First Hemispheric Seminar on Port Legislation 

Monday, November  24, 2014

• 8:00 – 9:00 - Registration
• 9:00 – 9:40 - Inauguration
  • Sherry Tross, Executive Secretary for Integral Development/OEA
  • César Llona, Secretary in office as Secretary General of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI)
  • Alberto Díaz, President of the National Port Authority of Uruguay (ANP) and President of the Executive Board of the CIP/ OEA
  • Luis Porto, Subsecretariat of External Relations of Uruguay
• 9:40 – 11:00 - Port Public Policies facing global challenges
  • Moderator: ANP
    • Jorge Durán, Chief Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee on Ports
    • Rodrigo Isaza, Advisor to the Office of the Superintendent of Ports and Transport of Colombia
    • Octavio Doerr, Ports and Logistics Specialist, Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC)
• 11:00 -11:15 - Coffee Break
• 11:15 -12:45 - Environmental Legislation against global sustainability goals:
  • Moderator: CIP/OEA
    • Francisco Javier González Silva, Chairman, Empresa Portuaria Arica (EPA)
    • Jose Marcano Cabrera, Port Manager, National Institute of Aquatic Spaces (INEA), Venezuela
    • Ana Brunet, Port Law Specialist, American Institute of Maritime Law (IIDM) 
    • Kevin P. Knight, Economist, Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources – PIANC-USA
• 12:45 - Official Group Photo
• 12:50– 2:00 - Lunch
• 2:00 – 3:00 - Global Trends in Multi-modal Transport
  • Moderator: ANP
  • a) Waterways, legal aspects – for the positioning the region on the map of global competitiveness
    • Catherine Colombo, Counsel of the National Directorate of Environment (DINAMA)
    • Ruy Alberto Zibetti, Legal consultant and Foreign Affairs, Technological Institute of Transport and Infrastructure, Federal University of Panama.
    • Igor Runov,Deputy Secretary General, Head of the IRU Permanent Delegation of New York, International Road Transport Union (IRU) 
• 3:00- 4:00 - Global Trends in Multi-modal Transportation (Cont…) 
  • Moderator: CIP/OEA
  • b) Legal status of inter-modal logistics meet the challenges of global supply chains
    • Carrol Pickersgill, Senior Vicepresident –Legal, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs of the Port Authority of Jamaica
    • Federico Stanham – National Logistics Institute of Uruguay (INALOG)
    • Raúl González, Councelor, Asesor, Association of Customs Brokers of Uruguay (ADAU)
• 4:00 -4:15 - Coffee Break
• 4:15- 5:30 - Legal aspects of the integral management of ports
  • Moderator: ANP
    • Edgardo Amoza, Counsel, National Ports Administration of Uruguay (ANP)
    • José Antonio Pejovés, Professor of Maritime Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lima.
    • Mónica Blanco, Attorney Advisor, Management Consortium of the Port of Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
• 5:30 – 7:00 - Second Working Session of the Executive Board of the CIP (CECIP) 
  • (Closed Session for the members of the CECIP: President: Uruguay; Vice-presidents: Barbados and Colombia; Presidents of the TAGs: Argentina, United States, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay, Venezuela.)
• 5:30 – 7:30 - Technical Visit to the Port of Montevideo for the participants of the Seminar
• 7:30 - Press Conference (by invitation)
• 8:00 – 9:30 - Welcome cocktail by the National Port Administration in the atrium of ALADI

Tuesday November 25, 2014

• 9:00 – 10:00 - New mechanisms of port investments and concessions
  • Moderator: CIP/OEA
    • Francisco Pastrana, CFO and Port Operation, Ministry of Communications and Transport of Mexico
    • José Aranda, Deputy Director General of Ports, Maritime Authority of Panama
    • Andrew Baskin, International Trade Specialist, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation, United States
• 10:00 -11:30 - City-Port relations/ Regime and alternative public-private partnerships for sustainable development set
  • Moderator: ANP
    • Álvaro Richino, Under Administrative Law, University of the Republic and General Counsel at the General Secretariat of the Montevideo Professor
    • Anuj Chopra, Vice President-Américas – RIGHTSHIP
    • Lincoln Flor, Senior Transport Economist, World Bank
    • Octavio Doerr, Ports and Logistics Specialist, Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) 
• 11:30 – 11:45 - Coffee Break
• 11:45 -12:30 - Port Labor Trends and Regimes as a tool to increase competitiveness
  • Moderator: CIP/OEA
    • Marita Kramp, Counsel, Port Management Comany of Suriname
    • Errol Gentle, Executive Director of the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation of Belize
• 12:30 – 2:00 - Working lunch ANP and CECIP. Free lunch for other participants
• 2:00 – 3:15 - Port protection and security – Trends in international regulatory policies for risk management
  • Moderator: ANP
    • Pedro Elizalde Monteagudo, Director of the School of Law, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
    • David Jean-Marie, CEO of Barbados Port Inc.
    • Horacio Tettamanti, Undersecretary of Ports and Waterways, Argentina
• 3:15 – 3:30 - Possible legal elements for the development of a general model of port law
  • Jorge Durán, Chief Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee on Ports
• 3:30 – 4:15 - Closing
  • Moderator: CIP/OAS
    • Sherry Tross, Executive Secretary for Integral Development / OEA
    • Carlos Álvarez, Secretary, Latin Amerian Integration Association (ALADI)
    • Alberto Díaz, President of the National POrt Authority of Uruguay (ANP) and President of the Executive Board of the CIP/OEA
    • Enrique Pintado, Transport Minister, Uruguay
• 4:15- 4:45 - Closing Toast