8a ESPO European Sea Ports Organisation Conference 5 / 6 May 2011 Limassol / Cyprus Port Authority practice & policy in Euro Med Port

8a ESPO European Sea Ports Organisation Conference 5 / 6 May 2011 Limassol / Cyprus Port Authority practice & policy in Euro Med Port

• Four Seasons Hotel di Limassol 8a Conferenza Annuale di European Sea Ports Org. (ESPO) org da Ass Porti Europei in collab. con Cyprus Port Auth.

2011 Conference Tema practice e policy nel settore portuale quadro della Politica Europea per i Porti.

• ESPO ha evidenziato che la performance portuale θ un concetto formato da molti aspetti e puς riguardare le Operazioni Portuali, Logistica, tendenze e struttura dei Mercati, Ambiente e integrazione sociale, impatto socio-economico e Governance.

L'Associazione ricorda di essere coord. del progetto PPrism (Port PerfoRmance Indicators - Selection and Measurement), cofinanziato da Unione Europea.
• Alla conferenza di Limassol i partner del progetto presentano lo stato di avanzamento di PPrism e illustrano lo Sviluppo del Sistema Europeo di valutazione delle Performance Portuali.

• 2° argomento della conferenza θ frutto della decisione della Commissione Europea di prendere in esame nel corso del 2011 il quadro della Politica per i Porti. • Tale revisione riguarda lo sviluppo e il finanziamento delle infrastrutture, le concessioni, l'accesso al mercato dei servizi portuali, la modernizzazione, il Lavoro Portuale ed altri temi.


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/////////////// CONFERENCE PROGRAMME /////////////////

• Day One: Thursday, 5 May 2011
Special Interest Seminar: Port Development in the East Mediterranean
Chair: Dr. Thanos Pallis, University of the Aegean
Introductions by representatives of the Suez Canal Authority and the European Commission

Panel: Yiorgos Anomeritis, President and CEO, Port of Piraeus
Bojan Hlaca, Executive Director, Port of Rijeka
Yiannakis Kokkinos, CEO, Cyprus Port Authority
Dov Frohlinger, COO, Israel Ports Authority

• 11:00 Official Opening of the ESPO 2011 Conference
Victor Schoenmakers, Chairman, ESPO

Chrysis Prentzas, Chairman, Cyprus Port Authority 11:10

///// Opening Keynote Speech /////
Dr. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Minister of Communications and Works, Republic of Cyprus 11:30

//// • Economic Outlook for Ports and Shipping: a Post-recession Analysis

Chair and introduction: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University
New York and Dr. Theo Notteboom, Inst. of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp (ITMMA)

Panel discussion with senior shipping, terminal and logistics operators

14:00 ///// Port Performance: Introduction of the First Conference Theme
Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO /////

///// • 14:15 Perspectives on Port performance • /////
• Logistics perspective : Walter Van Mechelen, Business Development Director, Gosselin Group / Chairman, Alfaport Antwerp
Financial Perspective : Dan Clague, Managing Director, Hawkpoint
Societal Perspective : Enrico Musso, Member of the Italian Parliament

15:45 Towards a European dashboard of port performance indicators

Interactive Session with the Audience on the Interim Results
of the PPRISM Project
Introduced and chaired by the PPRISM project partners:
Dr. Peter de Langen, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Dr. Michael Dooms, Vrije Universiteit BRUSSEL
Dr. Theo Notteboom, ITMMA
Dr. Thanos Pallis, University of the Aegean
Dr. Chris Wooldridge, Cardiff University
17:00 • How should well-performing ports be branded ?
Stef Verbeeck, Senior Image Consultant, Verbeeck & Ujvari Image Consultants

17:30 - End of the first conference day

• 20:00 Conference Dinner and visit of the port of Limassol

• Day Two: Friday, 6 May 2011
Port Policy Review: Introduction of the Second Conference Theme
• Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO

09:00 Evaluation of the EU policy framework for ports: state of play and way forward
Interactive session introduced and chaired by Dimitrios Theologitis, Head of Ports Policy, DG Move, European Commission
• Further speakers to be announced

10:30 EU Funding of Seaports: a Performance Analysis
Luc T'Joen, Principal Auditor, European Court of Auditors
11:15 How can EU Policy Stimulate Effective and Efficient Governance of European Ports ?

Panel Discussion with: • Yiannakis Kokkinos, General Manager, Cyprus Port Authority
• Paolo Costa, President, Port of Venice
• Ramσn Gσmez Ferrer, President, Port of Valencia
• Daan Schalck, CEO, Port of Ghent
• Bjarne Mathiesen, CEO, Port of Aarhus
• Richard Everitt, Chief Executive, Port of LONDON Authority
Chair: Dirk Sterckx, Member of the European Parliament

12:30 Closing keynote address
• Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission /
Commissioner for Transport

13:00 Closing of the ESPO 2011 Conference
• Victor Schoenmakers, Chairman, ESPO
• Ryszard Strzyzewicz, President Port of Gdansk and Janusz Jarosinski,
President Port of Gdynia, Hosts of the ESPO 2012 Conference

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