The 5^th meeting of the APSN Council was held on November 6-7, 2012 in Hong Kong, China. The meeting is kindly being sponsored by Marine Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). In addition to the 16 APSN Council Members respectively from Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia;

As a highlight, the first Advisory Board meeting was held back to back to the fifth Council meeting, which will bring together industry leaders from port and port-related industries in the Asia-Pacific region to exchange and communicate on issues of common concern.