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Share Ideas about ‘Environmentally-friendly Harbor, Sustainable City'
- Port-city Universities League (PUL) opened its annual conference in PKNU for four days and three nights.
The consultative group for the development of harbors and innovation of world marine technology named PUL (Port-city Universities League) opened its seventh meeting which was scheduled for four days and three nights in the meeting room of Pukyong National University at 11am on the morning of October 17, 2013.
The conference opened with the subject ‘Environmentally-friendly harbor in Pukyong National University as the first in Korea, sustainable city', one hundred experts from ten universities in eight different countries that have famous harbor cities such as Shanghai in China, Yokohama in Japan, London in England, Istanbul in Turkey, Lisbon in Portugal, Madras in India, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and Busan and Incheon in Korea attended this meeting.
The participating universities were Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Dalian University of Technology from China, Yokohama National University from Japan, University of Southampton from England, Istanbul Technical University from Turkey, University of Lisbon from Portugal, HCMC University of Technology from Vietnam, Indian Institute of Technology Madras from India, and Pukyong National University and Incheon National University from Korea.
After the opening ceremony, the participants had some time for presentations and debates about environmentally-friendly shipbuilding technology. Then in the afternoon they discussed the environment and resources. The next day, they attended presentations about distribution and maritime law, ecological cities and environmentally-friendly harbors, marine culture and tourism, and marine science and technology. They also had a public debate about a cooperation plan between Korea, China, and Japan's harbors. On the nineteenth, the experts had a PUL general meeting and field trip of Busan harbor, and they had an eco tour around Nakdong River Barrier on the last day.
Yamada, the vice president of Yokohama National University where the PUL executive office is located, said in his opening speech on October 17 that PUL has been improving its status as a place of exchanging information about harbors and city improvements since it was established in 2006.
"I hope that we can contribute to the improvement of marine science and city improvement by exchanging environmentally-friendly ideas in this meeting," Kim Young-Seup, the president of PKNU, said.<Pukyong today>
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