Day One : Thursday, 5 May 20 |
08:30 |
Émission spéciale 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 |
| - 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
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11:00 |
Official Opening of the ESPO 2011 Conference |
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Victor Schoenmakers, Président, ESPO |
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Chrysis Prentzas, Président, Cyprus Port Authority |
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 : à 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 |
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 |
| - Logistics perspective : Walter Van Mechelen, Business Development Director, Gosselin Group/Président, Alfaport Antwerp
- Financial Perspective : Dan Clague, Managing Director, Hawkpoint
- Societal Perspective : Enrico Musso, Member of the Italian Parliament
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15:15 |
Tea |
15:45 |
Towards à 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
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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 |
17:30 |
End of the first conference day |
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 |
08:45 |
Port Politique Review : Introduction of the Second Conference Theme |
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Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO |
09:00 |
Evaluation of the EU policy framework for ports : étées of play and way forward |
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Interactive session introduced and chaired by Dimitrios Theologitis, Head of Ports Politique, DG Move, European Commission |
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Further speakers to be announced |
10:30 |
EU Funding of Seaports : à Performance Analysis |
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Luc T'Joen, Principal Auditor, European Court of Auditors |
10:45 |
Coffee |
11:15 |
How can EU Policy Stimulate Effective and Efficient Governance of European Ports ? |
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Panel Discussion with : |
| - Yiannakis Kokkinos, General Manager, Cyprus Port Authority
- Paolo Costa, President, Port of Venice
- Ramón Gómez 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
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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 |
13:00 |
Closing of the ESPO 2011 Conference |
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Victor Schoenmakers, Président, ESPO |
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Ryszard Strzyzewicz, President Port of Gdansk and Janusz Jarosinski, President Port of Gdynia, Hosts of the ESPO 2012 Conference |
13:15 |
Closing lunch |