Ireland : Senior port managers from developing countries who are passing on their expertise to colleagues met Ireland’s President Michael D. Higgins in Dublin, Ireland, on 21 June during a week-long Training of Trainers workshop .
Mr. Higgins welcomed the managers from ports in Indonesia, Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria, and the Philippines which are members of the English-speaking network of UNCTAD’s Train for Trade port management programme. Prospective members from Serbia and a former member from Namibia were also present.
“As an island nation, almost uniquely dependent on international trade, we in Ireland know and value the importance of our ports, and all who work there,” Mr. Higgins said during a reception at Áras an Uachtaráin, his official residence.
The workshop was co-organized by Dublin Port Company, with the support of Port of Cork Company and Belfast Harbour Commissioners and held at the head office of Dublin Port Company and the National College of Ireland.
