Lectures Abroad
Port Concessions
Day 1: INTRODUCTION: “Antwerp: a landlord port and its customers”
- Introduction to the seminar
- WHO is WHO
- Presentation on APEC – AFPTC
- Introduction by the students
- Introduction of the port of Antwerp
- Antwerp port master planning
- Inventory of a port today
- Norm and rules for the operation of a logistic platform
- What do customers expect from the Port Authority
Day 2: CONCESSIONS: “The portential players in a port and the criteria to be followed/respected”
- The different Port Models
- Port privatization issues methods and constraints
- Criteria of a port Authority to award a concession to a terminal operator
- Views towards future expansion
- Experience
- Financial results
- Existing clients/potential clients
- Employment in the past and the future
- Business plan
- The needs of the port customers
- The cost of a port
Day 3: CONCESSIONS: “The impact of a chosen concession system for all players concerned”
- General conditions for concessions
- Governance of the concession policy
- Public –private partnership
- The dual character of a concession
- Tariff policy of the port of Antwerp
DAY 4: CONCESSIONS : “Coping with an ever changing environment”
- Granting concession in the port of Antwerp (case study)
- Competition and collaboration between ports
- Rules and regulations for a fair competition between public and private terminal operators: Why facilities public and private.
- Reasons to choose “Our port, our facilities”
- Forces stimulating port reform
Day 5: Workshop: “Case study in order to implement certain concession rules from the point of view from different players”
- Recapitulation concerning concession
- Allocation of concession case study Port of Liege
- Introduction of the case study
- Different groups to prepare their solution
- Presentation of the results by the different groups