Dublin to host Coastlink's fourth Annual Conference
2007
A Coastlink conference organised in association
with the Irish Maritime Development Office
Venue: The Guinness Storehouse, St James's Gate,
Dublin 8 26-27 June 2007
Coastlink has announced that its 2007 annual
conference will be held in Dublin on 26 & 27 June. The venue will be the
Guinness Storehouse and for the first time, there will be an associated
exhibition area.
Although the conference is being held in Ireland the
overall theme will be based on Europe-wide concerns and solutions.
Programme details will be available later but sessions
are expected to include the prospect of increasing port congestion, how ports
respond to dwell time and the handling of empties when capacity is at a
premium, and the recurring issue of feeders being denied prompt berthing on
arrival.
How to satisfy the demands of shippers across the
industrial spectrum, including those incorporating shortsea shipping into their
European logistics networks for the first time, will be considered as will be
the encouragement of shippers to accept feeders as an alternative to road or
rail alternatives.
New initiatives regarding ship design, the growth in
size of shortsea and feeder vessels and the consequences for smaller ports, the
suitability of ro-ro vessels as container carriers and the conversion of
traffic flows from trailers to 45ft palletwide containers are also expected to
feature in the Annual Conference programme. Likewise new technical solutions
designed to improve the efficiency of container terminals, shortsea shipping
and container barge operations will be examined.
According to Coastlink's Chairman, David Cheslin,
Dublin looks to be an ideal venue:
"Coastlink delegates value our conferences as
much for the networking opportunities they provide as for the quality of the
presentations; where better to network than the vibrant port city of
Dublin?"
Cheslin also highlighted Dublin's easy
accessibility:
"Thanks mainly to Ryanair, few cities in
Europe are as easy to reach by air. Ryanair flies to Dublin from around 75
locations including Aberdeen, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels, Gdansk, Gothenburg,
Liverpool, London (three airports), Lübeck (for Hamburg), Nantes,
Newcastle, Oslo, Paris, Riga and Stockholm while there are other low-cost
carriers flying in from important hubs like Copenhagen and
Amsterdam."
The call for papers is now open and those wishing to
propose presentations should contact Gavin Roser (e-mail
gavinroser@coastlink.co.uk or
telephone +44 1698 840 465) or David Cheslin (e-mail
davidcheslin@coastlink.co.uk)
or telephone (+44 20 7480 0601).
For information on exhibition opportunities, please
contact Robert Jervis on either e-mail (robertjervis@coastlink.co.uk) or
telephone (+44 77 85 28 88 79).
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