This plenary session will explore financing mechanisms and strategies that support innovative projects in port cities, highlighting successful models and challenges in mobilizing resources for sustainable development.
This plenary session will explore financing mechanisms and strategies that support innovative projects in port cities, highlighting successful models and challenges in mobilizing resources for sustainable development.
TBC After more than 15 years in the shipping industry, Jean-Frédéric Laurent was appointed Director of Strategy and Development at the Grand Port Maritime de Dunkerque (France) in 2010, then interim Chairman of the Board in 2014, where he played a key role in setting up new industrial sites.
In 2014, he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Grand Port Maritime de La Réunion (France), where he steered the implementation of a regional container transshipment hub. In 2018, when he took over as CEO of the Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux (France), he defined a new strategy that combines the renewal of the port's economic model with the integration of the ecological and energy transitions.