13th World Conference Cities and Ports will be held in Saint Nazaire and Nantes from 18 to 21 June 2012 the World Conferences of AIVP on “The port’s New Era”
Organized every two years, the World Conferences of AIVP (the Worldwide Network of Port Cities) gather port and urban decision-makers (elected representatives and technical experts), researchers and academics, as well as economical and institutional partners of the port areas development.
The conference’s main objective is to develop some practices and know-how but also to be a showcase of port’s projects or realizations, to exchange experiences between decision-makers and other economic actors for the ports’ development, to increase institutional and public authorities’ awareness of the main assets of the port area and finally, to reinforce transversal exchanges between the various decision-makers in order to initiate consultation and new working methods.
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http://www.citiesandports2012.com