The first steps were taken under the auspices of the Port of Copenhagen, which together with the ports of Tallinn and Rostock formed the organization in October 1991. He Baltic Ports Organization was established by ports with commercial interests in the Baltic Sea region (BSR). The Baltic will always be unique, the small sea gathering on its shore nine so different countries rich in their variety, and this makes me be certain that the Baltic Ports Organization will stay unique as well.įlourishing potential By Martyna Bildziukiewicz In a long-term perspective, over the next 10-20 years, I would have to say I’m not quite sure… However, there are two items that remain stable: firstly, we will always try to focus on the environment, as we wish to protect our sea, and secondly, people will always need to get together and debate on matters of concern. If one asks me what the future challenges for the BPO and the port sector will be, I would say that in a few years’ perspective it is the shipping business after 2015 and the related development (e.g.
Last, but not least, the topic always present on our agenda is the environment, as the green issues are a significant component of the port management. Now the most burning issue we are dealing with is the introduction of SECA rules, which still leaves us in an uncertainty of their influence on the ports and the shipping business in the Baltic.
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During our series of conferences we dealt with the growth of trade, but as soon as the crisis came, we had to face a dramatic decrease in cargo flows.
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Later the tax-free issue was a hot item for our sector afterwards the EU enlargement and the question of how to deal with port investments on a massive scale was on the BPO agenda. At old times it was the transfer of know-how and port experiences between West and East. shipping, intermodal), BPO has always followed the development around the port business and addressed the key issues for the ports. When building and sustaining the social network between the ports themselves as well as within other industries (e.g. However, we will never forget Christel Wiman, who chaired BPO for several years. We have built a network across the Baltic, although we haven’t yet succeeded in getting more women into the port business, so the port sector is still dominated by men. Now, a port manager in Finland or Poland may call the mobiles of their business partners in Denmark or Sweden and speak to them directly. We have rather kept the networking and social dimension as a very important part of BPO. In fact, we have never had such ambitions. We have never succeeded in being a big organization with a serious structure and a big budget. Undoubtedly, it has been quite some time in my life, during which I have met many wonderful port people. One may say that I have been with our organization, with some short breaks, for 15 years, but I missed the first five years of its history. I started my adventure with BPO in 1996 when I was a very young guy (28) and since then I have been working for or been in touch with BPO for almost the whole time. So let me be a bit personal in this introduction as well. And although I am sure that in this special BPO publication you will find a plateful of information concerning our organization, it is also personal. N such an important occasion as the 20th anniversary of the Baltic Ports Organization one might expect a very in-depth analysis of the port sector covering the past 20 years or a detailed report on the organization’s activities. Presentations of BPO members List of BPO members BPO membersĭear Friends, By Bogdan Ołdakowski BPO Secretary General Ports at the centre of the Baltic Sea Strategy Anne E. Two centuries in twenty years Krzysztof Urbaś The Baltic will amaze the world Interview with Julian Skelnik, Chairman of BPO Contents 20th anniversary of BPO Preface Bogdan Ołdakowskiįlourishing potential Martyna Bildziukiewicz
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