The Associations of Shipbuilding Industry in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which would best represent Chinese shipbuilding level and market conditions, are now joining hands to hold the Second China Shipbuilding and International Shiptrading Summit on 28 October in Pudong New Area. In last December, the first summit has ended in great success with the support of these associations and all the participants.  Eshiptrading.com, as the full-authorized organizer for the summit, will invite well-known industrial leaders, relevant government officials, shiptrading senior experts, overseas shipowners, and outstanding enterprise and institutions decision-makers for interactive acquaintances and exchanges.

Background

Currently, global shipbuilding industry is confronted with numerous difficulties: continuing global shipping downturn, declining new orders, rising delivery delay, growing intensified competition, increasing difficult financing, soaring shipbuilding cost, sluggish economic environment, etc. All these severely hinder the paces for ship-related companies’ development.

Therefore, the summit would focus on international ship trading and global shipbuilding and is expected to find out the ways out for shipyards and shipowners by sharing new ideas to the experience.

Theme and Speakers

The summit aims to address the current difficulties and explore development strategies for ship-related enterprise. The organizing committee will invite leading experts in the relevant national ministries and the Maritime Safety Administrations to make in-depth analysis on Chinese shipbuilding industry from different perspectives. In addition, the committee will convene some senior representatives from famous shipbuilders both home and abroad to make speeches about their success cases.

In a word, the summit, the summit will bring together ship industry elite to exchange experiences of growth and development. This summit would definitely be an feast for shipbuilding field and worth your attendance.

Organizer

The success of the first summit has been consistently acknowledged by insiders. The Associations for Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu shipbuilding industry are now confident in holding the second China shipbuilding and international shiptrading summit with the support from shipbuilding industry associations of Guangdong, Shandong and Liaoning, Shanghai Pudong Shipping Service, CCS and other institutions. The intensive efforts from Eshiptrading.com would also offer a guarantee for the summit.

The shipbuilding industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai best represent Chinese shipbuilding features and development and could be regarded as the miniature for the national shipbuilding.  They lead the main trend of Chinese shipbuilding and ship trading market. The alliance of the three associations fully demonstrates the importance they attached on current conditions and future development. The summit is expected to become the brand conference in field to specialize in shipbuilding and international ship trading.

Participants

The participants of the summit would mainly consist of elite group from following fields:

l   Domestic coastal shipyards and key ship parts providers (40%);

l   Classification societies, ship inspection organizations, design & research institutions (20%);

l   Well-known shipbrokers and ship trading service organizations (20%);

l   Ship financing institutions, industry associations, colleges and universities (20%).

Moreover, the organizing committee specially invited dozens of distinguished guests at home and abroad, respectively from classification societies, Maritime Safety Administrations, ship research institutions, shipbuilding industry associations and famous giant shipyards both at home and abroad.

Time & Location

The summit will be held on October 28, 2011 (Mon) in Shanghai Pudong New Area.

The organizing committee selects the time near the end of the year for the shipping enterprises to make summary for the past year and draw up new plans and predictions for the future. The summit could also be regarded as the perfect closure for all kinds of industrial conferences of the year.

In addition, "2011 Shanghai Maritime Exhibition" which will be held the day after our summit would also attract many ship-related enterprises, the close dates would greatly facilitate the participant by enabling them to absorb more information and resources in limited time.

Review of the 1st Summit

"The 1^st China Shipbuilding and International Shiptrading Summit" attracted widespread concern since the very beginning. Statistics show that totally 246 participants attending the summit, of which 54% from domestic and foreign shipyards, 14% from ship trading institutions, 8% from government departments, 10% from foreign shipowners, and 14% from financial institutions and other enterprises. Most of the overseas participants are from Europe and Southeast Asia while most domestic guests came from coastal areas. The last summit was truly a dialogue among the corporate executives for 82% of decision-makers from the participating companies attended the conferences by themselves.

The summit carried out in-depth discussion and analysis about the interactive effects between shipbuilding and international ship marketing, the non-order shipbuilding mode for private shipyards, ship financing leasing method, legal issues for order cancellation and other hot topic at that time. Many outstanding guest shared their experiences and opinions with the participants, such as the standing vice director of China Shipping Market Research Center Mr. Zhang Xinlong, vice President of Takenaka Partners LCC (USA) Kim John Taiyo, etc.

In addition, the novel exchange sessions and interactive luncheon impressed the participants with more personal involvement. In the end, the rich business investigation afforded the guests close survey in Yangshan deep-water port. 

Organizer Details

Organizers:  Shanghai Association of Shipbuilding Industry

            Zhejiang Association of Shipbuilding Industry

            Jiangsu Association of Shipbuilding Industry

Sponsor:  www.eshiptrading.com

Supporters: Shanghai Pudong New Area Shipping Services 

Shanghai Shipping Exchange 

CCS Shanghai Branch 

Guangdong Association of Shipbuilding Industry  

Liaoning Association of Shipbuilding Industry 

Jiangxi Association of Shipbuilding Industry 

Hubei Association of Shipbuilding Industry 

Shandong Association of Shipbuilding Industry 

Fujian Association of Shipbuilding Industry

Hot Topics

l   Opportunities and challenges for shipbuilding industry brought by international economy and shipping trends

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l   Cost control & efficiency upgrade for shipyards

l   Market analysis on Chinese ship equipments and products development

l   Practice of merchant ship development

l   Market analysis on ocean oil & gas exploration and supporting equipments

l   Methods for ship enterprises to solve financing difficulties in tightening monetary conditions

l   Development and innovation of Chinese ship trading market

l   Introduction of foreign ship trading market and analysis on Chinese shipbuilding industry

l   Analysis and predictions for global newbuilding market

l   Chinese shipbroker's development & Chinese shipbuilding industry

l   Introduction for Chinese ship parts and brand enterprises

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