Highly inspired by the airport CDM council, the PortCDM council aims to establish the necessary overarching guidelines, processes and procedures to make PortCDM a successful international concept to improve maritime transport as it relates to port operations and ports interaction with ships.
The focus of PortCDM is locally driven, given that port operations may be vastly different between individual ports. STM has said that it should be developed with local stakeholders but noted that “ports are hubs within the international maritime trade context and cannot be looked separately”.
It added that it is “essential” that a common framework is defined which “allows for greater customisation to meet each port’s specific needs” and “provides enough standardisation that ships can move from port to port and best utilise the different implementations of PortCDM”.
Ports and shipping stakeholders are expected to meet virtually at the end of March for an inauguration meeting for PortCDM council, and to define the next steps in order to fully establish the council.
Seats have also been reserved for major ports globally.
