IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim will deliver the opening keynote address at the WPSP launch. In an exclusive interview for IAPH’s magazine Ports & Harbors, he speaks with IAPH Managing Director Patrick Verhoeven about the need for more communication between ships and ports on issues like increasing ship size and automated shipping. The Secretary General highlights that the IMO would be the right platform for such important discussions. Mr Lim also pleads for a stronger involvement of the port sector in the ongoing work of the FAL and MEPC committees and better information sharing between port and maritime administrations.
The full interview with Mr Lim appears in the March-April issue of Ports & Harbors.