L’apport de connaissances sur les projets ville-port qui constituent une mine d’expériences et d’expertise à adopter.
Des ports et des villes du monde entier, des expériences de projets à toutes les échelles, des personnalités attachantes…
New practices, new challenges
The biennial World Conferences Cities & Ports are always exceptional events in the life of AIVP. Prepared well in advance and with great enthusiasm, they are an opportunity to mobilise our global network around themes selected for their key relevance to the challenges and projects of today’s port cities. They also bring together the community of AIVP members, active stakeholders in the development of cities and ports, some of whom have been following our work assiduously for over 20 years.
The Port of Quebec, represented by its President & CEO Mario Girard, signed the Port Center missions charter on Friday 24 2016 at the AIVP Days in Malaga. The move reflects the social commitment of the Port of Quebec, which has embarked on a process aimed at improving port culture and awareness among its communities.
Mega-ships: which impacts for port-cities?
This year’s annual general meeting of our association in Malaga will once again be an opportunity to bring together all those with a stake in the sustainable development of port communities. In Malaga we will be debating the issue of mega-ships, not just the shipping behemoths but also the giant cruise liners, which for many of us are a very real manifestation of globalisation, and perhaps of its excesse… Port authorities and local communities need to work together to devise new strategies.
Today AIVP has more than 185 member organisations in 44 countries. Fourteen new members have joined AIVP since January 2016: a very significant step forward in network development for the first half of this year.
Trishala Suresh, an Indian student from Bangalore who is studying in France at the Europe Asia Campus of the Political Sciences Institute “Sciences Po” has joined the AIVP permanent team on a 3-month attachment. Her presence will enable us to develop our network and promote the 15th Rotterdam Conference in India and Asia.
“Insights into the Indian Maritime Industry and Ports in India” by Trishala Suresh
Around forty delegates from AIVP came together in Antwerp for two days of visits and presentations on the theme of city-port-citizen relations. This special event is reserved for AIVP members, providing an opportunity to share feedback and experience on specific topics such as Port Centers and societal integration.
A delegation from the Port Authority of Douala led by Mr Edwin Zibi Ebanga, Head of Department for State Land and Activities Management, visited the offices of AIVP on 30 March 2016. The Port of Douala is faced with congestion issues, and was keen to draw on the expertise of AIVP.
In September 2015 the Port Council of Pasaia gave the green light for the Special Plan for the regeneration of Pasaia Bay. This is no doubt the result of a decision taken as part of the 2015-2025 Strategic Plan for the port to defer the construction of an outer port. The particular configuration of the port of Pasaia inside the bay and its close proximity to different administrative districts and residential areas required a redefinition of port and urban uses in this territory in order to preserve the port’s competitiveness and its future.
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