{"id":2178,"date":"2022-04-20T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/04\/20\/the-importance-of-short-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:55:15","slug":"the-importance-of-short-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/events-greenport\/the-importance-of-short-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of short sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coastlink 2022 is being hosted by the Port of Antwerp, the second largest port in Europe and an important gateway for short sea services, from 11 to 12 May.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event will focus on building connectivity between short sea shipping and intermodal transport networks through the ports that support the sector.<\/p>\n<p>With short sea and feeder services seeing significant growth opportunities post-Brexit, Coastlink will deliver all the latest developments happening across the industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why attend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/the-conference\/conference-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference programme<\/a> includes presentations and panel debates with headline speakers from Unifeeder, the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) and BIMCO.<\/p>\n<p>Presenters will include the Port of Zeebrugge, Tyne and Rotterdam and short sea shipping line, Fast Group Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Coastlink offers the chance to meet new and existing contacts and to share knowledge and enjoy the networking sessions being held throughout the two-day event.<\/p>\n<p>The complete delegate package includes conference attendance on both days, a place at the conference dinner on the evening of 11 May, the technical visit&nbsp;at the Port of Antwerp in the afternoon of 12 May, the conference handbook and full documentation in electronic format and lunch and refreshments on both days.<\/p>\n<p>Limited spaces remain so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/buy\/2022-delegate-bookings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book your delegate place now online<\/a> or contact Joanna Miller on +44 (0) 1329 825335 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@coastlink.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">info@coastlink.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Coastlink conference is back in person and will focus on building connectivity through ports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[355,421,422,334,356],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-greenport","tag-coastlink","tag-conference","tag-intermodal-transport","tag-port-of-antwerp","tag-short-sea-shipping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}