Tomorrow Friday, November 9 will be held the closing ceremony of the XII Ibero -American Course of Technology, Operations and Environmental Management in Ports that has been developed in the last month and has been aimed at professionals from the port field coming from eleven Latin American countries .
José Llorca, president of Ports of the State, will be in charge of imparting the paper of the closing of the course, which will be entitled ‘Spanish ports in the current economic situation. Future challenges ’. José Joaquín Martínez Sieso, president of the Port Authority of Santander; Maryse Robert, Chief, A.I., Commerce Section of the Inter -American Ports Commission of the Organization of American States; Juan Enrique Varona Alabern, Vice Chancellor for Institutional Relations and Coordination of Cantabria International Deala University of Cantabria, and María Cruz Díaz Álvarez, Vice Chancellor for Short Courses and University Extension of the UIMP.
This course, which has been an International Cooperation Initiative between Ports of the State, on behalf of the Spanish Port System, and the Inter -American Ports Commission of the Organization of American States, has been developed with the collaboration of the Port Authority of Santander, the University of Cantabria and the Menéndez Pelayo International University in the framework of Cantabria International Campus.
Throughout the 175th hours of the course, attendees have participated in different theoretical and practical activities on different aspects of technology, operations and environmental management of Spanish ports. In addition, they have visited different port facilities such as those of the ports of Santander, Gijón and Bilbao, or research centers and specialized training such as the Institute of Environmental Hydraulics “IH Cantabria” or the Jovellanos Integral Maritime Security Center.