The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and AFREXIMBANK has invited the Secretary General of the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) Dr. Paul Adalikwu as a keynote speaker at the Africa Maritime and Logistics Conference holding in Egypt on November 9 , 2023.
In a letter jointly signed by the Secretary General of AfCFTA, Wamkele Mene and President and Chairman of AFREXIMBANK Board of Directors, Professor Benedict Oramah, the MOWCA Secretary General is being invited to lead the discourse on “Peculiarities of the African Maritime Industry – Scope, Challenges and Opportunities”.
The conference which will be taking place on the sidelines of the Intra African Trade Fair 2023 with the theme “Connecting African Markets” according to the organisers, is intended to facilitate trade and investment information exchange in support of increased intra African trade.
The International African Trade Fair which holds from November 9 to 15, 2023 will attract more than 1600 exhibitors; over 35,000 visitors, buyers and conference delegates from 55 countries from within and outside Africa.
Dr. Adalikwu’s presentation is expected to set the tone for deeper insight into the future and prospects of a viable continent wide maritime sector that will promote port to port interface between countries in Africa while profering solutions to maritime insecurity that tends to impede seamless vessel traffic.
The conference which will hold under the theme “Building a Robust African Maritime and Logistics Sector Towards a successful Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area” is one of the biggest trade related events on the continent.
The MOWCA Secretary General’s presentation shall also feature overview of the organisation’s confidence building interface with relevant governments and stakeholders in the global maritime community towards harnessing the many untapped maritime potentials for investment, job creation, leisure, aquaculture and others.
Adalikwu shall also bring participants to speed with efforts towards MOWCA evolving into an African Maritime Organisation (AMO) that will strengthen African voice in the International Maritime Organisation and other essential multilateral bodies and an overview of the revived MOWCA in the last two years.
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