International Association of Ports and Harbors (1)

On 7 November 1955, the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) was founded in Los Angeles, U.S.A., where 126 delegates from 38 ports and port organizations in 15 countries gathered to celebrate the birth of this worldwide body of ports and harbors. We owe a debt of gratitude to the founding fathers of IAPH for their farsighted recognition of the need for ports in the world to be united. The past four decades and a half have seen IAPH steadily grow and develop as a truly leading organization of the global port community representing, if not all, a majority of ports and harbors in the world. It is a non-profit-making and non-governmental organization (NGO) headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.