PATCH ports target Seawork
Ports Adapting to Change (PATCH) is hosting a Seawork 2012 conference this year – helping ports improve strategy on the important issues of management, financing and cooperation.
The afternoon conference will feature port planning for a sustainable future with Laurent Devulder from the Port of Calais, ports maintenance and sustainable dredging practice in smaller ports with Didier Jégou from the SuPorts Project and the keynote speech will be on the European framework for ports by Wolfgang Hehn, EC, DG-Enterprise and Industry.
Ports Adapting to Change (PATCH) is an EU funded transnational collaboration project between eight ports: Ramsgate, Newhaven, Portsmouth, Calais, Zeebrugge, Zeeland Seaports and Oostende. It is seeking to change the way major north sea and channel ports function. The lead partner in the project is AGHO Oostende in Belgium.
The project provides investments in infrastructure, promotes new energy efficient ways of working and helps the ports work together on identifying their markets for the future and by working together, allowing managers and staff the opportunity to learn from each other. It funds joint technical workshops about a wide range of issues including dredging, impact of new shipping fuel regulations, and how to adapt a port to the arrival of the new offshore wind energy industries in order to harness job opportunities from operations and maintenance bases nearby.
For more information and to register visit: www.seawork.com
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