Baltic Ports Conference
Day 1: 7 October 2025

Times: they are a-changing (but they always have)

8:30 – 9:00

Registration and morning coffee

8:30 – 9:00
9:00 – 9:20

Moderator: Bogdan Ołdakowski, Secretary General, Baltic Ports Organization

Welcoming speeches:

  • Baltic Ports Organization, Port of HaminaKotka (CONFIRMED): Kimmo Naski, Chairman / CEO & Port Counselor
  • Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland (CONFIRMED): Arkadiusz Marchewka, Secretary of State
  • City of Gdańsk (CONFIRMED): Piotr Grzelak, Deputy Mayor for Sustainable Development and Economy
  • Port of Gdańsk Authority (CONFIRMED): Alan Aleksandrowicz, Vice-President of the Management Board for finance and security
9:00 – 9:20
9:20 – 11:00

Moderator: Bogdan Ołdakowski, Secretary General, Baltic Ports Organization

Session I: How the times are (should be) changing – exactly

Keynote speech: The role(s) of new/old Europe in the upcoming global showdown

  • Center for Strategic Studies, Warsaw Enterprise Institute (CONFIRMED): Łukasz Wojdyga, Director

Presentation: Today’s and future port market

Cargo is king (but is it everything?) – panel feedback:

  • Port of Gdańsk Authority (CONFIRMED): Maksymilian Czapiewski, Account Manager
  • Freeport of Riga (CONFIRMED): Edgars Suna, Deputy CEO for Port Development Matters
  • Port of Södertälje (CONFIRMED): Per Fredman, VP Sales and Marketing

Presentation: Operation of Ukrainian seaports under war conditions

  • State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (CONFIRMED): Vitalii Vaidych, Head of Investments and Public-Private Partnership Department of the Head Office

Official signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority and the Baltic Ports Organization

9:20 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30
11:30- 12:45

Moderator: Przemek Myszka, Editor in Chief, Baltic Transport Journal

Session II: Times are greening

(Very brief) Presentation: Baltic Green Map + Catalogue

Presentation: Striking while the wind is hot

  • Sarens (CONFIRMED): Enrika Uusitalo, Business Development, Baltic Offshore Wind

Presentation: Investing in green tonnage – ceaselessly

  • Finnlines (CONFIRMED): Johanna Luoma, Environment and Sustainability Manager, Ship Management

Planting innovation in ports & shipping – panel feedback:

Conference announcement

11:30- 12:45
12:45 – 13:45

Lunch break

12:45 – 13:45
13:45 – 15:00

Moderator: Sandra Baniak-Stachowiak, Senior Fellow, Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland

Session III: Times are …?

Presentation: Blue Supply Chains – how to support port authorities and port operators to decarbonise port operations?

Presentation: How DigiTechPort2030 is Driving Smart, Sustainable Growth in Small Ports through Digital Innovation and Green Technologies

  • Wismar University & Blekinge Institute of Technology (CONFIRMED): Elizaveta Diatlova,

    Research Assistant, European Project Center, Wismar University & Lawrence Henesey, Assistant Professor

Global challenges & local solutions (or vice versa?) – panel feedback:

  • Port of Ystad (CONFIRMED): Björn Boström​, Managing Director 
  • OFF-DOCK Gdansk (CONFIRMED): Oksana Antipa, Customer Relations and Maritime Logistics Coordinator
  • WindEurope (CONFIRMED): Giles Dickson, CEO
  • Baltic Hub (CONFIRMED): Marcin Kamola, Senior Commercial Manager – Marketing and Strategy
13:45 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:00

BaltExpo tour

15:30 – 17:00
15:30 – 16:30

General Assembly (only for BPO Members)

15:30 – 16:30
20:00 – 24:00

Salmon Evening

Salmon Evening is a prestigious networking event accompanying the BALTEXPO fair. Its main goal is to integrate the marine environment in a friendly, sociable atmosphere that promotes the exchange of experiences and inspires the establishment of relationships.

Gdańsk International Fair – AMBEREXPO

Żaglowa 11, 80-560 Gdańsk, Poland 

20:00 – 24:00
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