On June 18 and 19, the Port Autonome de Strasbourg hosted the first meeting of the AIVP River Port Cities working group. Led by Bruno Delsalle, General Manager, and Noémi Mené, Project Manager in charge of the working group, the group brought together some fifteen people to identify the specific challenges facing river port cities, and to begin exploring possible solutions. On the first day, presentations from the floor were followed by a lively exchange of views, demonstrating the issues shared by participants despite the diversity of local contexts. The Port of Strasbourg presented its strategic plan, inviting ports to be a force of proposition in the composition of…