Day One Tuesday, 28th of June 2011

• Major investment and the infrastructure augmentation plan
• Port capacity supply keeping pace with growing demand
• Challenges towards becoming the most efficient port in Africa

Simon Farhat, DP World Maputo, Mozambique

• Analyzing infrastructure requirements
• Supporting the new generation of cellular container ships
• How to deal with the increasing demand for electricity – How
• Eskom cannot deliver the right quantities for the future

• What infrastructure is required for specific ports?
• Are deep water ports attracting international cargo?
• How do you integrate fishing ports into the region’s economy?

• Growing your maritime economy
• Dealing with customs and excise to improve efficiency
• Legislation being effectively dealt with

Speaker to be advised, South African Maritime Safety
Authority, South Africa

• Looking at partial port privatization and concessions
• How to develop a strategy to increase the capacity to offload
• large containers
• New strategies to improve trade from the ports inland

• The increased demand for safety, security and efficiency
• Looking at improving the low container handling speeds in line
• with the international norms

Elias Mwenyo, Sales and Services Manager, Namibia Ports Authority, Namibia

• Vessels, tugs and navigation aids have developed rapidly in the last 30 years.
• Have ports evolved over the same period?
  
  Greg Haigh, Director: Global Maritime Business Leader, Arup
  Pheku Montwedi, Associate Director: Maritime, Arup

• Looking at PPP’s as a possible solution for government projects
• Partnering with government to encourage the private sector to
• become transparent in their motives to invest
• How technology and the development processes are linked to
• the various players working together to improve infrastructure

• Enabling intra-regional trade in Africa through innovative projects
• Improving on efficiencies: lowering logistic costs
• Reducing transit time along the route and within the ports

• Looking at dealing effectively with congestion
• Maximizing the relationship between ports, rail and road
• operators
• How to improve transit times
• Finding how to decrease long delays at the ports

Simon Farhat, DP World Maputo, Mozambique