Tag: IAPH

The Global Port Hydrogen Coalition held its first meetings from 12 to 14 October. To accelerate low-carbon hydrogen deployment.

The International Association of Ports and Harbours launched its Cybersecurity Guidelines to assist port facilities establish the true financial, commercial and operational impact of a cyber-attack.

IAPH’s outgoing President Santiago Garcia-Milà and his successor Captain Subramaniam Karuppiah, highlighted the essential role of infrastructure in keeping maritime supply chains flowing.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s IAPH World Ports Conference was held from June 21 to June 25, 2021, in a hybrid, mostly digital format.

IAPH published the IAPH-WPSP Port Economic Impact Barometer One Year Report, assessing the impact of COVID-19 on ports in the period April 2020 to April 2021.

It is known that digitalization has taken on a new urgency following COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, BIMCO and other maritime NGOs urge public and private players to help create global digital ISO standards to facilitate the digital exchange of data.

IAPH conducted a survey during October 2020 to all ports concerning the use of data under the FAL Convention and the role of digitalization within the port sector, revealing that the majority of respondents struggle with the mandatory requirement on electronic data exchange.

The International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) signed a contract with the Green Award Foundation to administer and manage the more-than 8,400-strong database of ships and 59 incentive providers already registered on the index.

Following the challenges that shipping industry is dealing with due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) urges industry to pay attention on cyber security investments.

IAPH established a Data Collaboration Technical Committee which agreed four immediate concrete actions in order to support and assist ports in accelerating digitalization as part of the industry call to action.