With the return of the cruise season in several world ports, we are revitalising the IAPH cruise agenda as well. We are proud to have Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) president and CEO Kelly Craighead as 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 be followed by a panel discussion with port executives on the role of port authorities as interfaces between cruise lines and destinations, building partnerships with local communities and investing in sustainability. On 19 May afternoon we plan a brainstorm meeting on the agenda of the IAPH Cruise Committee, which has been dormant for a couple of years now. Finally, work is progressing nicely on the ‘emissions at berth’ module of the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) which will initially focus on cruise shipping and is developed by major cruise ports in partnership with CLIA (read further about ESI in this edition of Insider).
