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ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

Inter-American Council for Integral Development CIDI

TWENTY SIXTH MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OAS/Ser.L/XX.1.26

OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON PORTS CECIP/doc.5/26

March 12, 2026 March 12 2026

Virtual Meeting Original: English ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE CHAIR OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE INTERAMERICAN COMMITTEE ON PORTS (CECIP) June 2023 - December 2025

(approved during the first plenary session) The Plan of Action of Roatan (2023 – 2026) laid out, as a general objective, “to advance toward the development of competitive, secure, sustainable, and inclusive ports to ensure comprehensive development in the Americas with the active participation of the private sector”. In pursuit of the objectives of the Plan of Action of Roatan, the most important efforts made by Barbados as CECIP Chair, for the reporting period, were devoted to activities for: a) Building human and institutional capabilities. b) Facilitating political port dialogue between authorities and public and private institutions. c) Providing and promoting technical assistance at hemispheric conferences. In support of those objectives and those of the CIP-OAS, the Chair’s actions were geared toward monitoring and proposing initiatives for the management and operation of the Committee, with the support of the CIP Secretariat. Against that backdrop, the following actions were particularly notable: d) Specifications to the CIP Rules of Procedure. e) Adjustment to the annual contributions to the CIP Special Port Program The activities undertaken during this period are detailed below. The CECIP Chair is grateful for the support given by the Chief of the CIP Secretariat, Mr. Jorge Durán, and his team of collaborators, to the First Vice-chair of the CECIP, Mr. Juan Curbelo del Bosco and to rest of the

CECIP Authorities. a) Building human and institutional capabilities Barbados Port Inc. congratulates the authorities of the TAG for contributing to institutional capacity-building through face-to-face, online, or mixed-mode courses. In particular, it acknowledges the efforts of the National Port Authority (APN) of Peru for providing training to the Hemisphere’s port officials through its Virtual Port Campus and the National Port TrainingCenter (CENCAPOR) of Argentina for providing training to the Hemisphere’s port officials through its online platform. It also congratulates the CIP Secretariat for expanding its Scholarship and Capacity Building Program by collaborating with institutions such as APEC-Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center and the Caribbean Maritime University, which will provide scholarships to strengthen the institutional capacities of the National Port Authorities of the hemisphere. b) Facilitating political port dialogue between authorities and public and private institutions Barbados Port Inc. has attended the CIP’s political meetings, including the Thirteenth Regular Meeting of the CIP in which Barbados was elected as CECIP Chair for the period 2023 – 2026, as well as the 24th and 25th CECIP Meeting. Also, Barbados, in its capacity as Chair of the CECIP, participated as speaker and/or moderator in the following CIP events:  Webinar on Port Community System Implementation: Part I, held on July 13, 2023  6 th Hemispheric Conference on Sustainable Port Management and Environmental Protection held January 17 – 19, 2024 in Veracruz, Mexico  Webinar on Disaster Risk Management for Port Resilience, held October 17, 2024  Regular Meeting of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), held October 29, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

 5 th Hemispheric Conference on Port Protection and Security, held October 30 – November 1 st, 2024, in Washington, D.C.  5 th Hemispheric Seminar on Public Policy, Legislation and Regulation, held November 6 – 8, 2024 in Guatemala City, Guatemala  Webinar on Sustainable Operations: Decarbonization of the Port-Maritime Sector – Part II held November 25, 2024  Webinar on Green and Efficient Ports: Adopting Sustainability and New Technologies, held July 10, 2025 In addition, Barbados attended all the Webinars organized by the CIP Secretariat in collaboration with its Associate Members and Strategic Partners. c) Provide and promote technical assistance at hemispheric conferences. The CECIP Chair, honoring its commitment, attended, and participated as speaker in the thee (3) Hemispheric Conferences held during 2024 for which it recognizes and applauds the excellent work done by the CIP Secretariat and the National Port Authorities of Mexico, Barbados and Guatemala and Peru.This presidency exhorts the National Port Authorities that have not yet held their hemispheric event to comply with the obligations acquired in the Plan of Action of Roatan and consider, if necessary, to hold these events virtually. As CECIP chair, dedicated to participating in activities that involve technical assistance and development of actions framed in the public-private relation, Barbados commits to attend and participate, where required, in the hemispheric events that the TAGs’ Chairs plan to hold during 2026. Barbados recognizes the initiative of the CIP Secretariat and the excellent work of the Maritime Policy Bureau (MPB) in the development of the Comparative Study on Maritime-Port Concessions, which covers 10 Member States. This Chair also congratulates the CIP Secretariat for the Project on Improved Disaster Risk

Management for Caribbean Ports – Phase 2 and acknowledges the generous support of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) as an institution financially supporting this second phase of the project. d) Specifications to the CIP Rules of Procedure Barbados in its capacity as CECIP Chair requested the CIP Secretariat to engage the services of a third party to specify the CIP Rules of Procedure. These specifications were made with the objective of avoiding any possible misinterpretations. Several specifications were made to several articles of the Rules of Procedure. The most relevant changes are:

1. Specifications to who represents a CECIP Authority.

2. Specifications on what a “majority vote” is.

3. Specifications on how many National Port Authorities comprise the CECIP.

Barbados Port Inc. thanks the CIP Secretariat and LATINAMERICA Abogados for their support in specifying the Rules of Procedure and all the National Port Authorities that comprise the CECIP for supporting these changes. e) Adjustment to the annual contributions to the CIP Special Port Program During the 24 th CECIP Meeting held virtually on September 26, 2023, Barbados proposed an adjustment of USD $2,000 to the annual contributions to the CIP Special Port Program. This adjustment is set to be voluntary for the years 2024 and 2025 and mandatory starting 2026. The proposal was approved by the delegations of Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, United States and Uruguay. The rest of the CECIP countries had no objection and therefore the adjustment was approved by the CECIP and will be approved ad-referendum during the XIV Regular CIP Meeting to be held in 2026.Barbados wishes to thank those CECIP authorities who made an effort to pay the voluntary contribution during 2024 and 2025 and exhorts the remaining CECIP members to do the same, if possible.