vice-presidents for Africaand Europe, we will be conversing with the chairman of theEnvironmental Ship Index (ESI)board Eric van der Schans, who is the environmental director at the Port of Rotterdam. We will also be chatting over a beverage with e

Call for IAPH Women’s Forum Scholarship opened

June 16, 2023

If you are an enthusiastic female worker employed by an IAPH member port, you will be eligible to apply for and benefit from the IAPH Women’s Forum Scholarship, which was established to advance the status of women in the port industry. Please send your application not later than Friday June 30 [email protected]. The winner will be announced at the2023 IAPH World Ports Conference in Abu Dhabi, UAEon 31 October-2 November.Full details can be found here.

Strong IAPH presence at TOC Europe in Rotterdam

June 16, 2023

Records were broken on attendees at this week’sTOC Europeexhibition and conferencein Rotterdam which brings together the world’s terminal operators with materials handling enterprises, digital and network solution providers, terminal automation manufacturers, and a wide range of port community stakeholders. IAPH actively participated as an industry association partner having also done so for TOC Americas in Lima, Peru last year. This included newly joined associate member IKEA Supply AG presenti

Expanding ESI in the Mediterranean

June 16, 2023

IAPH’s Nick Blackmore was at the Union for the Mediterranean’s conference on ‘Greening Maritime Transport in the Mediterranean’, held at SIL Barcelona last week, to promote theEnvironmental Ship Index(ESI). Speaking during a panel on Green Ports, Nick pointed out that the importance of incentive schemes was highlighted in the region’s updated Regional Transport Action Plan – a major focus of the conference. He emphasised that, with several regional ports already on board, ESI stood ready to make