{"id":1779,"date":"2023-01-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2023\/01\/10\/the-workboat-association-partner-2023-conference\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T13:00:00","slug":"the-workboat-association-partner-2023-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2023\/01\/10\/the-workboat-association-partner-2023-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"The Workboat Association partner 2023 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coastlink Conference is dedicated to the promotion of short sea and feeder shipping services, and the intermodal supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Coastlink 2023 will discuss and debate topics covering the latest market forces, trends and opportunities for short sea and feeder shipping; the new normal in an adapting market; EU-UK trade flows and the need for frictionless trade; growth and resilience in supply chains; and the latest developments in building a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workboatassociation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Workboat Association<\/a> (WA) is the trade, skills, and safety standards association for the workboat industry. With a membership base of over 100 UK and European workboat owners, operators, stakeholders, and professionals, they collectively represent close to 1,000 operational vessels and around 4,500 direct personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Kerrie Forster, CEO commented <strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><strong>Short-sea shipping is quickly becoming one of the \u2018buzz-words\u2019 of the global transport decarbonisation conversation. Building a floating and shore-side infrastructure to support the needs and ambitions of international strategies and target within the planned time-frames requires sharing, learning, investment and leadership. The Workboat Association is proud to support Coastlink 2023, we look forward to helping push the \u2018buzz\u2019 into reality, whilst learning-from and supporting many of our members and their stakeholders who already providing many vital short-sea shipping services.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a supporting association, WA members benefit from a discount on the delegate rate. Further details of the discount can be obtained directly from Kerrie Forster at WA or, the Coastlink events team on +44 (0)1329 825335 or <a href=\"mailto:info@coastlink.co.uk\">info@coastlink.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 delegate packages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conference attendance on 3 &amp; 4 May 2023<\/li>\n<li>Lunch and refreshments on both days<\/li>\n<li>Conference Handbook in electronic format<\/li>\n<li>Place on the technical visit<\/li>\n<li>Place at the conference dinner (Premium Package Only)<\/li>\n<li>Post-event Presentation Download (Premium Package Only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coastlink 2023 is being hosted by Peel Ports \u2013 Liverpool, at the Royal Liver Building on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> &amp; 4<sup>th<\/sup> May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Secure your delegate place at this popular event by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coastlink website<\/a> or contact the Coastlink events team on +44 (0)1329 825335 or <a href=\"mailto:info@coastlink.co.uk\">info@coastlink.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Workboat Association confirm support for the 2023 Coastlink Conference in Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-coastlink"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}