ECSA to organise seminar “Africa and shipping – a mutually benefitting cooperation”
ECSA will organise an event on 29 November in the European Parliament hosted by MEP Hilde Vautmans. The logistics challenges and opportunities in Africa will be discussed with an impressive number of speakers and panelists. In this event, we will discuss how to ensure mutually benefiting cooperation in the region.
“African governments and businesses are important partners of European shipping companies and close cooperation between EU and African institutions and stakeholders is vital. In view of the EU-Africa summit in 2017, the review of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement (Cotonou agreement) in 2020, and other strategic discussions we think it is timely to exchange with EU policy makers about common opportunities”, commented ECSA Secretary General Patrick Verhoeven.
Speakers at the event include the United Nations Committee on Trade and Development, representatives of the European Commission and the European External Action Service, Members of the European Parliament and several shipping companies.