Following the joint OAS-CIP – IAPH forum on port innovation and sustainability last week in Montevideo, Uruguay, the two organizations have placed renewed efforts in re-activating the memorandum of understanding signed between the two entities. The agreement, which has now entered into its twenty first year of validity, focuses on port infrastructure and human capital development with technical and joint event-based cooperation. IAPH Managing Director Patrick Verhoeven (right in picture) paid a recent courtesy visit to Jorge Durán, Secretariat Chief, Inter-American Committee on Ports (left in picture) at the OAS headquarters in Washington D.C. in April to discuss further activities, including the planned OAS-CIP participation later this year at the IAPH World Ports Conference. The successful forum, which covered a wide range of tools developed by IAPH in the fields of energy transition, digitalization and resilience, will be rolled out in future joint workshops in the region. OAS – CIP, in collaboration with IAPH regional development director Guimara Tuñón Guerra, has become IAPH’s key collaborating partner in Central and South America.
