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Twenty members of the Port Authorities Roundtable from Asia, Europe, Middle East and North America met on April 24 to declare their commitment to ensuring their ports remain open amidst the current pandemic. <\/p>\n
The declaration, initiated by Singapore, calls for port authorities to collaborate and share best practices in ensuring that port operations are not disrupted.<\/p>\n
Through this joint declaration, the signatories are committed to work together and ensure that:<\/p>\n
• Merchant ships can continue to berth at port terminals to carry out cargo operations and keep the global supply chain going;
\n• Best practices are adopted, according to national circumstances, including precautionary measures for the shipping community, advisories and assistance for shore personnel and ship crew, and safe handling of cargoes during this period; and
\n• Port authorities continue to share experiences in combating COVID-19 while safeguarding unimpeded maritime trade.<\/p>\n
The Roundtable has shared the declaration with the IMO and the International Association of Ports and Harbours to rally other port authorities to join the declaration.<\/p>\n
List of 20 members who signed the declaration<\/strong><\/p>\n Abu Dhabi Ports maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twenty members of the Port Authorities Roundtable from Asia, Europe, Middle East and North America met on April 24 to declare their commitment to ensuring their ports remain open amidst the current pandemic. The declaration, initiated by Singapore, calls for port authorities to collaborate and share best practices in ensuring that port operations are not …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2264,1955,1154,3305,5424,953,61,4033,142,5423,5425],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-authorities","tag-covid-19","tag-covid19","tag-declaration","tag-maritime-trade","tag-port","tag-ports","tag-sign","tag-singapore","tag-singapore-mpa","tag-twenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAntwerp Port Authority
\nBureau of Port and Harbor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
\nBusan Port Authority
\nGuangzhou Port Authority
\nHamburg Port Authority
\nMaritime and Port Authority of Singapore
\nMontreal Port Authority
\nNingbo Municipal Port Administration Bureau
\nPort Authority of Thailand (Bangkok Port)
\nPort of Barcelona
\nPort and Harbor Bureau, City of Yokohama
\nPort and Harbor Bureau, Kobe City Government
\nPort Klang Authority
\nPort of Long Beach
\nPort of Los Angeles
\nPort of Rotterdam
\nPort of Seattle
\nShanghai Municipal Transportation Commission
\nPort of Le Havre <\/p>\n