The UMF runs its action through 6 working committees: - Oil, liquid bulk and chemistry - Promotion of the petrochemical sector - Breakbulk - Solid bulk - Professional training - Quality charter.
Oil, liquid bulk and chemistry
President: Cédric MOROT-BIZOT
Objectives: Gather all the operators of the sector on a regular basis in order to:
- Provide an overview of the flows and activities in our basins, and of the development of competing ports
- Report the common issues of present operators and find solutions
Meeting schedule: Bimonthly
Operators: industrialists of the sector, shipping agents, hauliers, GPMM, Marine Affairs, Customs, …
File: Clearance working group - Identify the missing informations in a common document, so as to notify the charterers and study the possibility of welcoming ships in the best possible conditions.
- Detail of the terminal
- Plan détaillé du quai
- Detailed map of the dock
- Map of the technical facilities
Promotion of the petrochemical sector
Objectives: Promote the features of Marseille-Fos (facilities and activities of the sector) and work on portraying a positive image of the sector
Meeting schedule: Quarterly
File: Inception and involvement in promotional events
Tankbank: International conference of the petrochemical storage sector, for the first time in Marseille on the 21st and 22nd of June 2018
UMF panel discussion: Innovation and energy transition - The problem of funding in maritime and port industries (June 21st 2018)
EPCA (European Petro Chemical Association) congress: Via Marseille Fos attends it every year since 2016
PGLC (Petrochemicals Global Logistics Convention): held by the UMF on the 20th and 21st of June 2019
Breakbulk
President: Jean Claude SARREMEJEANNE
Objectives: bring the professionals of the sector together through the promotion of this evolving industry, in cooperation with GPMM
Achievements:
- Communication media (PowerPoint, presentation leaflet in French and English, video, news bulletins, conventional advertisement), along with the communication department of GPMM
- Active preparation for the Breakbulk promotional actions of VMF
- Promotional workshop for the Breakbulk sector in Lyon on September 24th 2018
Upcoming: Next Breakbulk convention in Bremen on 21-23 May 2019
Solid bulk
President: Matthieu CORRIEZ
Objectives: Promote the features of Marseille-Fos (facilities and activities of the sector) and work on portraying a positive image of the sector
Meeting schedule: Quarterly
File: Involvement in promotional events while working in coordination with new sectors
Pollutec: Attendance at the Pollutec convention in 2018, in partnership with Via Marseille Fos
Waste sector: effort in understanding the potential of the waste sector (recycling and reclamation) in order to develop a new industrial sector in our basins.
Professional trainings
- Dangerous goods training, from entry level to confirmed level and renewal
- FONASBA training (exam centre)
- Port synergy training: a unique training in France which enables, in a very short time, a full grasp of the port chain, its professions and contributors. A training made by professionals for professionals.
Quality charter