Day One: Thursday, 5 May 20 |
08:30 |
Special Interest Seminar: Port Development in the East Mediterranean |
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Chair: Dr. Thanos Pallis, University of the Aegean
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Introductions by representatives of the Suez Canal Authority and the European Commission |
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- Panel:
- Yiorgos Anomeritis, President and CEO, Port of Piraeus
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Bojan Hlaca, Executive Director, Port of Rijeka
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Yiannakis Kokkinos, CEO, Cyprus Port Authority
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Dov Frohlinger, COO, Israel Ports Authority
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11:00 |
Official Opening of the ESPO 2011 Conference |
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Victor Schoenmakers, Chairman, ESPO
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Chrysis Prentzas, Chairman, Cyprus Port Authority
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11:10 |
Opening Keynote Speech |
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Dr. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Minister of Communications and Works, Republic of Cyprus |
11:30 |
Economic Outlook for Ports and Shipping: a Post-recession Analysis |
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Chair and introduction: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University New York and Dr. Theo Notteboom, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp (ITMMA) |
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Panel discussion with senior shipping, terminal and logistics operators |
13:00 |
Lunch
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14:00 |
Port Performance: Introduction of the First Conference Theme |
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Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO |
14:15 |
Perspectives on Port performance |
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- Logistics perspective : Walter Van Mechelen, Business Development Director, Gosselin Group / Chairman, Alfaport Antwerp
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Financial Perspective : Dan Clague, Managing Director, Hawkpoint
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Societal Perspective : Enrico Musso, Member of the Italian Parliament
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15:15 |
Tea
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15:45 |
Towards a European 'dashboard' of port performance indicators |
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- Interactive Session with the Audience on the Interim Results of the PPRISM Project.
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Introduced and chaired by the PPRISM project partners:
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Dr. Peter de Langen, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Dr. Michael Dooms, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Dr. Theo Notteboom, ITMMA
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Dr. Thanos Pallis, University of the Aegean
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Dr. Chris Wooldridge, Cardiff University
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17:00 |
How should well-performing ports be 'branded' ? |
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Stef Verbeeck, Senior Image Consultant, Verbeeck & Ujvari Image Consultants
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17:30 |
End of the first conference day
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20:00 |
Conference Dinner and visit of the port of Limassol |
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Day Two: Friday, 6 May 2011 |
08:15 |
Welcome coffee
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08:45 |
Port Policy Review: Introduction of the Second Conference Theme |
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Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO
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09:00 |
Evaluation of the EU policy framework for ports: state of play and way forward |
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Interactive session introduced and chaired by Dimitrios Theologitis, Head of Ports Policy, DG Move, European Commission |
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Further speakers to be announced |
10:30 |
EU Funding of Seaports: a Performance Analysis |
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Luc T'Joen, Principal Auditor, European Court of Auditors
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10:45 |
Coffee
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11:15 |
How can EU Policy Stimulate Effective and Efficient Governance of European Ports ? |
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Panel Discussion with: |
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- Yiannakis Kokkinos, General Manager, Cyprus Port Authority
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Paolo Costa, President, Port of Venice
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Ramón Gómez Ferrer, President, Port of Valencia
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Daan Schalck, CEO, Port of Ghent
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Bjarne Mathiesen, CEO, Port of Aarhus
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Richard Everitt, Chief Executive, Port of London Authority
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Chair: Dirk Sterckx, Member of the European Parliament |
12:30 |
Closing keynote address |
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Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission / Commissioner for Transport
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13:00 |
Closing of the ESPO 2011 Conference |
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Victor Schoenmakers, Chairman, ESPO |
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Ryszard Strzyzewicz, President Port of Gdansk and Janusz Jarosinski, President Port of Gdynia, Hosts of the ESPO 2012 Conference
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13:15 |
Closing lunch
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