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08:00   Registration
09:00   Opening by the conference chairman

John Guy
Partner, Merlin Corporate Communications
 
09:05   Welcome

Dick van den Broek Humphreij
Chairman European Shippers Council

 
   

SESSION 1

Forecasting the cargo corridors and trade movements in Europe: 2010 and beyond.  Impacts on ports, terminals, shippers, shipowners and operators 

 

     
09:10   Wando Boeve
Vice-Chairman Deltalinqs
 
09:30   The Container Market and intra-European transport
John Fossey
Director – Container/Liner Shipping, Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd, London

 
09:50   Cargo corridors in 2010 and beyond - Changing Trade Patterns
Dick van den Broek Humphreij
Chairman European Shippers Council
 
10:05   Debate between speakers discussion members and participants

Discussion members:
 
    Jan Buiter
Chairman VRC
Director Cross Ocean BV agent Cosco
President Association of Rotterdam Shipbrokers and Agents

Leonidas Demetriades - Eugenides
Chairman, Niver Lines Shipping Co S.A.

Marco Sorgetti
Secretary General
Clecat
     
10:40   Break
     
   

SESSION 2

Short Sea Shipping: Regulators Perception versus Market Realities

 

     
11:00   Henk Merkus
Deputy Head, Division for Maritime Transport
Dutch Ministry of Transport & Public Works, Netherlands
 
    The Customer’s views
 
11.10   Denis Tual
Logistics Vice President ARKEMA
 
11.20   Joachim Prengel
Senior Vice President Distribution, BASF
 
11.30   Filip Beckers
Transport Procurement Manager – Europe, EU Effem, Masterfoods
 
    The response from operators: Listening to the Customer
 
11:40   Gerard de Groot
Commercial Director, Geest North Sea Lines
 
11:50   Matthias Raith
General Manager, Rail4Chem
 
12:00   Kimmo Nordstrom
Containerships
 
12.10   Arijus Ramonas
M
anaging Director
Kursiu Linija
 
12:20   Discussion
     
12:40   Lunch hosted by: FREIGHT TRADERS

     
   

SESSION 3

Round table: The Intermodal
       
Challenge: - Is infrastructure
        the biggest bottleneck in today’s
        organisation of logistics chains?

 

     
14:00   Debate between panelist and participants
 
    Rolf Johannesson
President, SCA Transforest AB, paper and forest industry, Sweden
 
    Wout Pronk
Managing Director, Geest North Sea Lines
 
    Frank Tazelaar
Head of Logistics, Port of Rotterdam
 
   
 
14:40  

SESSION 4

The European Reality on
        Trade Facilitation and Security

 

     
14:40   How to make European Freight Transport more secure?
Wolfgang Elsner
Head of Unit, Transport of Dangerous Goods and Intermodal Security, European Commission
 
14.50   Innovations in custom procedures
Mats Wicktor
Head of Swedish Customs Future Centre
Swedish Customs Authority
 
15.00   The view from the global container terminal operator on security
Richard C. Pearson
Managing Director
, Hutchison Westports Limited
 
15:10   ISPS Code and implications for shippers
Steven Cox
Global Sea Freight Manager, Heinz & Co Ltd
 
15:20   Operational and commercial impacts of security measures for Short Sea Shipping
Alfons Guinier
Secretary General ECSA
 
15:30   Debate between speakers and participants
     
16:00   Break
     
16:20  

SESSION 5

What shippers require from
liner shipping in the future
and why?

 

     
16:25   Introduction by the Session Chairman
Jane Boyes
Editorial director, Containerisation International
 
    Same Goal Different Approach?
 
16:30   Andrew Traill
Head of Rail Freight, Maritime and Air Cargo Policy, FTA
 
16:40   Ken Sorensen
Executive Director, European Liner Affairs Association (ELAA)
 
16:50   Debate between speakers & participants
     
17:10  

conclusions by the conference chairman
John Guy
Partner, Merlin Corporate Communications

     
17:20   Drinks
     
19:00  

Conference Dinner hosted by the

 

Rotterdam Port Promotion Council (RPPC)

 

The complete conference programme will be published by mid August

We look forward to welcoming you to the Forum in Rotterdam on October 13th.

JANNIS KOSTOULAS
Managing Director
MARE FORUM B.V.
Beurs - World Trade Center
P.O. Box 30027
3001 DA Rotterdam
The Netherlands

T: +31.10.281 06 55 
F: +31.10.270 98 70
kostoulas@mareforum.com

Nicolette van der Jagt
Secretary General
ESC, European Shippers' Council
Rue Wiertz, 50
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium


tel. +32 (0)2 23021 13 
fax: +32 (0)2 230 4140
nicolettevdjagt@europeanshippers.be

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