Founder managing partner and CEO of Maritime Policy Bureau rejoins IAPH
IAPH announces the appointment of Guimara Tuñón Guerra as Development Director for the Central and South America Region. With more than twenty years of experience in the maritime and port sectors, she has worked across public and private institutions in the fields of port operations, maritime transportation, logistics, and maritime business administration. Guimara is more than a familiar face at the Association, having occupied the role as IAPH Regional Vice President for this region between 2017 and 2019. She served IAPH during her tenure as General Director of Ports and Maritime Ancillary Industries of Panama Maritime Authority, also serving as Panama delegate to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), and Organization of American States (OAS). She currently occupies the role of managing partner and CEO of Maritime Policy Bureau, which is a consulting firm in maritime policy and innovation, including sustainability and port leadership. She is also Dean of the School of Business, Logistics and Tourism at the Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua (USMA) in Panama City.
IAPH Managing Director Patrick Verhoeven commented: “we are delighted that Guimara has accepted this newly-created role to strengthen our presence in this vital region of the world for our association. She has the advantage of having worked at board level in our organisation and her consultancy Maritime Policy Bureau has been a long-standing associate member. We have seen the positive impact of our Regional Representative of India Ennarasu Karunesan in bringing Indian members onboard and ensuring they are highly active in IAPH, and intend to replicate this with Guimara’s appointment for Central and South America.” Vinicius Patel, Regional VP for Central and South America and Director of Port Administration of the Port of Açu, Brazil commented: “the incorporation of Guimara to our region is an important step forward in realising our ambitions to ensure greater engagement by our regular port members and associate members as well as the expansion of membership in the Caribbean, Central and South America. With Brazil hosting COP30 later this year in Belém where IAPH will play a key role in representing global port interests, this year is a perfect opportunity for Latin American ports to highlight their role in the energy transition, digitalisation and improved resilience in our industry.”
About IAPH
Founded in 1955, the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) has developed into a global alliance of 191 port authorities as well as 165 port-related businesses. Comprised of over 80 different nationalities across the world’s continents, member ports handle over one third of the world’s sea-borne trade and well over 60% of the world container traffic. IAPH leads global port industry initiatives on decarbonisation and energy transition, risk and resilience management, and accelerating digitalisation in the maritime transport chain. The IAPH’s World Ports Sustainability Program has grown into the reference database of best practices of ports applying the UN Sustainable Development Goals and integrating them into their businesses - iaphworldports.org.