About the forum
The 3rd Ukrainian Ports Forum will take place on May 27-28, 2021 in Odessa!
The third annual Ukrainian Ports Forum is a key event in the maritime industry of Ukraine. The forum traditionally brings together a wide audience of speakers and participants – top officials, including the representatives of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, members of Parliament, representatives of international maritime organizations and associations such as the European Organization of Seaports, the International Association of Ports and Harbors, the International Maritime Organization and international financial institutions, including the World Bank, IFC, EBRD, EIB, members of diplomatic missions and international organizations, representatives of the world's leading ports and the Ukrainian port community, private investors and business representatives – top managers of ArcelorMittal, Cosco Shipping, Bunge, HHLA, Cofco Agri, Nibulon, Kernel, Louis Dreyfus, Posco International – and many others.
The Ukrainian Port Forum 2021 will be an effective platform for presenting key trends, discussing achievements and seeing further development of the country's infrastructure, including the investment potential of Ukraine's port industry, plans for the implementation of public-private partnership projects, digitalization of processes in the port industry and more.
The following topics will be discussed during panel sessions and working discussions:
- corporatization of the USPA and its role in the implementation of the Ukrainian Seaports Development Strategy until 2038;
- legislative and regulatory changes aimed at attracting investment in the port industry of Ukraine;
- investment priority areas and financing of projects in the port sector;
- investment program of the USPA;
- new privatization and public-private partnership projects in Ukrainian seaports;
- bulk cargo exports and prospects for increasing grain cargoes in 2021-2022 marketing year;
- integration of port facilities and in-land logistics in container transportation;
- seaports’ digitalization and introduction of innovative technologies, security and cybersecurity.
In addition, a number of Partnership agreements and MoU’s are planned to be signed during the Ukrainian Ports Forum 2021.
Traditionally the organizers of the Forum are Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and the Center for Transport Strategies (CTS). This year the Ukrainian Ports Forum will be a continuation of the government's dialogue with investors, business representatives, international organizations and financial institutions, initiated at the First Investment Forum "RE: THINK. Invest in Ukraine" by the President of Ukraine and representatives of the Government and Parliament, which took place on October 29, 2019, in Mariupol. The leaders of the state “presented Ukraine” to investors, emphasizing its ambitious goals of economic growth, including through attracting effective and large-scale investments.
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Speakers
Volodymyr Kreydenko
Deputy Head of the Parliament Committee for transport and infrastructure
Liubov Nepop
Head of the Danube Commission, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in Hungary
Hrynevetsky Serhiy
Head of Odessa Regional State Administration
Serhii Vovk
Director of CFTS
Andriy Gaidutskiy
Head of USPA Supervisory board
Jason Brett Pellmar
Regional Manager of IFC
Oleksandr Holodnytskyi
Acting CEO of SE “USPA”
Jean-Erik de Zagon
Head of EIB Representation for Ukraine
Iryna Koshel
Director of Reform Support Team of Ministry of infrastructure of Ukraine
Roy van Eijsden
Managing director Ballast Nedam International Projects
Darius Macijauskas
Executive Sales Manager ArcelorMittal
Olha Kopiika
Chairman of the Logistics Committee of the European Business Association
Vitalii Lipskyi
Deputy CEO of USPA on technical questions and infrastructure development
Michał Stupak
Manager, Port Gdańsk Authority
Nico Suys
Port of Antwerp International, APEC
Philip Sweens
Managing Director of HHLA International GmbH, President SC “CTO”
Frank Lett
Transportation solutions Director of Huawei
Daria Sichkar
Logistics Committee manager of the EBA
Neville Bissett
Chief Executive Officer Qterminals W.L.L.
Maksym Artomenko
COO and CTO ART PORT LLC
Taras Boichuk
Head of Office SPILNO
Radostin Popov
Chief Business Development Officer, P&O Maritime Logistics
Nadiia Kaznacheieva
Head of Investments, UMG Investments
Manfred Seitz
Director-General of the Secretariat of the Danube Commission
Vitalii Petruk
Deputy CEO of SE “USPA” for economics
Dmytro Iakymenkov
CCO “PPL 33-35” LLC
Alex Pougovkine
Nord Metallica Netherlands
Beka Gurgenidze
CEO ERTI LLC
Nikolay Gorbachov
President of Ukrainian Grain Association
Registration of participants. Coffee
OPENING SPEECH
Serhii Vovk, director of CFTS (moderator)
PANELISTS:
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
- Port infrastructure of Ukraine: current situation and development prospects
- Corporatization of the USPA
- The role of USPA in the implementation of the Ukrainian Seaports Development Strategy until 2038
- Roadmap on legislative and regulatory changes
- Main development trends in the Black Sea region: navigation safety and international cooperation
Coffee break
Taras Boichuk, head of Office SPILNO (moderator)
PANELISTS:
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
- Port industry investment priority areas
- Attraction of the alternative sources of financing and real availability of loans in Ukraine
- USPA investment program: barriers and real opportunities
- Concession of port assets - next steps and prospect projects
- M&A in ports: attracting international operators and market impact
Lunch
Roy van Eijsden, Managing Director Ballast Nedam International Projects (moderator)
PANELISTS:
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
- Bulk cargo exports - how to increase competitiveness on the world market
- Prospects for increasing grain cargo handling in 2021-2022 marketing year
- Integration of port facilities and in-land logistics in container transportation
- "Transit revival" - conditions and opportunities
- New prospective types of cargo for transshipment in the ports of Ukraine
- The latest technologies in the construction of strategic port infrastructure
Coffee break
Daria Sichkar, Logistics Committee manager of the EBA (moderator)
PANELISTS:
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
- Innovative solutions to improve the quality and facilitate transshipment: analysis of successful cases
- Port digitalization: how to get financial benefits from the introduction of new technologies
- Optimization of design and technical solutions in the construction process in seaports
- Ensuring security and cybersecurity in ports operation
- International standards of digital transport documents in the process of multimodal transportation
Gala dinner – M1 Club Hotel
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