Global Maritime Logistics Dialogue
Stakeholder Event
Maritime logistics is essential for trade: obstacles in the maritime logistics chain have immediate repercussions on trade. The maritime logistics chain consists of many different actors with different roles that are highly interdependent. This means that the performance of the individual actors is to an important extent determined by the behaviour of other actors. There are currently no comprehensive performance indicators for the maritime logistics chain. What exist are indicators on logistics in general and on parts of the maritime logistics chain. As a result, there is a lack of visibility on the performance of maritime logistics chain: performance information is fragmented and often not publicly available. This lack of transparency makes it difficult to have evidence-based dialogue on bottlenecks. A win-win approach is possible if better performance information on the maritime logistics chain would be available.
The Global Maritime Logistics Dialogue brings together stakeholders from the maritime logistics chain, including representatives from the shipping sector, shippers, ports, terminals and freight forwarders. The format of this session is a round table discussion.
Main questions:
- What could good performance indicators for maritime logistics look like?
- What elements should be taken into account?
- How could stakeholders support the development of such indicators?
Pyers Tucker
Pyers Tucker is responsible for developing Hapag-Lloyd’s long term strategy. He has been at Hapag-Lloyd for the last 5 years, running major company wide improvement programmes (eg latterly strategy). Before that he went through multiple stations, including: Maersk, DHL at Global Customer Solutions, and The Monitor Company. Prior to that he was in the British Army, latterly responsible for operations in Bosnia. During that time he was also the personal staff officer to Commander of UN Forces in Bosnia and has given evidence at 6 trials at the Bosnia war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Tan Chong Meng
Tan Chong Meng is the Group Chief Executive Officer of PSA International, a leading global port group with operations in Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America. PSA is headquartered in Singapore and owned by Temasek Holdings. Through its 40 port projects around the world, with flagship operations in Singapore and Antwerp, PSA handles 1 in 10 global container movements annually, serving all major international shipping lines and other stakeholders in the maritime supply chain.
Chong Meng joined PSA on 1 October 2011, bringing with him a wealth of experience in managing the complexity, diversity and breadth of a global business. Together with his management team, he is responsible for the overall performance of the PSA Group and provides strategic direction on growing the company’s value through maximising assets, developing PSA port positions and engaging global business partnerships.
Outside the PSA Group, Chong Meng serves as Chairman of the JTC Board, a non-Executive Director on the board of the National University Health System (NUHS), and a member of the International Advisory Panel of Singapore’s Public Service Division. He was previously a Board Member of IE Singapore.
Before joining PSA, Chong Meng served as the Executive Vice President, Global Commercial, Shell Downstream, of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. He led six global businesses – many of which are world leaders engaged in the marketing and sale of fuels, lubricants and specialty products to commercial customers vis-à-vis Aviation, Marine, Industrial, Land Transport, Construction and Liquefied Petroleum Gas. A global leader with more than 20 years of experience in Shell, Chong Meng worked in USA, Europe, China and Singapore, holding various senior leadership positions that spanned management, sales, marketing, trading, refinery operations, customer service and merger & acquisitions.
Prior to Shell, Chong Meng had also worked in various positions with Singapore’s Ministry of National Development for five years.
Olaf Merk
Olaf Merk is ports and shipping expert of the International Transport Forum at the OECD. As such, he has directed and written on a range of subjects, including ports policy, mega-ships, cruise shipping and decarbonisation of maritime transport. In previous posts at the OECD he worked on port-cities, urban governance and infrastructure finance. Prior to that he worked at the Netherlands Ministry of Finance.
Lamia Kerdjoudj Belkaid
Lamia Kerdjoudj-Belkaid is the Secretary General of FEPORT, the Federation of European Private Port Operators and Terminals since March 2014. She has a professional experience of more than 19 years during which she held different positions within the maritime and logistics sector. Among others, she has been for more than seven year the Public Affairs manager of the French Shipowners' Organization. Between 2009 and 2012, she has also been appointed as a senior expert and advisor in the framework of several European projects financed by different DGs of the European Commission. She has also worked for private companies and corporations (among others Capmarine, Budd SA, CATRAM, EGIS) and has been in charge of consulting and business development assignments for large multinational companies. She is since 12 years a lecturer in Business schools in France and Germany in the field of stakeholders' management and multilateral negotiations.