BPO is happy to annouce that TransBaltic project has been approved by the Monitoring Committee without any budget cuts. This is a very good news for all involved in the project preparation, including the BPO.

To tackle environmental challenges and promote economic growth in the Baltic Sea Region - these two ambitious objectives are at the core of the Baltic Sea Strategy that the EU aims to present under the Swedisch European Council Presidency in the second half of 2009.

The Annual Baltic Ports Conference is the most important event for the members when 70-100 participants come together. Previously the host of the event was Port of Lübeck, now the duties of a co-organizer are to be taken over by the Port of Aarhus.

Read here a request for expression of interest concerning cooperation on facilitation of intermodal goods transport with a maritime leg in the Baltic Sea Area (“Motorways of the Sea”-project)

In the current economic climate, do we stop talking to one another, stay at home and hope the sun shines again sometime in the future? Or do we take the bull by the horns and go to Coastlink to meet people in the same boat and come up with positive ideas and how we can get our Companies to move forward in a positive climate?

Summary from III BPO Seminar on EU Baltic Sea Strategy - how does it strengthen the region development.

Third BPO Seminar in a row is organized on 1st April 2009 in European Parliament. This year's subject brings us closer to new EU Baltic Sea Strategy and how it strengthen the region development.

Baltic Ports Organization is partnering the event.

Port Finance international is pleased to announce the second event in the highly anticipated series of leading Port Finance events. BPO has become a Partner of the event.

The first BPO report on Baltic seaports (The Baltic Seaports Outlook 2007, Gdynia, December 2007), which was warmly welcomed by BPO members, inspired the BPO Secretariat and the BPO General Assembly in September 2008 to elaborate a new updated report, relating to the same issues which were presented in the first one.

Following on from the success of the CPF 2008, MastersWise is delighted to announce the CPF 2009-Port and Shipping Dialog will be held on March 26 - 27 2009 at the Sofitel JinJiang Oriental Hotel, Shanghai China. BPO endorsed the event.

Per Schmidt goes into retirement from the Copenhagen Malmö Port AB from 1st March 2009, same day which he celebrates his 25th Anniversary in the Port. He was instrumental in stating up BPO and was the Secretary General the first 12 years of operation.

To meet sea region market’s demands halfway Baltic Ports Organization (BPO) organized the BPO Seminar on Onshore Energy Supply that was held in Tallinn on 14th January 2009 and gathered about 35 participants including ports representatives, international organizations, shipping lines, global leaders in supplying innovative power supply solutions, research institutions and more.