Although shipping has been a vibrant industry for centuries, the changes in the global business and social landscape, brought on by the 4th industrial revolution, are causing many old truisms in the industry to fail.

During these two days we will take a closer look at the nature of the underlying changes, dive deeper into how this affects the shipping industry and understand why this is not a threat to the industry as a whole – but very clearly presents an existential threat to companies which fail to adapt to the changes.

And whilst the changes will clearly provide multiple threats, they are equally opening a range of new strategic opportunities – both for existing stakeholders such as shipping lines, brokers, ports etc. as well as for new emerging players, especially in the digital realm. The opportunities abound for large players and niche players alike must be embraced and harnessed.