Port Of Rotterdam Authority Launches Unique Program For Future Port Executives

On 3 February 2020, the first group of participants will take part in the Port Executive Leadership Circle. During an intensive week, they will be given the opportunity to update their port-related knowledge at an academic level as well as share knowledge with each other.

The transition from fossil to renewable fuels, process automation and creating employment, transforming old ports into attractive urban areas: these are the complex challenges not only facing Rotterdam but all port cities worldwide.

“To make ports and port authorities future proof, new port executives need new qualities. By offering a joint study programme, we can share our knowledge and skills with the port executives of the future and thus ensure that ports have maximum impact on society,” says Allard Castelein, CEO Port of Rotterdam Authority.

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“Combining academic insights from Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus Centre for Urban Port and Transport Economics with the practical knowledge of the port generates special interaction. And we need that because the challenges we are facing in Rotterdam require special, integrated solutions for which we look beyond the borders of our own disciplines. Through regional co-creation, we ensure a Sustainable Rotterdam Delta,” says Rutger Engels, Rector Magnificus at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Port Executive Leadership Circle

Future port executives will meet in the Port Executive Leadership Circle for an intensive week’s programme from 3 to 7 February 2020. Unlike most leadership programmes, the Port Executive Leadership Circle uses cases that are contributed by the participants themselves. An academic approach is taken to these complex problems so that the participants can learn to understand them better in their totality and start to work on possible solutions.

Another thing that makes the programme special is the personalised development process. From the in-depth personal intake to the development of tailored study material based on the input of participants and the follow-up of individual leadership programmes later.

“You don’t just learn in the programme, you actively contribute by sharing your knowledge. In this way, we create an ongoing learning circle of people who are dedicated to changing the leadership in the port,” says Dr Hannes Leroy, academic director of Erasmus Centre for Leadership.

Reference: portofrotterdam.com

Source: Maritime Shipping News