Members would be delighted to note that the ICS has resumed its webinar Leadership Insights Series with their second webinar of 2021, ‘Shipping 2021 – Global impact’, to be held on 27 January, 10:00am UTC, where our Chairman, Mr Bjorn Hojgaard would be one of the speakers.

Details of the webinar are as follows:

Shipping 2021 – Global impact

27 January, 10:00-11:00 UTC

The latest webinar in the Leadership Insights series will explore what 2021 has in store for shipping and what lessons we can learn from 2020 and the unprecedented disruption COVID-19 has brought to our industry and global economies. The Neptune Declaration will be announced, which is being discussed at the upcoming Davos Dialogues during the week of 25 January.

The distinguished panel will discuss:

-        Latest economic forecasts and impact on shipping;

-        What has COVID-19 fundamentally changed and what will remain the same?

-        How vaccine roll out is progressing and the key role shipping is playing in the global deployment;

-        What has shipping learnt from the pandemic – what still needs to be done?

-        The Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew change

Moderator

Guy Platten, Secretary General, ICS

Speakers

Nigel Pain, Head, Short-Term Outlook Unit, OECD

Frederik Kristensen, Deputy CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

Bjorn Hojgaard, CEO, Anglo-Eastern Univan

Rajesh Unni, Founder & CEO, Synergy Group

Members who may be interested in attending can register for the upcoming webinar here: https://bit.ly/3baFybS .