{"id":9776,"date":"2014-01-14T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2014\/01\/14\/date-change-2-3-september-2014\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:54:11","slug":"date-change-2-3-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia-greenport\/date-change-2-3-september-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Date change: 2-3 September 2014!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The programme will focus on the sustainable development of ports and terminals and also the need for the infrastructure to keep pace with the development of ports together with investment and finance options and initiatives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_div_926177\">\n<p>The 10 sessions at the two day conference will comprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental policy framework\/legislation &#8211; national and international<\/li>\n<li>The driving forces behind the need for expansion in ports and terminals<\/li>\n<li>Investment for port developments: financing green projects, initiatives, challenges<\/li>\n<li>Green initiatives for port and infrastructure planning<\/li>\n<li>Case Studies: Environmental innovations at green port developments<\/li>\n<li>Use of LNG as a marine fuel: bunkering, supply, safety<\/li>\n<li>Improving efficiency and reducing emissions in terminal operations<\/li>\n<li>Improving efficiency and reducing emissions through innovations in the logistics chain<\/li>\n<li>Solutions for and monitoring of terminals: Waste, water and dust<\/li>\n<li>Environmental performance management in ports and terminals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delegates will be welcomed to the event by the Chairman of JNPT, Mr N N Kumar IRS and many of the members of the Conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenportasia.com\/about-the-conference\/advisory-board\">Advisory Board<\/a> will be participating in the event as Session Chairmen. Mr Fer van de Laar, Managing Director, International Association of Ports &amp; Harbors (IAPH) \/ World Port Climate Initiative (WPCI), Bureau Director, will give a keynote presenation on environmental and sustainability progress in regional and international ports and terminals.<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations of note include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Subrata K Behera, Sr Research Analyst, Drewry Maritime Research<\/strong>: Trends for International Shipping 2010-2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Abbhaya Krishna Agarwal, Partner &#8211; Infrastructure &amp; PPP, Ernst &amp; Young<\/strong>: Economic outlook for ports in the South Asia Region<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Anil Gubrele, Senior Consultant, Ports &amp; Logistics Practice, ICF GHK<\/strong>: Financing port infrastructure: Risks, challenges and best practices<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms Seeba Ann Matthew, Consultant Shipping Advisory, DNV GL Singapore<\/strong>: LNG bunkering feasibility studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr N Selvam, General Manager &#8211; Technical, German Express Shipping Agency (India):<\/strong> Green initiatives in inland terminal operations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muhan Cheng, Sustainable Development Section, Taiwan International Ports Corporation<\/strong>: Sustainable water management for a bulk cargo terminal, Hualien Ports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/?a=7737\"> <\/p>\n<p> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/?a=7737\"><\/a><font color=\"#810081\"><a href=\".\/?a=7737\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenportasia.com\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0012\/794676\/GPSA-2014-Conference-Programme.pdf\"><font color=\"#810081\">View the full programme here!<\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenportasia.com\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0012\/794676\/GPSA-2014-Conference-Programme.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenportasia.com\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0012\/794676\/GPSA-2014-Conference-Programme.pdf\"><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenportasia.com\/e-commerce\/GreenPort-South-Asia-2014\">Book your delegate place now and save 20% with the early bird rate!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For further information on any aspect of the conference, please call the events team on +44 1329 825335, email <a href=\"mailto:conference@greenportasia.com\">conference@greenportasia.com<\/a> or contact Mohan Bhambhani, GreenPort India Representative, Tel: +91 91670 14224, email: <a href=\"mailto:partner@gpallp.com\">partner@gpallp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the proximity of the general elections and the likely unavailability of government and ministry employees, the 2nd GreenPort South Asia Conference has been postponed until 2-3 September 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776","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=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9778,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions\/9778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}