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Gothenburg 2015

Opening Conference

IMSF programme 2015

Pictures from the conference

 

Session One - SHIPPING MARKETS, TRADE AND COMMODITY DEMAND

Wally Mandryk - Lloyd's List Intelligence - Crude oil trading patterns: Trends and tonne-mile assessments

Patrick Tye - E A Gibson Shipbrokers - Prospects for the clean products market

Frans Waals - Dynamar- Update on container markets

Russell Thompson - Tradeviews - Latest trends in dry cargo trade

 

Session Two - SHIPPING COSTS - FUEL, SHIP DESIGNS, PORT CONGESTION

Per Stefenson - Stena Rederi AB - Methanol as marine fuel

Roar Adland - Norwegian School of Economics - Microeconomic drivers of drybulk timecharter rates - implications for data collection

Haakon Lindstad - Marintek - SOx regulation - Intended and unintended consequences

Niklas Bengtsson - maritime-insight - Global oil prices - market drivers and implications

Per Marcusson - Rolls-Royce Marine - Do monthly shipbuilding development correlate to oilprice, GDP & earnings?

Patrice Côté - Transports Canada - Port indicators and transit time analysis

Colin Cridland - Clarksons - Port delays, vessel speeds, idle tonnage

 

Session Three -SHIPBUILDING: MANAGING SUPPLY, SHIPBUILDING TRENDS

Sasan Mameghani - Yard Intel - Automated estimation of missing milestones in a vessels building schedule

Urszula Kowalczyk - Maritime Institute of Gdansk - Trends of shipbuilding sector in Europe based on the Polish example

Jakub Walenkiewicz - DNV GL - Newbuilding forecast. Time to re-think our assumptions

Argyrios Stasinakis - MarineTraffic - Shipping supply: maritime intelligence derived by global ship position datasets

 

Session Four - UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Pierre Cariou - International Association of Maritime Economists - Update on the International Association of Maritime Economists

Chris Palsson - Chairman of the IMSF - IMSF projects and discussion topics

Alex Gray - IHS Maritime & Trade - An overview of current initiatives in play to deal with Illegal, Unrecorded and Unregulated (IUU) fishing

Rickard Lindström - Clean Shipping Index - CSI project presentation