March-April issue of Ports & Harbors is out

The March-April issue of the ‘Vanity Fair’ for port executives is out! This time, the cover story of the only port lifestyle magazine in the world features an exclusive interview with Rebeca Grynspan, the recently appointed secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In conversation with IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven and P&H editor Ines Nastali, the secretary-general outlines her ambitions for UNCTAD as a statistical powerhouse for the maritime trade, and her plans to engage with development banks to create equitable financing opportunities for the port sector. She also talks about ways on improving trade facilitation and the difficult choices facing the industry on financing decarbonisation. Also featuring in this edition: a deep dive into risks associated with climate change and extreme weather and an investigation how digital tools are being deployed to minimise disconnection in ports. We provide insights into Kenya’s single window system as well as its new Lamu port and we look at the evolution of port workers over centuries past as well as future-gazing into the possibility of nuclear-powered merchant vessels. We also asked Frans van Zoelen, long-serving chairman of the IAPH Legal Committee, to look at ports’ legal past, present, and future as our IAPH president pays tribute to his significant contribution to the association.

 

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