PORT EXCELLENCE AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA – APRIL 29, 2022
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The organization of activities and traffic around ports, as well as their connection with the surrounding territory and hinterland (roads, railways, rivers), constitutes a complex and multidimensional challenge for the integration of ports into their environment. In this regard, a port’s “value proposition” is not determined solely by its geographic location and the productivity / quality / safety of the operations carried out there, but also by the economic and logistics-industrial activities that develop within its hinterland. The latter must serve both as a source of value creation (provided that the related labor pool is sufficient in both quantity and quality) and as an interface between the port and the continent, ensuring smooth and efficient flow…
- What are the challenges facing port excellence and territorial development today?
- Why is a holistic and multidimensional approach integrating ports, hinterlands, and corridors the key to the success of a competitive port sector in Africa?
- What alternatives could unlock the current situation and facilitate smoother exchanges between ports and their hinterlands?
- What about improving multimodal connectivity, and what role should roads, railways, and inland waterways play?
- What economic model should be adopted to address this approach?
- How can flow management be ensured within the framework of a comprehensive supply chain vision, taking into account broader issues beyond maritime transport alone or the strict efficiency and performance of ports?
- The synchronization of maritime and land-based flows can improve performance, define areas of intervention and responsibility, and strengthen the interface capacity among the many stakeholders involved: who are the key actors, and what roles should they play?
How can control of information flows be ensured as a guarantee of performance and service scalability?
Alvine Bélise Happi, Attorney admitted to the Bars of Paris (France) and Cameroon, Doctor of Law, Co-Founding Partner of HBE AVOCATS, and Founder of AATMI, actively participated, alongside other internationally recognized experts, as a speaker to bring you the highest level of insight during this 4th e-conference organized as part of the Forum Africain des Ports Live, which took place on Friday, April 29, 2022, at 12:00 GMT, on the theme:
“Port Excellence and Territorial Development in Africa”
This e-conference, organized by the Forum Africain des Ports Live in partnership with HBE AVOCATS on the one hand and AATMI on the other, as part of the preparations for the 4th Edition of the African Ports Forum, is intended for institutional stakeholders, civil servants and public officials, government leaders, experts, academics, doctoral researchers, practitioners, lawyers, and professionals interested in cooperation among African port communities and the logistical development of territories, maritime and multimodal transport in Africa including legal aspects, international trade, development issues, and the efficiency and performance of African ports in close correlation with the development of their hinterlands, including financial dimensions.
This 4th e-conference follows the continuity of the previous sessions, which were successively held under the following themes:
The 1st in the series – March 18, 2022 – “Africa’s Competitiveness in the Era of Major Port Transformations”
The 2nd in the series – April 1, 2022 – “African Ports Facing Maritime Decarbonization and the Energy Transition”
The 3rd in the series – April 15, 2022 – “Challenges and Prospects of the China-Africa Port Strategy”