Day One: Thursday, 30 May 2013 |
08h00 |
Registration and welcome coffee |
09h00 |
Special Interest Seminar: Regional Cooperation within the Black Sea and Beyond |
09h00 |
Welcome and keynote speeches: |
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The EU Strategy for the Black Sea - European Commission (invited) |
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Trends in Black Sea port development: |
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Containers: Eero Vanaale, Consultant, Drewry |
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Industry: NN |
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Cruise: Mikhail Sokolov, First Deputy General Manager, Odessa Commercial Sea Port |
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Are Black Sea ports ready to face the future? Panel discussion with: |
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Olena Losevska, Attorney at Law, InterLegal Ukraine |
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Patrick Uyttendaele, Director, MTBS |
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Jean-Paul Siccard, Executive Member of the Board of Directors, Solvay (invited) |
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Sofia Neirynck, Area Manager Eastern Europe, DEME (invited) |
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Maersk Ltd. (invited) |
11h00 |
Coffee |
11h15 |
Opening session ESPO Conference |
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Welcome: |
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Santiago Garcia-Milà, Chairman of ESPO |
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Stefan Neychev, Chairman of Bulgarian Port Infrastructure Company |
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Opening keynote speech: |
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Bulgarian (Deputy) Minister of Transport |
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Economic outlook for Europe, shipping and ports: |
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Syvliane Delcuve, Senior Economist, BNP Fortis Bank (Europe) |
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NN, Boston Consulting Group (shipping) (invited) |
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Prof Dr Theo Notteboom, University of Antwerp ITMMA (ports) |
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Q&A |
13h00 |
Lunch |
14h00 |
Perspectives on cooperative synergies (parallel sessions) |
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- Session A: Integration of ports in infrastructure corridors
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Chair: Isabelle Ryckbost, Director, European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP)
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Cases:
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Ports & TEN-T Corridors
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Christopher North, Head of Unit, TEN-T Executive Agency (invited)
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Greening Corridors
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Manfred Seitz, General Secretary, Pro Danube International (invited)
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Great Axis Rail Networks
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Joan Amorós, Secretary General, Ferrmed (invited)
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- Session B: Marketing and promotion of port regions
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Chair: NN
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Cases:
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Marketing West-Mediterranean Ports
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Mario Caselli, Intermed / Port of Genoa (invited)
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Flanders Port Area
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Nathalie Balcaen, Head of Cabinet Flemish Minister of Mobility (invited)
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Promoting Cruise in the Mediterranean
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Stavros Hatzakos, President MedCruise
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- Session C: Intercontinental strategies of port authorities
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Chair: Larissa van der Lugt, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Cases: in preparation
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15h30 |
Tea |
16h00 |
Port development through regional cooperation: the CEO Perspective |
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Roundtable discussion with: |
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Eddy Bruyninckx, CEO, Port of Antwerp |
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Paolo Costa, President, Port of Venice |
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Johan Röstin, CEO, Copenhagen-Malmö Port (invited) |
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Hervé Martel, CEO, Port of Le Havre |
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Moderator: NN
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17h00 |
Closing keynote speech Day One |
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Markku Mylly, Executive Director, European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) (invited) |
17h30 |
End of the first conference day |
19h30 |
Departure for Conference Dinner
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Day Two: Friday, 31 May 2013 |
08h30 |
Welcome coffee |
09h00 |
EU Ports Policy - setting the scene |
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Port performance indicators Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO |
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Administrative simplification in ports Richard Morton, Secretary General, EPCSA |
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Port labour in Europe Prof. Dr. Eric Van Hooydonk, Portius / University of Ghent |
10h00 |
EU Ports Policy - presentation and evaluation of the new proposals |
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Interactive session with representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament, Member States and EU stakeholder organisations. |
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Further details on structure and speakers to be confirmed subject to the planning of the European Commission.
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12h00 |
Closing keynote address |
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Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Transport (invited) |
12h30 |
Closing of the ESPO 2013 Conference |
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Santiago Garcia-Mila, Chairman, ESPO |
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Magnus Karestedt, CEO, Port of Gothenburg, Host of the ESPO 2014 Conference |
12h45 |
Departure to Varna Passenger Terminal for lunch |
14h00 |
Visit to the Port of Varna
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