TRAINFORTRADE’s Port Management Week in Las Palmas has gathered 90 port professionals to discuss and share knowledge. The week started on Tuesday with a brainstorming workshop on digital port management. After the opening ceremony on the afternoon participants had a change to visit the Port of Las Palmas, which is the second biggest port in…
More than 80 port professionals from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean will gather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from 10-13 May 2022 to discuss about port management and UN Sustainable Development Goals. UNCTAD TRAINFORTRADE Port Management Week serves as a global coordination meeting of the three language-based networks (English, French,…
TRAINFORTRADE’s special course Building Port Resilience Against Pandemics (BPR) has reached already more than 2800 participants from 138 countries and areas. The satisfaction rate of the third course session in March 2022 hit a record of 96.7%! The third session was organised in English, French and Spanish with dedicated digital material, platforms and support from…
Ports from Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland recommitted on 7 April their support to UNCTAD’s programme helping ports in developing countries boost productivity and efficiency. The Dublin Port Company, the Port of Cork Company and Belfast Harbour signed a new 4-year agreement with the UN body, renewing their partnership…
El Taller sobre los retos de los puertos del Siglo XXI del Programa de Gestión Portuaria/TRAINFORTRADE de la UNCTAD conjuntamente organizado con la Administración General de Puertos y el apoyo de las Autoridades Portuarias de Valencia y Gijón, y se llevó a cabo del 9 al 11 de marzo de 2022 en la Ciudad de…
The strategies used by ports to remain operational throughout the COVID-19 pandemic provide useful lessons for policymakers and port communities. UNCTAD’s new Policy Brief document (UNCTAD Policy Brief No. 93) presents policy recommendations based on port communities’ practical experience and the strategies they employed to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and support their staff and…
Dans le cadre des activités du réseau francophone du programme de gestion portuaire TrainForTrade, les stagiaires de la 4e promotion de la communauté portuaire d’Abidjan ont suivi avec succès l’intégralité des huit modules du cours sur la gestion moderne des ports des mois de juillet 2019 à janvier 2022. Avec l’encadrement d’un expert portuaire local…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused diverse impacts and challenges for port communities, both on performance during the pandemic, and on strategic perceptions of the future. The pandemic reduced substantially the volume of trade through ports worldwide. Looking at the median value for the ports reporting to the Port Performance Scorecard, in 2020 the volumes of…
TrainForTrade held a coordination meeting with the Spanish-speaking Network of the Port Management Programme in Gran Canaria on 16–17 November. Senior port managers from Peru, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Gijón and Valencia analyzed the feedback of their port training actions in 2021 and prepared their agenda for 2022. The Port Authority of Las Palmas (APLP)…
A new role game ”Port Endeavor” helps port communities come up with solutions to make their ports more resilient and compliant with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Twenty senior port managers from Latin America and the Caribbean exchanged knowledge and experiences by playing the role game during a workshop organized by TrainForTrade’s Port Management Programme…