Sustainable Development and Business Networking.
Your annual meeting point and Observatory for analysis
and monitoring of Environmental Management policies
in the maritime industry —for shipping companies, ferry
operators and public entities.
* Will be donated to Mercy Ships the collection after paying all the Spring Conference expenses.
Sustainable Development and Business Networking.
* Will be donated to Mercy Ships the collection after paying all the Spring Conference expenses.
Reception and accreditation of Delegates.
Welcome cocktail to the Autonomous City of Ceuta by the local authorities.
Celebration of the Conference Day
General conference moderator: Cristina Molina Ferrie —Responsible for the Environment of the Port Authority of Ceuta.
09.00 to 09.15
Opening of the Conference by the President of the Port Authority of Ceuta —Mr. Juan Manuel Doncel Doncel.
09.15 a 09.20
Video Flash presentation —Platinum Sponsor: DNV
09.20 a 10.00
Dialogue between the Marine Environment and the maritime industry, by 2 speakers: Marine Environment expert —Jose Carlos García Gómez, Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Seville; and the expert in the maritime industry —Elena Seco CEO of ANAVE, the Spanish Shipowners' Association.
Shipowners' Round Table:
10.00 a 11.00
Round table: experience of environmental management of maritime operators and shipping companies in the Strait and Western Mediterranean. Moderated by Manuel Carlier (former CEO of ANAVE —Spanish Shipowners' Association).
Confirmed shipowners for the panel debate (will be updated soon with the next confirmed additions):
Matteo Catani —CEO GNV
Ettore Morace —CEO Trasmed GLE
Christophe Mathieu —CEO Brittany Ferries
11.00 a 11.30
Q&A to the roundtable.
11.30 a 12.00
Coffee Break & Networking (sponsored).
12.00 a 12.05
Video Flash presentation —Sponsor Gold.
12.05 a 12.30
Interview to the president of the Sponsor Gold by Philippe Holthof.
12.30 a 13.00
EU subsidies and aids for environmental management and Community Policies, by Jaime Rodrigo de Larrucea.
13.00 a 15.00
Working Lunch & Networking (sponsored).
13.00 to 15.30
Working Lunch & Networking (sponsored).
15.30 a 15.35
Video Flash presentation —Sponsor Silver: CARUS.
Experts Panel —Topics to be discussed:
15.35 a 16.00
Challenge to the fuels of the future, by Jose Allona BDM of DNV.
16.00 a 16.20
Waste management and emission control systems, by the Harbour Master of the Port of Ceuta.
16.20 a 17.00
Waste management and emission control systems (speaker from Ceuta industry in relation to waste management TBA).
17.00 a 17.05
Video Flash presentation —Sponsor Bronze.
17.05 a 17.35
Coffee Break & Networking (sponsored).
17.35 a 18.35
Port of Ceuta: environmental management experience and annual Observatory (led by Cristina Molina Ferrie —Responsible for the Environment of the Port Authority of Ceuta, and Rafael Martínez Peñalver —Responsible for the Infrastructures of the Port Authority of Ceuta, with Óscar Ocaña Vicente —Director of the 'Fundación Museo del Mar de Ceuta', and Fernando R. Correal —Gestemasur).
18.35 a 18.40
Video Flash presentation —Non Profit Sponsor: MERCY SHIPS
18.40 a 19.00 —Closure of the Conference by the CEO of the Ceuta Port Authority, Adolfo Orozco.
21.00 to 24.00
Farewell dinner
Interventions by:
Jose Rodríguez, The Maritime Consulting Group —Copromoter of the event and Event Director.
Juan Manuel Doncel, President of the Port Authority & Copromoter of the event, with the delivery of the '1st Port of Ceuta Award for Excellence in Environmental Management in the maritime sector'.
His Excellency Mr. Juan Jesús Vivas Lara, President of the Autonomous City of Ceuta and Honorary Godfather of the event

The Port of Ceuta is also one of the few Spanish ports (together with Barcelona, Algeciras, and Vigo) that has the EMAS Certification —Eco Management and Audit Scheme, that allows evaluating the environmental impact, improving it in qualitative and quantitative terms, and declare it officially and transparently.