Third Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of Logistical Port Communities brings together more than 100 experts
More than 100 experts from public institutions and private entities exchanged their experience on collaborative best practices in the promotion of logistical port communities, in order to increase regional competitiveness.
More than 100 industry specialists, officials and public agencies, as well as consultants and researchers representing 27 port systems from 13 countries participated in the 3rd Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of Logistical Port Communities, organized by CAF-development bank of Latin America, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), with the support of the national port authority (APN), an entity attached to Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC).
The event is part of the technical activities of the “Program for the Creation of the Digital and Collaborative Port Network (PD&C Network),” which involves major port communities in Latin America in order to identify, promote and disseminate collaborative and institutional best practices of the maritime and port industry in the region.
The “PD&C Network” is an initiative launched by the Permanent Secretariat of SELA, through a technical cooperation agreement with CAF.
The Permanent Secretary of SELA, Javier Paulinich, stressed that the PD&C Network has advanced a series of technical activities between 2014 and 2018 with major port communities in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, in order to identify, promote and disseminate institutional, digital and innovation best practices in the region.
In addition, the head executive of the Infrastructure Analysis and Technical Evaluation department at CAF, Fausto Arroyo, explained that the main challenge is to consolidate a network that strengthens public policies for the port sector and promotes implementation of technical recommendations locally, in every port system, in order to increase competitiveness and sustainability of logistics chains and promote the transformation of ports within logistics regulating entities in the region.
The Chairman of the Board of APN, Edgar Patiño, said that these meetings are an international platform for public and private dialogue, to exchange experiences and approaches regarding competitiveness of logistics corridors for economic integration in the seaport chain, to boost economic and social development of countries.
Representatives of port institutions and national and international logistics companies shared presentations and held panels in the two-day event, discussing “Public policies of institutions and digital ports in the region,” “Digital and disruptive transformation in European, North American and Asia Pacific ports,” “The value of metrics, benchmarking and continuous improvement in port systems,” “Development outlook in regional port areas,” among other topics.
The meeting produced the Declaration of Lima, a document that seeks to promote greater involvement of public policies in digital, institutional modernization and innovation in the region’s port systems.
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