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Previous Annual Meeting

International Maritime Statistics Forum, Lisbon, 10th - 12th May 2010

SESSION ONE: Shipping Economics & Shipping Market Analysis

Niklas Bengtsson - IHS Fairplay - Global redesign - impact on shipbuilding and shipping

Colin Cridland - Clarksons - Tanker supply and demand trends

Jeffrey van der Gugten - Germanischer Lloyd

Bill Ebersold - Ebersold - Overview of the cruise shipping industry

Albert Veenstra - Erasmus University - The reliablity offreight rate indices in shipping

Frans Waals - Dynamar - The state of the container liner industry

Russ Byington - US Maritime Administration - Impact on N America of the changing pattern of int'l container services

Pierre Pochard - DNV - Newbuilding cancellations

Gary Morgan - Clarkson's - Shipbuilding: Good times ... Bad Times

Jakub Walenkiewicz - DNV - Shipbuilding market; up- and downside risk/potential

SESSION TWO: Logistics and Port Economics

Giuliano Amerini - Eurostat - Eurostat task force on intermodal transport and logistics

Hannu Kuikka - Finnish Transport Agency - PortNet: an instrument for maritime statistics

Eva Perez - Fundacion Valenciaport - LinePort: short sea shipping database of Spain-Europe/Med connections

SESSION THREE: Security, Safety and the Environment

Haakon Lindstad - Marintek - Challenges with CO2 targets for shipping

Chris Palsson - IHS Fairplay - Impact of sulphur cap on shipping in the North & Baltic Seas

Biagio Ciuffo - EC Joint Research Centre - Evaluating options to regulate air emissions from shipping

Erik Ranheim - Intertanko - Safety performance of tankers in differnt market condions

Robert Ashdown - Chamber of Shipping - Developing environment legistation needs development in data

Astrid Seltmann - CEFOR - How are hull claims trends affected by the financial crisis?

Ursula Kowalczyk - Maritime Institute, Gdansk - BSR (Baltic Sea Region)Maritime Safety, From Vision to Action

SESSION FOUR: Status Reports

Guiliano Amerini - Eurostat - Eurostat progress Report

Henrik Rigbom - EMSA - EMSA update

Astrid Seltmann - CEFOR - International Uniion of Maritime Insurance statistics overview

Doug McDonald -US Army Corps of Engineers - US Update