{"id":203,"date":"2018-08-03T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/08\/03\/congress-port-industry-leaders-set-the-scene-for-the-two-day-congress-in-valencia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:09:43","slug":"congress-port-industry-leaders-set-the-scene-for-the-two-day-congress-in-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/08\/03\/congress-port-industry-leaders-set-the-scene-for-the-two-day-congress-in-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress: Port industry leaders set the scene for the two-day Congress in Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderated by Rachel White, CEO Secretariat of International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA), the discussion will be led by six key organisations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isabelle Ryckbost, Secretary General, ESPO<\/li>\n<li>Olaf Merk, Economist, Ports &amp; Shipping, OECD<\/li>\n<li>Arpak Demircan, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Global Ports Holding<\/li>\n<li>Lamia Kerdjoudj Belkaid, Secretary General, Feport<\/li>\n<li>Antonis Michail, Project Coordinator, World Ports Sustainability Programme, IAPH<\/li>\n<li>Alvaro Rodriguez, Technical Director, Puertos del Estado, Puertos del Estado<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Presentations from each organisation will be followed by a round table discussion on global and European priorities and goals, how the port environment can be decarbonised and how green initiatives can have a positive impact on port profit. The discussion will also look at building relationships and finding the right balance between port needs and those of the port\u2019s neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>This opening session will provide delegates with a concise update to recent policy measures and will tackle the issues raised in response to these policies. Make sure you are part of this discussion by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenport.com\/congress\/e-commerce\">booking your place<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, to book a place or to enquire about sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Events team on +44 1329 825335 or email <a href=\"mailto:congress@greenport.com\">congress@greenport.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global port influencers will discuss the future policy implications for ports, liners and terminal operators to kick-off Green Port Congress 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-greenport-congress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}