What a difference a year makes! Compared to our previous conference, most markets have taken off with unprecedented ferocity.<\/p>\n
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But is this going to be one more shipping boom and bust cycle or are we about to witness different dynamics? Can Euphoria be for Real this time? Could the environmental considerations and uncertainties prevailing be a blessing in disguise and keep the order book in check? How will the newly advocated requirements of the environmental regulations influence banks and private equity funds? \u00a0And how about the cost of transporting even the most basic of commodities and goods? \u00a0How can we make trade sustainable and make it a win-win equation for producers, shippers and consumers?<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, there is no doubt that all shipping industry stakeholders seek is sustainability in trade, in the environment, in society. But sustainability also means\u00a0not trying to take advantage of shipping by imposing over regulation in a multitude of facets. \u2022 Global recovery at a peak particularly in countries with an advanced vaccination program, These are some of the key issues that we aim to bring to the fore through our well-tested and most successful phygital conference interaction.<\/p>\n Our previous conference\u2019s theme was a call to Beat On and indeed we were right on target in calling the beat. \u00a0Now the goal is to make this beat prolonged and euphoric.We invite you therefore to join us in trying to spread this Euphoria and see what it will take to Make it for Real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Euphoria in the Shipping World! Is it for Real? Despina Travlou and Angelos Roupas Pantaleon, October 2021 What a difference a year makes! Compared to our previous conference, most markets have taken off with unprecedented ferocity. But is this going to be one more shipping boom and bust cycle or are we about to witness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shippingfinance2022"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe invite you to become a part of the growing community of Slide2Open Shipping Finance participants and sponsors who jointly try and decipher many of these important themes. \u00a0With over 10,000 unique participants in 2021 and an average of 1000 live participants in each of our sessions, we cannot but feel energized towards organizing this year\u2019s conference. And we promise to once again think out of the box.\u00a0After all, during these past two years so much has been about re-inventing, even the best of practices, and the Slide2Open Shipping Finance Conference, now in its 5th year<\/strong>, will for sure not be an exception. Particularly, not against a global backdrop that is fast evolving in so many different ways:<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Possible tightening of looser monetary policies experienced during the pandemic from fear of possible inflation pressures,
\n\u2022 Decentralized Finance (known as DeFi) – this newly evolving form of blockchain finance – that could potentially pose a serious challenge to brokerages, banks and central authorities and create new and much less regulated outlets for ship financing,
\n\u2022 Shifting trade patterns, with China fast becoming a high consumption economy and, as is commonly referred to, \u201cMade in China\u201d being replaced by \u201cMade for China\u201d.
\n\u2022 With Artificial Intelligence (AI) fast seeping into our society, should this not start being a major focus for the shipping industry, before other sectors of the economy absorb what is already a shortage of AI talent? \u00a0How can this talent start adding value to the shipping industry already?<\/p>\n