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European Sea Ports Organisation v.z.w./a.s.b.l.

About ESPO

Membership

 

ESPO membership consists of port authorities, port administrations and port associations of the seaports of the European Union and Norway. The organisation is furthermore open to observer members from countries neighbouring the EU.

The membership structure is organised on national level and finds its reflection in the General Assembly of the organisation where each member country has three official delegates with voting rights (and in some instance official proxies) and neighbouring countries have one observer delegate each. Each member country also has a formal delegate in the Executive Committee, which is the daily policy-making body of the organisation.

Chairman and Vice-Chairmen

The General Assembly elects a Chairman and two Vice-Chairmen for a mandate of two years. For the period 2012-2014 these are:

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Julian Skelnik

Santiago Garcia-Milà
Chairman
(Spain)

Santiago Garcia-Milà is Deputy Director General

of the Barcelona Port Authority

Eamonn O’Reilly
Vice-Chairman
(Ireland)

Eamonn O’Reilly is Chief Executive

of the Port of Dublin

Julian Skelnik
Vice-Chairman
(Poland)

 Julian Skelnik is Director-Strategic Marketing

of Port of Gdansk Authority

Membership overview

Country National Port Entity General Assembly Representative Executive Committee Representative
Belgium None Eddy Bruyninckx (Port of Antwerp) Patrick Van Cauwenberghe (The port of Bruges-Zeebrugge)
Joachim Coens (Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge)
Daan Schalck (Port of Ghent)
Bulgaria Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company

Stefan Neychev (Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company)

Miroslav Petrov (Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company)

Stefan Neychev (Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company)

Vladimir Todorov (Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company)

Cyprus Cyprus Ports Authority Anthia Klerides (CPA) Yiannakis Kokkinos (CPA)
Yiannakis Kokkinos (CPA)
Demetris Phellas (CPA)
Chrysis Prentzas (CPA)
Denmark Danish Ports

Bjarne Loef Henriksen (Danish Ports)

Bjarne Loef Henriksen (Danish Ports)

Uffe Steine Jensen (Danish Ports)
Bjarne Mathiesen (Port of Aarhus)
Peter Jens Peters (Associated Danish Ports)
Estonia None Ain Kaljurand (Port of Tallinn) Allan Kiil (Port of Tallinn)
Allan Kiil (Port of Tallinn)
Sven Ratassepp (Port of Tallinn)
Finland Finnish Port Association

Annaleena Mäkilä, (Finnish Port Association)

Annaleena Mäkilä, (Finnish Port Association)

Henry Lindelöf (Finnish Port Association)
Heikki Nissinen (Port of Helsinki)
France Union des Ports de France (UPF)

Geoffroy Caude (UPF)

Patrick Fourgeaud (CCI de la Côte d’Opale)

Christine Cabau Woerhel (Grand Port Maritime de Dunkerque)

Geoffroy Caude (UPF)

Hervé Martel (Grand Port Maritime du Havre)

Jean-Claude Terrier (Grand Port Maritime de Marseille)

Philippe Deiss (Grand Port Maritime de Rouen)

Germany None

Bettina Linkogel (Ministry of Economics and Ports - Bremen)

 

Bernhard Zampolin (Hamburg Port Authority)

Burkhard Müller (Ministry of Economy, Work and Transport - Lower Saxony)

Jens Zingler (Ministry of Economy - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Bernhard Zampolin (Hamburg Port Authority)
Bernd Unger (Ministry for Economy, Labour and Transport - Schleswig-Holstein)
Greece Hellenic Ports Association (ELIME)

George Kastellanos (Hellenic Ports Association – ELIME)

George Anomeritis (Piraeus Port Authority)

Stavros Hatzakos (Piraeus Port Authority)

Stylianos Aggeloudis (Thessaloniki Port Authority)

 

George Anomeritis (Piraeus Port Authority)

E. Michaelidis (Thessaloniki Port Authority)

Kostas Platikostas (Patras Port Authority)

Ireland Irish Ports Association Eamonn O'Reilly (Dublin Port)

Eamonn O’Reilly (Irish Ports Association)

Brendan Keating (Port of Cork Company)
Enda Connellan (Irish Ports Association)
Italy

Associazione Porti Italiani (Assoporti)

Luigi Merlo (Assoporti)

Luigi Merlo (Assoporti)

Paolo Ferrandino (Assoporti)

Oliviero Giannotti (Assoporti)

Latvia None Irina Gorbatikova (Freeport of Riga Authority) Leonids Loginovs (Freeport of Riga Authority)
Leonids Loginovs (Freeport of Riga Authority)
 
Lithuania None Arvydas Vaitkus (Klaipéda State Seaport Authority)

Arvydas Vaitkus (Klaipéda State Seaport Authority)

Adomas Alekna (Klaipéda State Seaport Authority)

Malta Transport Malta Jason Bongailas (Transport Malta) David Bugeja (Transport Malta)
David Bugeja (Transport Malta)
NN
Netherlands None Dertje Meijer (Port of Amsterdam) Wilko Tijsse Claase (Port of Amsterdam)
Hans Smits (Port of Rotterdam)

Hans van der Hart (Zeeland SeaPorts)

Norway Norwegian Ports

Arnt-Einar Litsheim (Norwegian Ports)

Arnt-Einar Litsheim (Norwegian Ports)
Ingvar M. Mathisen (Port Authority of Bodø)

Dag H. Sem (Port of Oslo)

Poland None

Ryszard Strzyzewicz (Port of Gdansk)

Julian Skelnik (Port of Gdansk)
Janush Jarosinski (Port of Gdynia)

Jaroslaw Siergiej (Port of Szczecin-Swinoujscie)

Portugal APP - Association Ports of Portugal (APP)

Luis Marques (Association Ports of Portugal)

Luis Marques (Association Ports of Portugal)

João Matos Fernandes (APP) Luis Marques

Lidia Sequeira (APP - Association Ports of Portugal)
Romania None

Decebal Serban (National Company “Maritime Ports Administration” SA Constantza)

 

Decebal Serban (National Company “Maritime Ports Administration” SA Constantza)

NN

NN
Slovenia Luka Koper Tomaz Jamnik (Luka Koper) Boris Jerman (Luka Koper)
Boris Jerman (Luka Koper)

NN
Spain Puertos del Estado

José  Llorca (Puertos del Estado)

Javier Gesé Aperte, (Puertos del Estado)

Manuel Morón (Port of Algeciras Bay)

Ramón Gomez-Ferrer Boldova (Port Authority of Valencia)
Sweden Ports of Sweden Mikael Castanius (Ports of Sweden) Mikael Castanius (Ports of Sweden)
Lennart Pettersson (Copenhagen Malmö Port AB)

Magnus Karestedt (Port of Göteborg)

United Kingdom British Ports Association / UK Major Ports Group Richard Bird (UK Majors Ports Group) Richard Bird and David Whitehead (alternate)
Paul Davey (Port of Felixstowe)
Richard Ballantyne (British Ports Association)
David Whitehead (British Ports Association)
Observers Members
Albania None Emanuela Hysenllari  
Croatia Croatian Ports Association Bojan Hlaca (Port of Rijeka Authority)  
Iceland Associated Icelandic Ports - AIP Gisli Gislason (Associated Icelandic Ports - AIP)  
Israel Israel Ports Company Dov Frohlinger (Israel Ports Company)