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This year's BPO General Assembly will be held on 11-12-13 September 2008 in the Grand Hall of the Musik- und Kongreßhalle in Lübeck, Germany. The main theme of the Conference will be: "Innovations in seaports: Cargo handling, efficient terminal utilization, hinterland connections, climate change"

Annual BPO Seminar that was held on 16th April in Brussels gathered more than 20 persons including members of the European Parliament, representatives of transport trade organizations, ports, etc. During the meeting, that took a form of a working lunch, a few speeches were given.

Stockholm 23-27th June 2008. The Ports of Stockholm will host the 11th international conference. The conference is organized by the International Association of Cities and Ports(IACP), an international network of cities and ports with 190 members from 35 countries worldwide. International world conferences are held every second year and last year's conference (2006) took place in Sydney, Australia.

In the March/April issue you can find summary from International Regional Rail Business Forum, conclusions from the Report Baltic Seaport Outlook 2007; callendar of BPO soonest events and a lot more.

BPO has published The Baltic Seaports Outlook 2007.

StocExpo and BPO are pleased to announce the launch of the first ever Russia & the Baltic Storage Terminal Operators' Conference and Exhibition, taking place in Helsinki on 26-27 February, 2008.

In November/December BPO Newsletter you can read summary from the BPO General Assembly 2007; an interview with Mr. Julian Skelnik, the new BPO Chairman; briefly about the new BPO website; what's new in ports and more.

General Assembly of the Baltic Ports Organization has elected Julian Skelnik, a vice-president of the Port of Gdañsk, as its new chairman. Mr. Julian Skelnik has substituted Mrs. Christel Wiman, the managing director of the Ports of Stockholm, who chaired the BPO for the last five years.

This year General Assembly will be held on 6-8 September in Sopot (Poland) and will gather about 60-80 executives from all major Baltic ports and port-related industries.

The workshop on 'Baltic Sea Ports and Natura 2000' was the fifth workshop of the third phase of 'Paralia Nature'.

In the March/April issue you can read articles on the topics Baltic ports need more lobbying in Brussels, Focus on Central & Eastern Europe, St. Petersburg, what’s new in the ports? and a lot more

Finland’s only train ferry harbour the Port of Turku is continuously developing terminal and warehouse operations to support the rail traffic in the port. This significantly strengthens the position of the Turku economic region as a national distribution centre. TDC - Turku Distribution Centre is the centre of Scandinavian traffic in Finland. The latest development project is a logistics centre of 22,000 m2. completed in March in the port area. The building was constructed and is owned by the Port of Turku, and one of the world’s largest logistics companies Schenker Cargo undertakes to lease the premises for ten years