Nico De Cauwer has been appointed Secretary General of the Internationally Port Community Systems Association (IPCSA), a worldwide network of Sea and Air Port Community System operators.
Cauwer will formally take over as Secretary-General on 1 May, after serving as Business Architect Port Community Solutions at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and as a long-time active representative of IPCSA.
He will remain in his existing post at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges while also taking up his new role at IPCSA for an initial two-year period.
Nico will replace Richard Morton, who passed away in 2022 having served as Secretary General since IPCSA was founded in 2011 as the European Port Community Systems Association.