A presentation by Theresa Williams, director, SOS Maritime and Engineering Services, South Africa delivered during African Ports Evolution 2015, held in Durban, South Africa. More like this on www.transportworldafrica.co.za

2. Presented by
Ms. Theresa V. Williams
CEO: SOS Maritime Training & Development Specialists
Maritime skills development in Africa

3. IPSEA – EU Funded Initiative
• IPSEA - Improvement of Port Safety, Security and Port
Efficiency
• Western and Central African region
• Support government, maritime administrations, port
authorities and private port operators
• Joint Africa-EU Partnership
• Partnership works towards improving in particular:
o port safety & security – IMO convention adoption &
implementation
o protection of the marine environment
o Port efficiency, by simplifying/improving the regulatory
framework to reducing administrative delays and
traffic bottlenecks.

4. IPSEA Programme execution
• Initial Assessment
o EU assessment team visited 33 ports.
• Pre-training assessment
o Through direct policy advice to maritime
administrations, port authorities, urban
planners and port private sector
• Capacity building
o 8 weeks allocated to each country
o Safety, security and port efficiency training
provided

5. Why were these ports selected?
• Location
• International convention adoption & implementation
• Long term vision/strategy implementation
• Neighbourly support
• Government buy-in and political will
• Private public partnerships
• Infrastructure

6. Areas of Improvement

7. Areas for improvement identified
• Casualties from port related activities
• Human resources:
o Selection and recruitment
o Nepotism, development and promotion
• Maritime legislation/convention implementation
• Maritime environmental protection
o IMDG (stowage,) MARPOL
• Port development/design/upgrade/planning
• Intermodal connectivity; infrastructure

8. • Administrative bottlenecks
• Stakeholder relationships
• Change/Transformation
• Efficiency of customs and border clearance;
• Ease of arranging competitively priced shipments
• High cost to import/export
• Questionable business practices
Areas for improvement identified cont…

9. Capacity building focus areas

10. Port Efficiency drivers
• Human Resource capacity
• The ability of a port to be competitive at regional and
international level.
• The ability to adapt to meet the ever-changing and
developing needs of the industry
• The duration/turn-around time of the ship in port
• The quality of cargo-handling;
• The quality of service linked to inter-modality associated
with transhipment

11. Training Modules
• Port Strategy
• Port Vision focus
• SWOT
• Maritime Conventions
• Ports and their functions
• Port framework
• Port Efficiency
• Port Master Planning
• Port Models
• Port Management
• Port Planning
• Dry Ports
• Hub Ports
• Change/ Transformation
Management
• Case studies e.g. The
Greek Economy
• Maritime Environmental
factors
• Port Community Systems
• Information Community
Technologies (ICT) &
Automatic systems
• Emergency response plans
• Competitiveness

12. Conclusion - Africa Our Africa
• Becoming Proudly African
• Be proactive…not reactive
• Partner with all stakeholders
• Respect rules, policies, processes
• Care about our ports, people, our countries & our continent
• Don’t be a stumbling block. Don’t resist. Don’t be Greece!
• Be the change we want to see…Be open to change…Be positive
about change…Implement changes

13. IPSEA Training Pictures

14. Thank you
theresa@sostraining.co.za or theresavw@hotmail.com