Athens 2016

Opening Conference

IMSF programme 2016

Session One - SHIPPING MARKETS, TRADE AND COMMODITY DEMAND - IMPORTS, EXPORTS, TRADE, VOYAGE DISTANCES

Jakub Walenkiewicz - DNVGL - LNG Tankers - The moment of truth
Mariniki Psifia - Latsco - The VLGC Market

Angelica Kemene - Optima Shipbrokers - Outlook for the Dry Bulk Sector

Stavroula Betsakou - Howe Robinson - Insights into the Products tanker market (paper available to members only)

Marthe Sandvik - Lorentzen & Stemoco - Chemical tanker market

Foteini Kanellopoulou - Clarksons - Outlook for the Crude Tanker Market (paper available to members only)

Niklas Bengtsson - Lloyd's List Intelligence - Container market: the impact of China

Urszula Kowalczyck - Maritime Institute Gdansk - Common standards in the measurement of economic effects by cruise tourism

Session Two - FUTURE CHALLENGES: Metrics, data, forecasting

Niels Kristian Schmidt - Ultrabulk - Data Sources - and their limitations - for dry bulk market analysis

Claire Wright - Shell - Big Data in Shipping: Opportunities, Challenges, Case Studies

Alex Charvalias - Marine Traffic - Pattern analysis and Clustering techniques for AIS-based identification of laid up vessels

Panayotis Zacharioudakis - Ocean Finance - The importance of statistics on onshore and offshore maritime investments based on the findings of the PoseidonMed I&II and the Europa Ship Plan.

Katarina Gillblad - Agronomics - Grain Exports - Does looking at it this way make any sense?

Dalibor Gogic - IHS - Application of Advanced Analytics

Dr Maria Lekakou - University of the Aegean - Methodology for the assessment of Island connectivity in terms of passenger ferry transportation

Prof Konstantinos Raftopoulos - American College of Greece - Probabilistic Inference in Social Networks

Session Three - FUTURE FUELS: Emissions, choices, economics

Frederikke Munk Sorensen - MAN Diesel & Turbo - Prospects for alternative bunker fuels

Session Four - PORTS, SHIPBUILDING AND SAFETY

Pat Tye - Gibson Shipbrokers - Prospects for the enlargement of the Panama Canal

Foteini Kanellopoulou - Clarksons - Orderbook Contracting Dynamics (paper available to members only)
Eva Perez - Valencia Port Foundation - Trends and challenges for container ports

Anthony Doukas - Global Maritime Agency SA - European/Greek Ports Infrastructures for Car Carriers, Intermodal Synergies, and Transportation Combined Services

Dimitris Spyrou - Port Authority of Piraeus - Current Situation and Future Challenges

Alexandros Glykas - DYNAMARINe - Safety Statistics on Ship to Ship transfer operations - Best Practices - Incidents

The very successful 2016 annual meeting took place 9-11th May through the generosity of the ALBA Graduate Business School, Athens and the kindness of several local sponsors.