Port Excellence and Territorial Development in Africa

Organizing activity and traffic flow around ports, as well as their connection with the territory and hinterland (roads, rail, rivers), is a complex and multidimensional challenge for integrating ports into their environment. To this end, a port’s “value proposition” is not solely linked to its geographic location and the productivity/quality/safety of the operations carried out there, but also to the economic and logistics-industrial activities developing in its hinterland. The latter must simultaneously be a place of value creation (provided that the relevant labor pool is sufficient in quantity and quality) and an interface between the port and the continent, ensuring good…

Alvine Bélise HAPPI, Lawyer admitted to the Paris (France) and Cameroon Bars, PhD in Law, Co-Founding Partner of the HBE AVOCATS firm, Certified Mediator and Founder of the African Association for the Promotion and Development of Maritime Transport and Intermodality (AATMI), will speak, alongside other internationally recognized experts, as a Speaker to offer you the best, during this 4th e-conference organized as part of the African Ports Forum Live, to be held on Friday, April 29, 2022 at 12:00 PM GMT, on the theme:

“Port Excellence and Territorial Development in Africa”

This e-conference, organized by the African Ports Forum Live, in partnership with the international business law firm HBE AVOCATS and the AATMI, in preparation for the 4th Edition of the African Ports Forum, is aimed at institutional stakeholders, civil servants and public officials, government officials, experts, academics, doctoral students, practitioners, lawyers, and professionals interested in cooperation between African port communities and the logistics development of territories, maritime and multimodal transport in Africa including legal aspects, international trade, integrating development aspects, and the efficiency and performance of African ports in close correlation with the development of their hinterlands, including financial aspects.

This 4th and final e-conference in the series follows on from the previous ones, held respectively 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”; and

The 3rd in the series – April 15, 2022 – “Challenges and Perspectives of the China-Africa Port Strategy.”

Registration Open: https://lnkd.in/dgYi2EFJ