You will find below the presentations given at the ESPO Conference 2022, which took place in Valencia. Click on the name of the speaker to see his/her presentation.
Moderator of the morning: Isabelle RYCKBOST, Secretary General, ESPO
9.30: Welcome by Aurelio Martínez Estévez, CEO Port Authority of Valencia
Annaleena Mäkilä, ESPO Chair
Opening address
9.50: Rebeca Mariola TORRÓ SOLER, Regional Minister for Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility (on behalf of the Regional Government)
Álvaro RODRÍGUEZ DAPENA President of Puertos del Estado
10.00: Macro-Economic Outlook for Europe
Tim POWER, Managing Director of Drewry
10.30: Energy Transition in an age of fundamental geopolitical change. Ports as energy hubs of the future
Dr. David CRIEKEMANS, Associate Professor in International Politics at the University of Antwerp and teaching global politics and diplomacy at KU Leuven (Belgium), international security at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg (NL), and geopolitics at the Geneva Institute of Geopolitical Studies (Switzerland)
11.30: What is currently happening in the supply chain: what is to be expected, where are the problems and what are the solutions?
David DIERKER, Engagement Manager McKinsey
Managing supply chain risks in a disruptive economic, societal, and geopolitical environment
Dorota JILLI, Senior Underwriter - Mediterranean & C.Europe, TT Club
12.20: Trends in port governance 2022: Presentation of the new ESPO fact-finding study
Anne-Rieke STUHLMANN, Senior Advisor, ESPO
Followed by a reflection on the results with the ports, moderated by Victor SCHOENMAKERS
Algis LATAKAS, CEO Port of Klaipeda
Lieselot MARINUS, Public Affairs Advisor EU, Port of Antwerp-Bruges
Koen OVERTOOM, CEO Port of Amsterdam
Afternoon sessions moderator by Richard BALLANTYNE, Chief Executive British Port Association
14.30: China's new era: Decoupling, dual circulation, and the reshuffling of global supply chains
Jacob GUNTER, Senior Analyst, Merics
15.00: Looking at new horizons
Prospects for Europe's ports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Yann ALIX, General Delegate of the SEFACIL Foundation
Prospects for Europe's ports in Latin-America
Jonas MENDES CONSTANTE, Senior Consultant for the Valenciaport Foundation
16.10: Debate with the ports: China, South America, Africa? Business partners, cooperation partners, or competitors?
Juan Manuel DÍEZ OREJAS, Head of Strategic Planning & Innovation, Port of Valencia
Paolo Emilio SIGNORINI, President of the Port Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea
Steven BOUCKAERT, General Manager at DEME Concessions
Moderator of the day: Rob Heirbaut, EU Correspondent, VRT
09.00: The new energy landscape: Impact and implication for Europe's ports
Presentation of the ESPO-EFIP study
Michiel NIJBOER, Senior Investment Consultant, Royal Haskoning
Perspective of an energy company
Rasmus Nikolaj Due SKOV, Sr. Director, Global Public Affairs & Sustainability Solutions, Ørsted
Perspective of a port
Discussion with Zeno D’AGOSTINO, President of the Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea
Mark DIJK, Manager External Affairs, Port of Rotterdam
Jesper BANK, CCO Port of Esjberg
10.20: Greening supply chains: coalitions of the willing as the way forward
Presentation on the launch of a first Green Corridor
Johan Byskov SVENDSEN, Program Manager: Enabling First Movers, Fonden Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping
followed by a discussion with
Edvard MOLITOR, Head of Sustainability Port of Gothenburg
11.15: Reconciling the climate ambition and a strong European economy
Mark VANHEUKELEN, 'Hors Classe' Adviser and Ambassador at Large for Climate Diplomacy at the European Commission
11.45: How to empower Europe's ports: closing debate with the ports
Gerardo LANDALUCE CALLEJA, Chairman of the Port of Algeciras
Cédric VIRCIGLIO. Strategic Planning Director, HAROPA
Daan SCHALCK, CEO North Sea Port
Ansis ZELTINŠ, CEO Port of Riga
12.15: How to implement Europe's ambitions in a disruptive environment? Closing debate with EU policymakers
Caroline NAGTEGAAL, MEP
Inma RODRIGUEZ, MEP
Jorgen WARBORN, MEP, rapporteur on FuelEU Maritime (online)
Daniel MES, member of the cabinet of European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans
Prof. Kurt BODEWIG, European Coordinator for the TEN-T Motorways of the Sea
13.00: Closing of the ESPO Conference 2022
Annaleena MÄKILÄ, Chair, ESPO
13.10: Announcement ESPO Conference 2023
Robert HOWE, CEO of BremenPorts
