L'ottava conferenza annuale dell'ESPO si terrà il 5 e 6 maggio a Limassol

Il 5 e 6 maggio prossimi al Four Seasons Hotel di Limassol si terrà l'ottava conferenza annuale dell'European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) organizzata dall'associazione dei porti europei in collaborazione con la Cyprus Port Authority.

Quest'anno l'incontro verterà sui temi della practice e della policy nel settore portuale combinandoli con una revisione dell'attuale quadro della politica europea per i porti.

ESPO ha evidenziato che la performance portuale è un concetto formato da molti aspetti e può riguardare le operazioni portuali e la logistica, le tendenze e la struttura dei mercati, l'ambiente e l'integrazione sociale, l'impatto socio-economico e la governance. L'associazione ha ricordato di essere coordinatrice del progetto PPrism (Port PerfoRmance Indicators - Selection and Measurement), che è cofinanziato dall'Unione Europea. Alla conferenza di Limassol i partner del progetto presenteranno lo stato di avanzamento di PPrism e illustreranno lo sviluppo di un sistema europeo di valutazione delle performance portuali.

Il secondo argomento della conferenza è frutto della decisione della Commissione Europea di prendere in esame nel corso di quest'anno il quadro della politica per i porti. Tale revisione riguarderà lo sviluppo e il finanziamento delle infrastrutture, le concessioni, l'accesso al mercato dei servizi portuali, la modernizzazione, il lavoro portuale e molti altri temi.

Day One: Thursday, 5 May 20
08:30	Special Interest Seminar: Port Development in the East Mediterranean
	Chair: Dr. Thanos Pallis, University of the Aegean
	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
11:00	Official Opening of the ESPO 2011 Conference
	Victor Schoenmakers, Chairman, ESPO
	Chrysis Prentzas, Chairman, Cyprus Port Authority
11:10	Opening Keynote Speech
	Dr. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Minister of Communications and Works, Republic of Cyprus
11:30	Economic Outlook for Ports and Shipping: a Post-recession Analysis
	Chair and introduction: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University New York and Dr. Theo Notteboom, Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp (ITMMA)
	Panel discussion with senior shipping, terminal and logistics operators
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Port Performance: Introduction of the First Conference Theme
	Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO
14:15	Perspectives on Port performance
	Logistics perspective : Walter Van Mechelen, Business Development Director, Gosselin Group / Chairman, Alfaport Antwerp Financial Perspective : Dan Clague, Managing Director, Hawkpoint Societal Perspective : Enrico Musso, Member of the Italian Parliament
15:15	Tea
15:45	Towards a 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
17:00	How should well-performing ports be 'branded' ?
	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

Day Two: Friday, 6 May 2011
08:15	Welcome coffee
08:45	Port Policy Review: Introduction of the Second Conference Theme
	Patrick Verhoeven, Secretary General, ESPO
09:00	Evaluation of the EU policy framework for ports: state of play and way forward
	Interactive session introduced and chaired by Dimitrios Theologitis, Head of Ports Policy, DG Move, European Commission
	Further speakers to be announced
10:30	EU Funding of Seaports: a Performance Analysis
	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 ?
	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
	Chair: Dirk Sterckx, Member of the European Parliament
12:30	Closing keynote address
	Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission / Commissioner for Transport
13:00	Closing of the ESPO 2011 Conference
	Victor Schoenmakers, Chairman, ESPO
	Ryszard Strzyzewicz, President Port of Gdansk and Janusz Jarosinski, President Port of Gdynia, Hosts of the ESPO 2012 Conference
13:15	Closing lunch