Organizers — PORTS OF UKRAINE Publishing House and the Centre for Information and Analytics BLACKSEATRANS.

The summit will be carried out under the aegis of Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine.

The summit is thought to be the next scheduled review of ‘container forces’ of the Black Sea region in the conditions of the world economic crisis negotiation and the recovery of container cargo flows.

General sponsor of the summit is the company HPC Ukraine, the operator of Odessa seaport’s container terminal.

Black Sea Container Summit is going to give opportunities for fruitful dialogue to the heads of transport companies, cargo owners, carriers, terminal operators, line agents, forwarders, representatives of governmental bodies, to all specialists related to the market of container carriages.

           
Special issues to be discussed at the summit:

• Ways to recovery of global container carriages after world economic crisis
• Black Sea container market in the recapture period
• Trade lanes of the Black Sea container cargo flows
• New realities in container shipping lines? activity
• Supply and demand of terminal capacities in the Black Sea countries
• Issues of container transit
• Dry ports and logistics centers assigned for container operations
• New technologies and handling equipment for container terminals
• Problems of customs clearance

 

Among the speakers there will be the analysts of world consulting companies, representatives of all Black Sea countries.   

During the summit the delegates will be familiarized with the activity of Odessa Merchant Seaport and the construction works on creation of a new container terminal with its throughput capacity of 600.000 TEUs a year on of the Karantinny Mole in Odessa port.  

The latest 3rd  Black Sea Container Summit 2009 gathered around 140 representatives of the world largest container lines, global terminal operators, heads and top-managers of seaports, stevedore companies, manufacturers of container handling equipment, transport and forwarding companies from 14 countries of the world (Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Romania, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, USA, Turkey, Moldova).

 

Special reasons to attend the summit:

The Black Sea container market had been growing before the credit crunch started at the world highest growth rates — up to 40 % annually. Ukraine is actively developing the container carriages infrastructure, escalating the stevedoring activity in the country’s seaports. A new market is evolving. There is also the place for you in this market.

 

If registered through BaltMarketConsult OÜ the the price of participation in the summit will be:

• 700 Euro per delegate
• If you pay the registration fee for the participation in the summit till September 1, 2010, you get a discount 5 %

With the participation of two or more delegates from one company can be an additional discount.

The price includes: participation in the summit, portfolio with the conferential materials, lunches, coffee breaks, gala-dinner, excursion about the water area of Odessa Merchant Sea Port and the acquaintance with construction works on a new container terminal with its throughput capacity of 600.000 TEUs a year on the Karantinny Mole in Odessa port,  free access to all reports and presentations at the summit after its termination.