HAVANA.- The Cuba chapter of the Pan-American Institute of Naval Engineering (IPIN) is taking place Thursday and Friday in Havana, to exchange experiences on maritime transport, and naval and port engineering.

IPIN-Cuba vice president Amado Galeano told Prensa Latina that in this forum, the 2018 Annual Scientific Conference of that entity, also intends to provide an adequate context for the search of joint common lines.

The opening includes two lectures, related to data, information and knowledge in the analysis of maritime trade, and the Maritime Authority of Cuba, functions, actions and perspectives. The latter will allow knowing the scope of an institution founded as a result of the business restructuring in the Ministry of Transport, venue of the event.

According to Galeano, there will be three technical committees: Naval design and construction, rules and standardization; Maritime transport, fishing, transitional, ports and education; and Risk analysis, in which more than 20 papers will be discussed.

The IPIN-Cuba chapter, founded in 1995, is composed of 450 individual partners and 18 groups (companies and institutes), its vice president said. Galeano also informed that Cuba will host in 2021 the 28th Pan-American Congress of Naval Engineering, sponsored by IPIN, an institution to which about 20 nations of the region belong.