Webinar 1: Ship Management – time to break the mould
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Shipping’s traditional business model, which can best be described as risk-averse and short-termist, isn’t working. Sector leaders acknowledge that container shipping has seen no decent profitability for more than a decade. And in volatile dry and wet bulk markets, profitability is at best transitory. As a result, the finance for transforming investment is just not there.
It’s time to rethink the connection between traditional ship ownership and ship management. Although less than one in five merchant vessels is managed by third-party businesses, the investment in these companies in next-generation technology has been huge.
The largest managers now control between 500 and 1,000 ships, have access to thousands of dedicated seafarers, recruit from among the brightest technical innovators, and are seen as trusted partners by technology, financial, cargo-owning, and non-maritime interests. To understand the future of ship management is to understand the future of shipping.
How are ship managers engaging with new technology? What are the trends in crewing and shore-side staffing? Which managers are driving change, and which are choosing to remain on the traditional path? What will ship management look like at the end of the next decade?
Join us on this Lloyd’s List webinar, in association with Wallem Group, moderated by Chief correspondent Richard Clayton.
SPEAKERS
Capt Frank Coles
Chief Executive Officer
Wallem Group
Capt Graham Westgarth
Chief Executive Officer
V.Group
Mark O’Neil
CEO
Columbia Ship Management
Richard Clayton - MODERATOR
Chief Correspondent
Lloyd’s List
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Webinar 2: 2020 – a year of challenge and change
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The year 2020 has been eagerly anticipated by the maritime business for the switch to a low-sulphur fuel environment. Preparations have been ongoing and, with no quarter given for poor planning, the first quarter of the year is expected to be dominated by fuel quality issues.
How significant will this be beyond Q1? What will the rest of the year hold? No doubt geopolitical tension will be on-going, focusing on sanctions in the Middle East, trade spats between the US and China and trade talks involving the European Union and its neighbours.
And no doubt 2020 will continue to experience consolidation as the sulphur cap drives bunker costs higher, reducing profitability on markets that remain volatile. Which sectors are most likely to see partnerships forming? Where will lack of agility lead to financial pain? Who will invest in technology that promises much but fails to deliver?
Then there’s the look beyond 2020 into the medium-term. With IMO’s ambitious goals for 2050 already in place, bringing further cost but only limited benefit to operating revenue, will shipping begin on the quest for greener fuels early – with the first steps in 2020 – or leave it until the next generation of ships emerges from naval architects’ CAD/CAM systems?
The year ahead will inevitably be a year of challenge and change, but could it also be a year of opportunity? Find out on this Lloyd’s List webinar, in association with Wallem Group, moderated by Chief correspondent Richard Clayton.
SPEAKERS
Capt Frank Coles
Chief Executive Officer
Wallem Group
Anne Hedensted Steffensen
Director General & CEO
Danish Shipping
Tiejha Smyth
Deputy Director (FD&D)
North P&I Club
Michelle Wiese Bockmann
Senior Reporter
Lloyd’s List
Richard Clayton - MODERATOR
Chief Correspondent
Lloyd’s List
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