September 12th

• 08:00–09:00 — Registration and Welcome Coffee — Sponsored by American Bureau of Shipping
• 09:00–10:30 — Opening session — Opening table with authorities and government representatives, companies and institutions relevant to the development of inland navigation in Brazil
• 10:30–11:15 — Keynote speech I — Overview and perspectives of inland navigation in Brazil — Adalberto Tokarski — ANTAQ
• 11:15–12:00 — Keynote speech II — Classification of inland waterways in Latin America as a public policy tool — Azhar Jaimurzina — ECLAC United Nations
• 12:00–13:30 — Lunch
• 13:30–15:30 — Panel 1 — Shipbuilding for inland vessels
  • Shipbuilding pole of Pará state — Alexandre Araújo — ASPLAM - MPL PARÁ
  • Multiplier effect of the shipbuilding industry for the regional economy — Fabio Vasconcelos — SINCONAPA
  • The role of UFPA in the development of shipbuilding in the Amazon basin — Pedro Lameira — FENAV - UFPA
• 15:30–15:50 — Coffee break and networking
• 15:50–17:50 — Panel 2 — Inland waterway logistic
  • The bulk transport operation in the Northern Arc — George Takahashi — LDCOM
  • Perspectives for container operations in the Amazon Basin — To be confirmed — Aliança Navegação
• 18:00–19:00 — Cocktail (sponsorship open)

September 13th

• 08:30–10:00 — Technical session I and II
• 10:00–10:30 — Coffee break and networking
• 10:30–12:00 — Technical session III and IV
• 10:30–12:00 — Panel 3 — International Panel on Amazonian Waterways
  • Ecuadorian fluvial transportation — Fernando Rodas Cornejo — Ministry of Transport and Public Works
  • Planing of waterways in Peru and perspectives of regional integration in South America — Jorge Luis Ramírez Rosas — UNI
  • Development of inland waterway transport in Colombia — Juan Alberto Caicedo Caicedo — Ministry of Transport
  • The Ports and Waterways of the Amazon for integration of South America — Hito Braga de Moraes — FENAV - UFPA
• 12:00–13:30 — Lunch
• 13:30–15:30 — Panel 4 — Applied technology for inland navigation
  • Technical solutions for ship energy efficiency — Mário de Luna Barbosa —  Wartsilla
  • Data analysis for operational efficiency in inland navigation — Daniel Andrade — Sotreq
  • Synthetic cables for mooring of waterway convoy — Genil Mazza — Navalex
  • Application of azimuthal propulsion to fluvial pushers — To be confirmed — Schottel
  • Navigation safety and information systems — Lucas Correa —  Wartsilla
• 15:30–16:00 — Coffee break and networking
• 16:00–18:00 — Round table 1 — Naval engineering
  • To be confirmed — DPC
  • Rosa Padroni — FATEC
  • Juarez Costa — CREA - Costa Mar
  • Heitor Lima — SOBENA - Projemar
  • Luis Mattos — SOBENA - RBNA Consult
• 20:00 — Seminar dinner
  • Restaurant to be confirmed (by adhesion)

September 14th

• 08:30–10:00 — Technical session V and VI
• 10:00–10:30 — Coffee break and networking
• 10:30–12:00 — Technical session VII and VIII
• 10:30–12:00 — Panel 5 — Energy efficiency and river electric mobility
  • Energy efficiency and river electric mobility — Gordon Wilmsmeier — UNIANDES
  • This is the first solar canoe of the Amazon — Oliver Utne — Kara Solar
  • Solar Team Brazil — Alexandre T. de Pinho Alho — UFRJ
  • To be confirmed — José Jara — Tratural
• 12:00–13:30 — Lunch
• 13:30–15:30 — Panel 6 — Development of navigation in the northern bar of Amazonas
  • Almte. Murilo Barbosa — ATP
  • Almte. de Esquadra Paulo Cezar de Quadros Kuster — DPC
  • Susana Vinzon and Marcos Nicolás Gallo — UFRJ
  • Clythio Van Buggenhout — Cargill
  • Luiz Otavio Oliveira Campos — National Secretary of Ports
• 15:30–16:00 — Coffee break and networking
• 16:00–18:00 — Panel 7 — Safety of Waterway Navigation
  • The role of the Port Authority of the Eastern Amazon — Cmte. Santiago — CPAOR
  • The role of the pilots in the the safety of inland navigation — Fernando Câmara — Unipilot
  • Security Challenges in Inland Navigation — Eduardo Carvalho — MPL PARÁ / SINDARPA
  • The application of York-Antwerp rules for convoy accidents in the Amazon Basin — Rucemah Pereira