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Port City Insights: This weekly strategic monitoring service on City Port news is reserved for you as a member of the AIVP

Edition of October 31, 2024

 
Port City Insights: This weekly strategic monitoring service on City Port news is reserved for you as a member of the AIVP
 

AIVP’s Cities and Ports World Conferences are flaghip events that bring together key players in the port and urban world. These conferences provide a unique platform for sharing best practices, exploring emerging trends and discussing the common challenges facing modern port cities. Each edition of the AIVP Cities & Ports World Conferences focuses on crucial topics such as integrated urban management, sustainable development of port cities, technological innovation, city-port connectivity, and much more. See you this year in Lisbon, Portugal, from November 27 to 29, 2024. Open docks: When flows connect citizens, port cities and the planet

 
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Weekly Features

 
Green energy booming in ports globally
 
Energy transition and circular economy
 
Green energy booming in ports globally

More and more port businesses are making the switch to green energy. One example is “WT Terminal” at the Port of Riga (Latvia), which has installed 220.8 kW of solar panels to meet part of its electricity needs. Other plans are in the pipeline, including a large solar farm and a geothermal power plant. Meanwhile, the first floating solar units are due to be installed at Hollandse Kust Noord, the biggest offshore solar farm in the North Sea. They have been delivered to the Port of Amsterdam (Netherlands), incorporating solar, wind, and hydrogen-based solutions. Finally, Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux (France) has signed agreements to create a secure lorry park in Bassens, equipped with 6,930 solar panels.

 
Lien   Freeport of Riga
Lien   CrossWind
Lien   OffshoreWind
Lien   Bordeaux Port
Pedestrianisation continues at Bastia’s Old Port
 
Culture and identity
 
Pedestrianisation continues at Bastia’s Old Port

The third and final phase of the redevelopment of the Old Port in Bastia, Corsica (France) got underway in October 2024. The project will see the 70-space car park opposite the port turned into a 4,000 m² pedestrian precinct with greenery. Access to the quays from the new “oasis” will now be on a single level, ensuring it is easier for pedestrians to reach the lower area of the port. The €8 million aims to improve the quality of life for local residents, including by moving traffic away from the historic city centre. The work will be completed in spring 2025.

 
Lien   Bastia.corsica
Lien   France bleu
An educational barge on the Mississippi showcases river-based careers
 
Human capital
 
An educational barge on the Mississippi showcases river-based careers

The Mississippi River Institute (USA) is a barge specially built by Living Lands and Water to educate young people about career opportunities on the Mississippi River. It is the association’s third educational barge. The first was launched in 2002 to educate teachers, while a second followed in 2012, to teach students about the importance of protecting nature and water quality. This latest addition to the Living Lands and Water fleet, devoted to marine career development for high school students, is now six months old. The barge can accommodate up to 30 students at once and spends nine months out of the year travelling along the river, stopping in cities including Memphis, St. Louis, and St. Paul.

 
Lien   The Waterways Journal
Dedicated bus lane for port workers in Antwerp
 
Sustainable mobility
 
Dedicated bus lane for port workers in Antwerp

To help port workers get around more easily while at the same time tackling congestion and pollution, the Flemish highways agency and a construction firm in Antwerp (Belgium) recently opened a dedicated bus lane on the A12 motorway for collective employee transportation. More than 630,000 journeys of this kind are made in the Antwerp-Waes port zone every year. A special lane was created during motorway roadworks, to allow buses to beat traffic jams. The highways agency worked in collaboration with the construction firm, the public transport operator, and the local chamber of commerce. Since the lane opened in June 2023, shaving between 10 and 20 minutes off daily journey times, certain bus routes have seen a rise in passenger numbers.

 
Lien   Flows
How greening the shipping industry can protect biodiversity
 
Biodiversity
 
How greening the shipping industry can protect biodiversity

The ocean was at the heart of the discussions of the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP16), which took place in Cali (Colombia) from the 21st of October until the 1st of November. It is linked to the targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and achieving these will be heavily dependent on the sustainable transition of the shipping industry. This includes greening fleets, cutting emissions, managing ballast water, reducing and recycling wastewater, rethinking supply chains, upgrading port infrastructure, and promoting more eco-friendly ship designs. The IMO has advocated for many of these changes progressively. Addressing the remaining challenges will require collaboration between multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, the UN, governments, and also port-cities and the shipping industry.

 
Lien   The City Paper Bogota
 

AIVP News

 
AIVP joins the Tourism Innovation Summit in Seville
 
Health and life quality
 
AIVP joins the Tourism Innovation Summit in Seville

AIVP, represented by Dr. José Sánchez, joined the panel focusing on sustainable cruise ports and the city-port connection on Friday 25th of October.

 
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At a Glance

 
 
Energy transition and circular economy
 
An 80 km inland waterway shipping trial in Nouvelle-Aquitaine (France) aims to move cargo from trucks to barges, easing road traffic and lowering carbon emissions
Lien   France bleu
Lien   LikedIn
 
 
Energy transition and circular economy
 
The ports of Shanghai (China) and Hamburg (Germany) sign a deal to establish a green shipping corridor at the 2024 North Bund Forum
Lien   Ports Europe
Lien   PR Newswire
 
 
Port culture
 
Port of Lisbon (Portugal) celebrates its 137th birthday with a complete cultural program including concerts, regattas, and helicopter tours
Lien   Port of Lisbon
 
 
Governance
 
The ports of Saguenay and Sept-Iles (Canada) sign the St. Lawrence ports agreement (joining Montreal, Quebec City and Trois Rivières) to promote competitiveness and cooperation
Lien   Port de Saguenay
 
 
Energy transition and circular economy
 
Balearic Islands Port Authority (Spain) installs a green hydrogen fuel cell to supply electricity to maritime station no. 4 in Palma
Lien   Green Hysland Project
 
 
Energy transition and circular economy
 
Tuvalu and the 6PAC+ Alliance call for the IMO to implement a mandatory carbon levy of $150 per ton of shipping emissions
Lien   Inside Climate News
 
 
 
 

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