Following the general celebration of this year’s World Maritime Day at the IMO headquarters in London two weeks ago, the government of South Africa is hosting the World Maritime Day Parallel Event in Durban this week, under the theme ‘New Technologies for Greener Shipping’. Attended by delegates from the South African maritime cluster, the wider African continent and various IMO delegations, the three-day conference is comparing global perspectives on decarbonisation of shipping, collaboration and capacity building, digitalisation for safer and efficient shipping, and blue economy development. IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven was invited by the South African government to attend the event and he will be delivering a presentation this morning on IAPH’s work to foster data collaboration in port and maritime supply chains, increasing the overall resilience of port systems. You can already download his presentation here. Full proceedings of the event will be available from the event website shortly.
Patrick Verhoeven in Durban with IMO SG Kitack Lim and Ghana transport minister Kwaku Ofori Asiamah
