Coastlink announces additional speakers for its
Hamburg conference
Coastlink, the independent organisation dedicated to
the promotion of multimodal/ shortsea container services, has announced a
number of new speakers who will join an already impressive line-up at its
conference to be held in the Hotel Atlantic Kempinski, Hamburg on Tuesday 19th
and Wednesday 20thApril, 2011.
The opening session now sees Wolfgang Hurtienne
setting the ball rolling. As managing director and head of strategy, Hamburg
Port Authority, he is in a perfect position to outline the future of his port
as it faces a host of challenges including the need to deepen the Elbe and to
compete with the new deepwater container terminal being built at Wilhelmshaven.
Hamburg also wants to attract more shortsea shipping
services. Key to this will be its ability to expand its hinterland, which for
shortsea lines differs significantly from that served by the deepsea lines.
While they are happy to serve many parts of Central/Southern Germany and
Eastern Europe via the Elbe port, the shortsea lines have tended to use
Rotterdam for the same regions.
Sascha Faber, Hamburg manager of DBR container
transport, Deutsche Binnenreederei AG, will describe one expanding part of the
port's hinterland, namely the river Elbe where container barge transport is on
the increase.
Two other very different German ports will also be
showcased: Wilhelmshaven, where a huge new container terminal is being built,
and Duisport, which has become a major success story on the Rhine. Describing
the Wilhelmshaven development will be Torsten Meyer, Director Sales, Eurogate,
while Heiko Rumfeld, Director, Duisport Agency GmbH, will explain how Duisport
now manages an annual throughput of over two million TEU.
The changing face of Baltic feeder networks
Baltic feeder networks have seen a lot of change in
recent months. Economic factors saw a switch to hubbing in Rotterdam rather
than Hamburg, only to move back to Hamburg some months later. The weather this
winter has been severe too, leading to cancellations, port switches and
surcharges as heavy ice disrupted operations. Meanwhile the 'Russia effect'
still causes uncertainty as no-one seems willing or able to forecast future
traffic flows through St Petersburg and the other Baltic port gateways.
Speakers in this second session include Egor Govorukhin, Vice-President, Sales
and Marketing, National Container Company, Russia, and Hans-Christian
Mordhorst, Chief Commercial Officer, Team Lines.
Time to re-think ship design?
Having prompted much discussion about the need for
innovation in shortsea containership design when he spoke last year at
Coastlink's Antwerp conference, Alexander Saverys, Managing Director, Delphis
NV takes the chairman's role for the third session, which ranges across diverse
subjects such as bunkers, main engine emissions, ship design and propulsion
systems.
Speakers include Ian Adams, Chief Executive,
International Bunker Industry Association, Roel van Eijle, product director,
Damen Shipyards, Rotterdam and Mathias Reimann, Walther Möller & Co,
Hamburg.
After a short coffee break Alexander Saverys will then
give his own views on these subjects both as a shipowner and a shortsea
operator, before Dr Johann Killinger, Managing Partner of Buss Capital and Buss
Group, discusses the thorny question of ship finance, without which there will
be no new ships!.
New and growing markets for shortsea
shipping
Industry pressure is encouraging Coastlink into
extending its fields of interest south to Iberia, the Mediterranean, Black Sea
and North Africa. Among the speakers in this session will be Till Ole
Barrelet,, Managing Director, OPDR , who will focus on the development of the
European shortsea reefer market.
For the diary: 19 & 20 April 2011.
Coastlink Spring 2011 Conference, Hamburg. Venue: Hotel Atlantic Kempinski,
www.coastlink.co.uk
www.regonline.com/coastlinkhamburg
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