摘要: |
The first real return to face-to-face meetings following a period of COVID -19 -induced video meetings commenced during the final quarter of 2021 when a delegation of IAPH Europe-based members of the Policy and Strategy team went out to Gijon, Spain, to organize the first Spanish version of the Port Endeavor game as part of IAPH's partner UNCTAD's Trainfor-Trade's Management courses. This particular course was training the trainers, namely port executives from several Latin American countries. This included a gameplay of Port Endeavor for the first time, which has been inspired by the World Ports Sustainability Program's database of projects by ports applying the UN Sustainable Development Goals in practice. The session was enthusiastically received, with a 90% plus satisfaction survey result from the participants. One week earlier, IAPH's other Port Endeavor partner, the Antwerp and Flanders Port Training Center (APEC), had already hosted its first ever physical gameplay for its port management course, with delegates enjoying the interaction around simulated sustainable port activities from Eastern Europe, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Since then, UNCTAD TrainforTrade and APEC have been accompanied for gameplays by IAPH's technical and communications directors as well as IMO liaison officer in the Port of Antwerp (by APEC with over five gameplays involving well over 100 participants from around the world), Port of Valencia, Port of Vigo, Nantes Port, and at the 2022 World Ports Conference hosted by the Port of Vancouver. The main single highlight of this year, however, was the IAPH 2022 World Ports Conference, which was organized in partnership with S8P Global and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. It was held as an in-per-son event with over 500 port and maritime professionals hailing from 42 countries. Based on the IAPH core themes of climate and energy, data collaboration, and risk and resilience, together with the traversal theme of innovation, delegates attended keynotes, panel sessions, and fireside chats over a three-day period from 16 to 18 May in Vancouver, Canada. |