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#IAPH2022: Canada further relaxes travel restrictions

March 25, 2022

The Canadian government has announced that it willfurther ease travel restrictions from 1 April, with fully vaccinated travellers no longer having to provide a pre-entry COVID-19 test result. All travellers continue to be required to submit their mandatory information inArriveCANvia the free mobile app or website, before their arrival in Canada. Travellers arriving by plane must do so within 72 hours before boarding. IAPH conference delegates needing a Visa to enter Canada, can ask for a letter

#IAPH2022: revitalisation of the IAPH cruise agenda

March 25, 2022

With the return of the cruise season in several world ports, we are revitalising the IAPH cruise agenda as well. We are proud to haveCruise Lines International Association (CLIA) president and CEO Kelly Craigheadas a keynote speaker at the World Ports Conference in Vancouver, who will share her organisation's vision on the new era for cruise shipping, including emerging markets, and how ports can help shaping this vision. The session with Kelly is scheduled for the afternoon of 16 May and will b

#IAPH2022: Asia closes pre-conference workshop series

March 25, 2022

As this Insider gets published the penultimate #IAPH2022 regional pre-conference workshop is underway covering the Middle East, Central and South Asia. The last workshop will be held 29 March, zooming in on the competitiveness of East Asian ports. Our panel of senior experts includes Anne-Sophie Zerlang Karlsen, head of operations for Asia-Pacific at A.P. Møller-Maersk, Roberto Gianetta, chairman of the Hong Kong Liner Shipping Association, Sunny Ho, executive director at the Hong Kong Shippers

#IAPH2022: P&H poll on closing the gaps

March 25, 2022

The regional pre-conference workshops aim to identify gaps in port operations, with the World Ports Conference aiming to #CloseTheGaps and issue a call toaction. To help identifying the main priorities for ports andtheir customers, the next edition of the IAPH membership magazine Ports & Harbors asks which of the suggested focus areas (connectivity and accessibility, port efficiency, cost of cargo shipping, regulatory environment, digitalisation, decarbonisation) do readers consider the most imp

Environmental Ship Index moves to the next level

March 25, 2022

TheIAPH Environmental Ship Index (ESI)is building on its ten years’ success story through the development of ESI version 2.0 that will also be embeddingtheESI at-berth module, which is already under development. The ESI Incentive Providers met on 22 March and reviewed initial proposals for both ESI 2.0 and the at-berth module, while concrete proposals will be presented for consideration by the ESI Stakeholders Assembly held 20 May in Vancouver, in the margins of theIAPH World Ports Conference.

We welcome the Port Authority of Vigo

March 25, 2022

We are pleased to announce that the Port Authority of Vigo in Spain has joined IAPH as a regular member. The port of Vigo is highly specialised in the movement of general cargo, with more than 70% of it being containerised. It also has terminals specialised in ro-ro traffic, ranking among the main Spanish ports in traffic of new vehicles. The port of Vigo furthermore is one of the world’s major fishing ports, both in terms of quantity and quality. As a cruise port, it handlesan average of 160,00

Second IAPH Harbor Café on 29 March

March 25, 2022

The second IAPH Harbor Café willtake place next week on 29 March between 02:00-03:30 pm (CEST). The topics on the Café table includedecarbonisation of ports and supply chains in the regions of Europe and Africa. Jens Meier, IAPH’s vice-presidentforEurope and interim vice-president for Africais inviting members to attend the bi-regional meeting to openly discuss topics of commoninterest, express their views, raise concerns and share solutions in an open, trusting atmosphere. IAPH members are step

Letter from the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority

March 25, 2022

The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) is the state-owned company that administers all ports in the Ukraine. We received a letter from USPA acting CEO Oleksandr Golodnytskyy in which he describes the horrific consequences of the war for Ukrainian people, calling upon us to inform all IAPHmembers about the scale of the humantragedy. He also asks us to support closure of ports tovessels flying the flag of the Russian Federation and/or ownedby companiesaffiliated with the legal entities of the Ru

IAPH delegation attended SELA port network meeting

March 25, 2022

Last week, a delegation of IAPH representatives virtually attended theSixth Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of Logistics Port CommunitiesofSELA, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System. SELA is an intergovernmentalregionalorganisation that groups 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries. IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven participated in the opening session of the meeting whereas IAPH Legal Committee chairman Frans van Zoelen teamed up with associate members Max Bobys (Hudso

IAPH held first workshop in Spanish language

March 25, 2022

Our participation in therecent SELA port network meetingunderlines our efforts to have a stronger presence in the Latin American port landscape. In the same spirit, we decided to hold our regional pre-conference workshop for Central and South America entirely in Spanish. Thanks to our Spanish-speaking communications director Victor Shieh and our partnership withMundoMarítimo, the prime maritime news portal in Latin America, a great session was held on 22 March, under the Chatham House Rule, as a

IAPH attended #TPM22 in Long Beach

March 11, 2022

Last week, IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven attended the2022 edition of TPM, one of the largest maritime events in the world, which is held in Long Beach every year. TPM focuses on trans-Pacific container trade and is primarily a meeting platform for shippers and carriers, as well as ports. The event is organised byIHS Markit, which last week officially merged with S&P Global. In the video below you can find out what Patrick took away from the conference and how it ties in with the 2022

#IAPH2022: an exciting programme awaits

March 11, 2022

With fourfull days of live in person conference programming,#IAPH2022will bring together leading port stakeholders in Vancouver, Canada, to#ClosetheGapsin global seaport competitiveness, setting an agenda to raise the performance of the world’s major port regions. The principal topics addressed at the conference include port performance and supply chain resilience, port innovation to facilitate cargo trade, ports as catalysts of energy transition and port leadership through diversity. The agenda