BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a957d7168222 DTSTART:20170515T070000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20170515T150000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Suisse SUMMARY:Measuring Shipping Connectivity and Performance: The Need for Stati stics and Data CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (ASD)\, the Sus tainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement have emp hasized the need for all economic sectors\, including maritime transport t o monitor and measure performance and track progress towards the achieveme nt of relevant economic\, social and environmental targets.\n\nIndicators measuring the performance of the maritime transport sector with multidimen sional metrics spanning a range of factors (e.g. efficiency\, cost-effect iveness\, productivity\, profitability\, connectivity\, access\, social in clusiveness and environmental sustainability) are increasingly recognized as critical for maritime business and its users\, as well as for governmen ts and policy makers.\n\nAs developing key indicators depends heavily on t he availability and the quality of data and statistics\, addressing existi ng maritime transport data gaps requires investing in acquiring\, compilin g and making available and managing relevant data.\n\nAgainst this backgro und the UNCTAD secretariat is convening an ad hoc expert meeting on “Mea suring Shipping Connectivity and Performance: The Need for Statistics and Data"\;.\n\n\n\n \n\nRegister online for this meeting\n\nDownloads:\n\ n\n\nMeeting Registration Guidelines\n\nEnglish\n\n\nMap of Palais des Nat ions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe meeting will bring together experts from varied ba ckgrounds to discuss the role of data in supporting performance-based appr oaches in maritime transport and explore ways in which existing data limit ations can be effectively addressed to support improved and sustainable pl anning and management of maritime transport activity as well as promote ev idence-based maritime transport policy making.\n\nIn addition to the 2030 ASD and SDGs\, discussions will bear in mind the growing demand for data\, metrics and performance measures\, resulting from:\n\n\n\nThe focus in 20 17 on physical and transport connectivity as a lead indicator of trade and economic integration (e.g. WTO Aid for Trade Review\, work on air connect ivity under the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Internat ional Air Transport Association\, the Global Infrastructure Connectivity A lliance Initiative\, the International Transport Forum Summit 2017\, and t he UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2017).\n\n\nThe potential for Big D ata to generate critical maritime transport data.\n\n\n\nRelevant issues t o be considered include\, inter alia:\n\n\nIdentifying current data requir ements in maritime transport\nImproving understanding of the complex stati stical aspects of developing performance measures in maritime transport\nE xploring the challenges associated with organizing\, integrating and analy zing data in maritime transport\nSharing good practice and experiences in the use of data to measure performance including in terms of connectivity\ , access\, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability\nConsidering the potential for Big Data to generate critical maritime transport data\n Engaging with relevant data providers and considering areas of potential p artnership and cooperation\n\n\n \n\nRelated links:\n\nReview of Maritime Transport Series\n\nTransport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter\n\nLiner Shipping Connectivity Index\n\nSeaborne Trade\n\nWorld Merchant Fleet\n\n\ nhttps://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.MerchantFleet\n\nV iew meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/measuring-shipping-c onnectivity-and-performance-need-statistics-and-data DTSTAMP:20260831T131113Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR