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IAPH Harbor Café showcases ESI with guests MSC

July 14, 2023

Two weeks ago to the day the most recent, highly popular IAPH Harbor Café took place online on the implementation of vessel calculation tools and port incentive schemes to reduce emissions. Ports from across the African and European continents took part alongside the African Development Bank and special guests MSC who provided the audience with insights on their experience as the largest user of theIAPH Environmental Ship Index. With interactive exchanges between regular and associate members

Countdown begins to #IAPH2023

July 14, 2023

With just over three and-a-half months to go until the IAPH World Ports Conference in Abu Dhabi, attendance figures are already heading towards the two hundred mark. We look forward to gathering the world’s port communities together with shipowners, regulators, financial institutions, global shippers such as IKEA and Cargill as well as energy ministers and corporations as we look at #ReinventingPorts to meet the demands of the new energy transition, accelerating digitalisation and enhancing port

Welcome! UK Hydrographic Office from the United Kingdom

July 10, 2023

We are pleased to announce that UK Hydrographic Office has joined the IAPH as an associate member. UK Hydrographic Office is an executive agency of the UK Government producing a global portfolio of ADMIRALTY charts, publications, and digital services for use by mariners for safe and compliant navigation. For more information, please visit the following website. https://www.admiralty.co.uk/

Welcome! Port of Oakland from the United States

July 05, 2023

We are pleased to announce that the Port of Oakland has joined the IAPH as a regular member. The Port of Oakland was established in 1927 on the East shore of San Francisco Bay. In the late 1960s, it was the first major port on the West Coast to build terminals for container ships. It has served as Northern California's principal ocean gateway for international containerized cargo shipments. Today, it is one of the ten busiest container ports in the U.S. For more information, please visit t

Welcome! Heraklion Port Authority SA from Greece

June 30, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Heraklion Port Authority SA has joined the IAPH as a regular member. The port of Heraklion is located in the center of the north side of Crete island in the Mediterranean Sea. Heraklion Port Authority SA is a state-owned company. It aims to exploit, manage, operate, and use the port of Heraklion and any space within the boundaries of its land and sea area to benefit the public interest, the national and local economy, and the port users. The company seeks to tr

Deadline Extended: IAPH Women’s Forum Scholarship (2023-2025)

June 30, 2023

To provide more applicants with an opportunity to apply, we have decided to extend the deadline, IAPH Women’s Forum (Chaired by MSc. Flor Pitty) has extended the deadline for two weeks for the following scholarship application to Monday, July 17, 2023: Please find the link below for the detail. IAPH Women’s Forum Scholarship 2023-2025

IAPH presented port decarbonisation initiatives at IMO

June 30, 2023

On Monday this week, IAPH held a lunchtime session on the progress to date with the implementation of the IMO Resolution on the Voluntary Cooperation Between the Port and Shipping Sectors to Contribute to Reducing GHG Emissions from Ships, commonly referred to as the ‘IMO Ports Resolution’. The session was organised as part of the deliberations of the IMO Intersessional Working Group on the Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG-GHG 15), which is taking place this week, ahead of the 80thIMO

Clean Marine Fuels checklists for methanol published

June 30, 2023

The IAPH Clean Marine Fuels (CMF) working group has just completed work on developing safety tools for methanol and other alcohol-based fuels as a marine fuel with a total of seven safety bunkering checklists for both ship-to-ship and truck-to-ship transfer scenarios.The working group is chaired by Peter Alkema of the Port of Amsterdam and its safety workstream is coordinated by Cees Boon of the Port of Rotterdam, alongside leading experts from member ports. The group's experience gained over th

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

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