19-20 November 2019 | Fira Barcelona Gran Via | Smart City Expo World Congress
Ports are having to react quickly to changes in the shipping supply chain. With lots of mergers and acquisitions in the container industry, and increased growth in the cruise sector, there is steep competition to attract vessels, particularly on popular trade and tourist routes.
In the current climate ports are in an arms race to optimise their offering, increase the number of vessels they can turn around through transparent, efficient systems, and provide facilities for mega ships.
This year Smart Ports Summit Barcelona will be launching at the Smart City World Expo between 19-20 November 2019. Run in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona, the conference will be a meeting point for the entire supply chain to address topics around optimisation of operations and long-term integration of technologies enhancing existing processes and networks.
View the full agenda: http://bit.ly/2InLyim
Join an unparalleled speaker faculty; consisting of major shipping companies, terminals, port authorities and associations to find out how digital ports are becoming a reality through collaboration.
- Lionel Chatelet, VP IT Transformation - Managing Director, CMA CGM
- Chantal Gouka, Digital Lead, Port of Rotterdam
- Piet Opstaele, Innovation Lead, Port of Antwerp
- Jordi Torrent, Strategy Manager, Port of Barcelona
- Eduard de Visser, Director Strategy & Innovation, Port of Amsterdam
- Iris Scheel, Head of Corporate Functions, Member of the Executive Board, Hamburg Port Authority
- Sergio Alda, European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)
- Santiago Garcia-Mila, President, International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH)
Make sure you are involved with delivering the ports of the future. Secure your place at the Smart Ports Summit Barcelona today.
As a member of the IHMA you are entitled to a 20% discount.
All tickets give contain a free access pass to the exhibition area of the Smart City Expo World Congress.
How to claim your discount:
- Contact: Roxanna.Kashfi@informa.com and quote your VIP code: FKT3659IHMA
- Call: Roxanna on +44(0)20 7017 7161
Book online: http://bit.ly/2VhRPBl
Latest News & Events
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has welcomed the commitment of 12 countries to facilitate crew changes and achieve key worker designation for seafarers, following a virtual ministerial summit hosted by the UK Government on 9 July. This step represents significant progress to help resolve a growing crisis facing the maritime industry, and enable hundreds of thousands of stranded seafarers to go home or join ships.
In a joint statement, representatives from 12 countries expressed their deep concern about the current crisis and acknowledged that “the inability of ship operators worldwide to conduct ship’s crew changes is the single most pressing maritime operational challenge to the safe and efficient movement of global trade”.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions and border closures imposed by Governments around the world have caused significant hurdles to crew changes and left hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded onboard ships, or unable to join ships. It is currently estimated that at least 200,000 seafarers worldwide are stranded on ships and require immediate repatriation, and a similar number urgently need to join ships to replace them. This has led to a growing humanitarian crisis, in addition to concerns that seafarer fatigue and mental health issues may lead to serious maritime accidents. There are also concerns about the continuity of the global supply chain.
French container carrier, CMA CGM has announced its intention of launching a new product called Round the Africa (RTA) service to add to and complement the current 31 CMA CGM services already operating to sub-Saharan Africa.
A bit of a misnomer, the service is unique in terms of providing a direct service from Asia to Senegal and Sierra Leone along with best transit times, as well as calls to other selected West African ports.
Dakar is reached weekly from Ningbo in 35 days, from Nansha in 32 days. Freetown (Sierra Leone) is reached in 35 days from Nansha. The service offer to Tema (Ghana) is improved with three weekly departures.
‘Our exporters from West Africa will benefit of excellent transit time and direct service to China. Shanghai is reached in 29 days from Abidjan, 31 days from Tema, 36 days from Freetown and 39 days from Dakar,’ says the line in a statement.
One is left to assume the Round Africa part comes from the ships returning to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope.
Round the Africa service rotation is as follows:
Shanghai – Ningbo – Nansha – Singapore – Malta – Tanger – Dakar – Freetown – Tema – Abidjan – Port Kelang – Shanghai
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