In the course of the tenth assembly ESPO anniversary it will be discussed about cooperation and politics for the ports



The assembly anniversary for 2013 of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) will be centralized on the issues of the cooperation and politics for the ports. Next and is organized in collaboration with the Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company.

The topic of the cooperation - it has explained the association of the European ports - will give occasion to discuss in that way the Harbour Authorities, the operators and the parts interested, working together, can favor the development and improve the performances of the harbour field. Specific issues as integration of the ports in the infrastructural corridors, the marketing and the promotion of the harbour regions let alone the intercontinental strategies of the Harbour Authorities will be examined also.

In the course of the tenth assembly ESPO anniversary they will come also examined, as usual, the developments of politics of the European Union for the ports. If all it goes second the forecasts - it has emphasized the association - the conference of this year of the ESPO could constitute the first platform in which the field it will at the market discuss the proposed new about the EU commission in access matter and of transparency that would have to be published in the next few months. Before the conference a seminary will be carried out on the regional harbour cooperation in the Black Sea.

Conference
Conference

Day One: Thursday, 30 May 2013
08h00	Registration and welcome coffee
09h00	Special Interest Seminar: Régional Cooperation within the Black Sea and Beyond
09h00	Welcome and keynote speeches:
	The EU Strategy for the Black Sea - European Commission (invited)
	Trends in Sea Black port development:
	Containers: Eero Vanaale, Consultant, Drewry
	Industry: NN
	Cruise: Mikhail Sokolov, First Deputy General Manager, Odessa Commercial Sea Port
	Åre future Sea Blacks ports ready to face the? Panel discussion with:
	Olena Losevska, Attorney at Law, InterLegal Ukraine
	Patrick Uyttendaele, Director, MTBS
	Jean-Paul Siccard, Executive Member of the Board of Directors, Solvay (invited)
	Sofia Neirynck, Area Manager Eastern Europe, DEME (invited)
	Maersk Ltd. (invited)
11h00	Coffee
11h15	Opening session ESPO Conference
	Welcome:
	Santiago Garcia-Milà, Chairman of ESPO
	Stefan Neychev, Chairman of Bulgarian Port Infrastructure Company
	Opening keynote speech:
	Bulgarian (Deputy) Minister of Transport
	Economic outlook for Europe, shipping and ports:
	Syvliane Delcuve, Senior Economist, BNP Fortis Bank (Europe)
	NN, Boston Consulting Group (shipping) (invited)
	Teacher Dr Theo Notteboom, University of Antwerp ITMMA (ports)
	Q&A
13h00	Lunch
14h00	Perspectives on cooperatives synergies (parallel sessions)
	Session To: Integration of ports in infrastructure corridors Chair: Isabelle Ryckbost, Director, European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) Cases: Ports & TRIES Corridors Christopher North, Head of Unit, TRY Agency Executive (invited) Greening Corridors Manfred Seitz, General Secretary, For Danube International (invited) Great Axis Rail Networks Joan Amorós, Secretary General, Ferrmed (invited)	Session B: Marketing and promotion of port regions Chair: NN Cases: Marketing West-Mediterranean Ports Mario Caselli, Intermed/Port of Genoa jib (invited) Flanders Port Area Nathalie Balcaen, Head of Cabinet Flemish Minister of Mobility (invited) Promoting Cruise in the Mediterranean Stavros Hatzakos, President MedCruise	Session C: Intercontinental strategies of port authorities Chair: Larissa van der Lugt, Erasmus University Rotterdam Cases: in preparation
15h30	Tea
16h00	Port development through regional cooperation: the CEO Perspective
	Roundtable discussion with:
	Eddy Bruyninckx, CEO, Port of Antwerp
	Paolo Costa, President, Port of Venice
	Johan Röstin, CEO, Copenhagen-Malmö Port (invited)
	Hervé Martel, CEO, Port of the Havre
	Moderator: NN
17h00	Closing keynote speech Day One
	Markku Mylly, Maritime Executive Director, European Safety Agency (EMSA) (invited)
17h30	End of the first conference day
19h30	Departure for Conference Dinner

Day Two: Friday, 31 May 2013
08h30	Welcome coffee
09h00	EU Ports Policy - setting the scenes
	Port performance indicators Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO
	Administrative simplification in ports Richard Morton, Secretary General, EPCSA
	Port labour in Europe Prof. Dr. Eric Van Hooydonk, Portius/University of Ghent
10h00	EU Ports Policy - presentation and evaluation of the new proposals
	Interactive session with representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament, Member States and EU stakeholder organisations.
	Further details on structure and speakers to be confirmed subject to the planning of the European Commission.
12h00	Closing keynote address
	Siim Kallas, Vice president of the European Commission, responsible for Transport (invited)
12h30	Closing of the ESPO 2013 Conference
	Santiago Garcia-Mila, Chairman, ESPO
	Magnus Karestedt, CEO, Port of Gothenburg, Host of the ESPO 2014 Conference
12h45	Departure to Vahrn Passenger Terminal for lunch
14h00	Visit to the Port of Vahrn