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Investment and Risk Management in Shipping 2008
 

Location: IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dates: 12 September - 13 September 2008

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Program Overview
The current shipping markets present more challenges and opportunities than ever before.  Shipping industry leaders – owners, senior managers, lenders, shippers and investors – need to steer a true course through the uncertainties and evaluate and control risk by objective standards.  The all-new Investment and Risk Management in Shipping, a three-day forum for in-depth discussion of fundamental shipping issues, will equip you to master the “headline challenges”.

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Who Attends This Program?

  • Principals and senior managers in shipping investment and risk management
  • Shipowners and their boards of directors
  • Senior financial officers
  • Business development teams
  • Principals of shipper organizations or cargo owners
  • CEOs of shipping finance institutions and their relationship and risk managers

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Networking
The joint Marsoft/IMD Investment and Risk Management in Shipping program attracts a unique range of decision makers from the major shipowning, chartering and financing sectors of the business.  The program offers an exceptional opportunity for networking with industry leaders from around the world and from all segments of the markets.  The networking, joint learning, and business opportunities offered by the program are unique and the IMD campus provides an outstanding environment for facilitating those opportunities.

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Choice of Sessions
In order to pursue your particular interests in-depth you have a choice from the following sessions:

 

Friday, September 12

Saturday, September 13

8:30-8:45 Welcome & Introduction Recap
8:45-9:00 Break
9:00-10:15 Plenary I
Business Development:
Recent Developments & Key Trends
Macro & Finance Dry Bulk Market Discussion
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45 Plenary II
Trade Dynamics & Global Turbulence
Panel & Discussion with WTO Ambassadors and Officials
Containership Market
Discussion
Tanker Market Discussion
11:45-12:00     Break
12:00-13:15 Plenary III
Base Case Scenarios Ideas & Themes
Plenary IV
Black Swans:
Assessing the Improbable to Survive the Unpredictable
13:15-14:15  Lunch
14:15-15:30 Organizational
Development
Shipyards Risk Management Governance:
Strategy, Role of the Board
   
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-17:00 Infrastructure Emissions Plenary V
Scenario Conclusions & Feedback
17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-18:30 Photo
Reception & Networking
Guest Speaker
Pascal Lamy
18:30 Dinner Cruise & Dinner

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Program Directors
The Investment and Risk Management in Shipping program is co-directed by Arlie Sterling, President of Marsoft, and Jean-Pierre Lehman, Professor of International Political Economy at IMD.

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Limited Availability - Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

 

About Marsoft
Marsoft is the world’s leading investment, risk and strategy consulting firm in the maritime industry, providing market analysis, investment and risk management and finance services to the maritime industry.

For more information please download our brochure

 


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