Edouard Philippe elected President of AIVP

On Thursday 25 November, at the General Meeting of the Association Internationale Villes et Ports (AIVP), the Board of Directors elected Mr Edouard Philippe, Mayor of Le Havre, as its new President.Mr Philippe Matthis, Chief Executive of the Port of Brussels and outgoing President of AIVP, offered his congratulations to his successor.The new President then officially took up his new role immediately in a brief ceremony. Edouard Philippe thanked Philippe Matthis warmly for his six years of service at the helm of AIVP. Under his leadership, the organisation embarked on a new strategy with a greater emphasis on providing a service to members, and adopted a sustainable development approach in the form of the “AIVP 2030 Agenda”.Edouard Philippe had the following message: “The task of continuing to build the profile and influence of AIVP, founded 30 years ago in Le Havre,…