Trade Disruptions and its Impacts on Shipping and Port Operations

Course Overview

War, plague and famine are written large in the annals of history, and they are now writing history for the modern age. After 80 years of trade driving economic growth and reducing poverty, the world appears to have changed course. How do disasters geopolitical and natural impact trade and in particular ports. From Covid 19, to piracy and terror on the high seas via Trump’s tariffs the changes in trade flows and port operations will be examined.

Resilience is now critical to a shippers and shipping companies survival. The course will examine case studies including:

• Once in a lifetime” high container freight rates at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic partly caused by container shortages.
• The need to reverse container flows in the Mediterranean due to the diversion of container ships away from the Suez Canal.

Key Benefits

• Know the key trades and how they are changing
• Learn about tariff and the changing rules of trade
• Understand how to forecast how changes in trade will impact you
• Learn how to adapt and benefit from crises
• Understand what the impacts of different crises have been
• Know how to prepare for crises and benefit from them

Who Should Participate

• Port and terminal owners and operators
• Ship owners, managers and agents
• Beneficial cargo owners
• Finance professionals in the port and shipping sector
• Regulators overseeing shipping and ports
• Port authorities

Delivered by David Wignall

David Wignall is a senior port and shipping professional who has planned and financed over US$ 30 billion of port, maritime infrastructure and ships in the last 15 years. He was Senior Vice President of Indonesia’s State Owed Port Company (IPC) for five years and Chairman of a major container terminal for four years. He was also chief engineer of Stena Line for four years.

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Course Requirements

Delegates must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance - Delegates must attend all sessions of the course. Delegates who miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions will not be eligible to sit the course assessment
• Successful completion of the course assessment - Assessments will be ongoing and based on in-class participation and activities