Twenty-five senior managers from the ports of Djibouti, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives and Tanzania will be participating in the second Train-the-Trainers Workshop for English-speaking Port Communities in Dublin, Ireland from 30 June to 15 July 2009. The workshop is organized by UNCTAD in cooperation with Dublin Port Company (DPC) and with the financial support from Irish Aid. This is the second of a series of seminars to train port officials from English-speaking developing countries on port management and prepare the national replication of “UNCTAD Port Training Programme” in beneficiary countries.
This train-the-trainers workshop on Modules 5 to 8 of the “Modern Port Management” course is the continuation of the one on Modules 1 to 4, which took place last year in Dublin. Modules 5 to 8 include methods and tools of modern management in ports, economic and commercial management, administrative and legal management, and technical management and development of human resources.
Port communities of developing countries need to foster economic development by providing efficient and competitive services to facilitate local and regional trade. The increasingly sophisticated nature of global port operations makes training essential. Moreover, with the current global climate change situation, the international shipping and port communities also need to be active in addressing the climate change challenge and ensure that broader climate change implications for maritime transport is taken into account. The UNCTAD programme helps port communities in developing countries to strengthen human skills according to local resources and conditions to keep up with competition and new challenges.
To promote the development of human resources and skills in the maritime sector, the Human Resources Development Section of UNCTAD’s Division on Technology and Logistics (DTL), with the assistance of the Transport Section and the Trade Logistic Branch, has been implementing the TrainForTrade[1] “Port Training Programme” since 1996. Today, the programme benefited over one thousand port operators from 15 different developing countries.
The workshop is a follow up of the Dublin Declaration from June 2007. Based on the agreement adopted by port representatives of English-speaking African and Asian countries, missions have been organized by UNCTAD and the Dublin Port Company to assess the needs for development, training, and capacity building scope of these countries.
Date Published: Tuesday 30. of June 2009