Port City Insights: This weekly strategic monitoring service on City Port news is reserved for you as a member of the AIVP
Edition of 16 February 2023
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The AIVP invites you to a webinar with the ports of the Indian Ocean: together we will tackle the question of their resilience facing climate change, which is particularly affecting these islands, but also the challenges connected to the energy transition and to the port-city interface.
Tuesday 28 February 2023 (11:00 – 12:30 CET Western and Central European Time / 13:00 – 14:30 Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte Time / 14:00 – 15:30 Mauritius, La Réunion, Seychelles Time)
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Turkish port cities confronted by the consequences of an earthquake : Mersin leads aid efforts
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck south-eastern Turkey, resulting in the tragic loss of thousands of lives. The images of the port of Iskenderun in flames have shocked the world. Emergency services have been working at the site for several days. The port city of Mersin, 200 km to the west, is playing a key role in dealing with the tragedy, receiving maritime traffic destined for Iskenderun and acting as a hub for accommodating refugees. International aid efforts are being organised, with the maritime sector playing its part. The federation of maritime operators TÜRKLIM has sent equipment to help victims or put out fires. Maersk has donated 1,000 containers transformed into makeshift dormitories. CMA CGM is sending humanitarian supplies by cargo plane. AIVP members, like Dürres (Albania) or Trieste (Italy), serve as logistics hubs for international aid. The AIVP team is at the disposal of the Turkish authorities to plan the reconstruction of the port city of Iskenderun.
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Energy transition and circular economy
The United States is accelerating efforts to decarbonise the country’s ports with en economic paradigm change
The world’s leading economy is set to inject a total of $662 million of investment in port infrastructures in 2023. The unprecedented investment comes on top of other road, rail, and environmental grants provided to ports. The plan, which aims to decarbonise American ports, is all part of the Biden administration’s Green New Deal. Projects supported under the plan include the installation of fast charging stations for port machines and vehicles in Jacksonvilla (Florida), the creation of a multimodal terminal in Kaskaskia (Illinois), and improvements to the power and rainwater networks at the port of Cleveland (Ohio).
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Culture and identity
Learning and dancing on the waterfront of Valparaíso
The port of Valparaíso, Chile, has recently supported two artistic and educational initiatives to raise the cultural profile of the city: the International Festival Valparaíso Tango and the interactive mural that allows to learn about marine species through an app. The 33rd edition of the dancing festival took place in the port authority’s HQ and on the waterfront promenade Muelle Barón, where the future Port Center will be located. The new interactive mural “SuelAR” was inaugurated, on the Torperderas Beach, valorizing the local fauna and the work done by civic organizations to protect the area. This initiative brought together several key actors from different sectors, such as academia, port and heritage conservation. Using their smartphones, visitors will learn about the species inhabiting the coastal system and in the long-term transform this space into a center for recreation, tourism and cultural development.
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Human capital
PULSE: New research will focus on the spatial impact of port clusters
“PULSE – The Port-clUster LandScapE: Developing a Spatial and Design Approach to Port Clusters”, this is the title of the new research project to be led by AIVP expert Dr. Beatrice Moretti, from the University of Genoa, Italy. The research project will study the spatial, urban and architectural impacts related to the clustering phenomenon in contemporary European ports. Dr. Moretti’s main goal is to provide a spatial framework for this phenomenon and to develop a design approach to port clusters including a toolkit of design strategies, lexical categories and multi-level maps aimed at recognizing port clusters as a challenging field for architecture and urban design. PULSE will focus on the spatial impacts of the Ligurian port cluster (ports of Genoa, Savona, Vado Ligure), and compare them with other cases on a more advanced stage (e.g. the Rhine/Meuse Delta). The project will last 2 years and host several events and publications.
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Governance
Málagaport Foundation created to bolster the maritime environment
The Malaga (Spain) Port Authority, City Council, Chamber of Commerce, and other key industry actors have come together to create the Málagaport Foundation. This private non-profit foundation will aim to promote the maritime-port environment as a space of opportunity and as a strategic enclave for blue economy activities such as logistics, tourism, training, innovation, and sustainability. The foundation will work on detecting the needs and challenges of the port community and aim to address them transversally. These solutions will include the application of innovative technology, promotion of trainings, and supporting projects in the port environment. The main beneficiaries will be the entities that make up the Port Community and its hinterland.
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Webinar – Green Ports of the Indian Ocean
AIVP invites you to a webinar discussing the “Green Ports of the Indian Ocean”, on the 28/02/2023, organised in partnership with the Agence Française de Développement and APIOI. The first conclusions of a study carried out for over a year on the greening of ports will be presented to you.
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The World Ocean Summit – The Economist Impact
The World Ocean Summit is an annual global event bringing together the widest cross-section of the ocean community from business and finance to governments, national and international policy-makers, civil society and academia.
The AIVP is a media partner of this event.
You can get avail 20% discount on your registration by using this code: AIVP20.
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Biodiversity
Another initiative launched as part of AIVP’s CSR approach
On 9 February 2023, the AIVP, in collaboration with Carbolocal, committed to a new ecological project to plant hedgerows on agriculture land belonging to a family of farmers in Normandy.
The initiative is entirely in line with our CSR policy and will actively contribute to our climate and biodiversity objectives.
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Climate change
The port of Manzanillo (Mexico) becomes the first in the country to be awarded environmental certification based on carbon neutrality
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Culture and identity
The Olympic flame will arrive in Marseille (France) in 2024, carried from Olympia (Greece) by a delegation of young people from the French city, before embarking on its inaugural tour of the country
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Port City interface
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) has launched a sustainable waterfront redevelopment project to connect with the Red Sea and vitalize the port.
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Sustainable mobility
The Port of Liège (Belgium) will increase its investments in favor of multimodality in 2023, constructing new infrastructure and adapting others.
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Human capital
Port of Long Beach (U.S.A.) is forming the future maritime industry leaders by funding scholarship programs linked to port-related fields.
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Biodiversity
The Port of Tarragona (Spain) has joined the SEAREG project to regenerate biodiversity in the Mediterranean by turning their docks into eco-proactive agents.
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