International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH)

Effectively, the third IAPH World Ports Conference was held in Mexico City in 1959, even though the banner "segunda conferencia trienal" referred to the new frequency of the event following the Los Angeles gathering. Courtesy of some archive digging by our Tokyo colleague Fumiko Yamaji, we can publish all the participants from 65 years ago in an early panoramic photo in black and white. #IAPH70th #IAPH2025

Ahead of the 109th meeting of the International Maritime Organization's Maritime Safety Committee next week at the London headquarters, IAPH's Rhona Macdonald gives a heads-up on the topics being discussed which are relevant to #ports, including joint submissions involving IAPH on #cybersecurity and #illicittrade. IAPH will be attending the meeting and will provide a full report to members on outcomes. For those interested in joining IAPH for 2025, you can find more information here : https://lnkd.in/eFkg2yPK. If you would like an introduction to all the benefits of membership (also if you are not a port) please contact: victor.shieh@iaphworldports.org

For those of you in the Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe timezones, our first edition of the next IAPH Harbor Cafe webinar will take place next week on 3 December. It will feature our IAPH President Jens Meier of Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts, Port of Antwerp-Bruges' Tim Verhoeven, Solomon Islands Port Authority's Eranda Kotelawala (our VP for South East Asia and Oceania), our technical committee chairs Edvard Molitor (Climate and Energy) and Pascal Ollivier (Data Collaboration) and IAPH colleagues Rhona Macdonald and Antonis Michail. To kick off we will get the view from Stefan Krattiger of #IKEASupply on what port priorities are on their agenda for 2025 as beneficial cargo owner. Members have received direct invitations. If you are interested in participating, please, get in touch with fabienne.vanloo@iaphworldports.org

In our upcoming Harbor Cafe on 4 December which is compatible with the Americas timezone, you will hear from both Port of Seattle's Sally del Fierro and Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's Capt. Shri Madiwal alongside numerous experts covering the key topics facing #ports in 2025 based on the areas of interest of the World Ports Sustainability Program. Members will be able to select which topics they would like to handle in detail next year via polls online. Non - members interested in taking part can contact fabienne.vanloo@iaphworldports.org.

In our upcoming IAPH Harbor Cafés on 3 and 4 December, we will be hearing online from Tim Verhoeven, Rhona Macdonald and Capt. Shri Madiwal on the key topics facing #ports next year on #infrastructure and #health #safety and #security. Shri is the vice-chair of the IAPH Risk and Resilience technical committee and VP of Operations and Supply Chain at Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Rhona is our Policy and IMO Liaison Officer as well as Senior Sustainability Advisor at the British Ports Association and Tim is Projects & Policy Manager - Sustainable Shipping at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. Members will receive personal invitations, non members are invited to register their interest by contacting fabienne.vanloo@iaphworldports.org

This iconic image of the IAPH World Ports Conference held in 1955 at the Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California is the first slide you will see in every introductory IAPH presentation as it is remembered as the founding meeting of IAPH. Despite strong encouragement from US representatives, founder Gaku Matsumoto declined to become the first IAPH president, reasoning that Japan should not dominate the association. A selection committee, composed of members from Asia, Europe, and America, appointed Bennett J. Roberts (Canada) as president, John Iwar Dahlin (Sweden) as first vice president, and Ching-wen Chen (China) as second vice president. Fourteen directors were elected, and a board meeting was held, during which it was decided that the central secretariat would be located in Tokyo under the leadership of the first Secretary General, Gaku Matsumoto. #IAPH2025 #IAPH70th

The latest edition of Ports & Harbors is out for our members! We hear from Barbara Scheel Agersnap of Copenhagen Malmö Port in her interview with Patrick Verhoeven on how their port continues to set the pace in #decarbonisation and the green transition as it extends #onshorepower facilities and moves to build a regional ecosystem around carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). To read the interview : https://lnkd.in/ewN5gtW2

IAPH business development director Nick Blackmore gave the association’s perspective at IMO HQ yesterday during the University of Plymouth Cyber-SHIP Lab Symposium on #Maritime #Cybersecurity and #Resilience.   Speaking on an ‘International Perspectives’ panel moderated by Chloe Rowland, Nick highlighted the IAPH Cybersecurity Guidelines for Ports and Ports Facilities as well as the association’s recent FAL and MSC submissions focusing on safeguarding the cybersecurity of the Maritime Single Window and revising guidelines on maritime cyber risk management.   Nick was joined on the panel by Jungo Shibata (NYK Business Systems Europe Ltd), Lars Benjamin Vold (NORMA Cyber), Arthur Piquée-Audrain (Bureau Veritas Group) and Steve Kwan (U.S. Coast Guard). To download the IAPH Cybersecurity Guidelines : https://lnkd.in/ezeUi2Hb Profile photo by International Maritime Organization

Today at #COP29, a side event “#Ports as a Gateway for #Decarbonisation & #Resilience” was co-organised by Port of Baku and High-Level Climate Champions with IAPH and hosted by Azerbaijan at their pavilion. International Maritime Organization's Secretary General, Arsenio Dominguez, opened the event with a keynote address highlighting IMO’s ambitious aim of delivering a package of mid-term measures at MEPC next year, and reflected on the role of ports in facilitating the decarbonisation of shipping. IAPH's technical director Antonis Michail joined him on stage to explain the IAPH decarbonisation toolkit, addressing both mitigation efforts in line with the IMO Ports Resolution, and tackling the resilience, climate adaptation challenges ahead. A copy of Antonis' two-page presentation can be found here: https://lnkd.in/ejY2YVaf For IAPH's report commissioned to MTBS (Maritime & Transport Business Solutions BV) on investment needs in developing countries’ port infrastructure for decarbonisation and adaptation to climate change: https://lnkd.in/extQy-7c #EnvironmentalShipIndex #CEMHubs International Chamber of Shipping #CleanMarineFuels #Audittool #PortReadinessLevel tool for #futurefuels World Ports Sustainability Program COP29 Azerbaijan

IAPH members from Malaysia's Port Klang have teamed up with region shipowners and associations as part of a project with the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network on Port Integrity, including Northport (Malaysia) Bhd