World Shipping Forum: China

In response to my recent post on logistics in China, a couple people wrote me mentioning the upcoming World Shipping Summit 2006 in China.  It will take place at the Wuzhou Guest House in Shenzen on November 2nd and 3rd.  The official website for the Summit describes it as follows:

Centered around the topic of "Mangaging China," the Summit will focus on the changing pattern of world trade and shipping, especially the development of BRICs -Brazil, Russia, India and China and their effects on the world shipping industry, and discuss the strategies to manage such changes.  With the development of BRICs, especially China, the shipping market changed dramatically.  How could the continued growth in the BRICs affect the world shipping industry?  How could we understand and manage the changes?  And how could we achieve success in the competitive market?

Conference themes will include:  Change Pattern: Trade & Shipping, Top Views on Managing Change, Ports & Shipping, Financing Shipping, Liner Shipping & Logistics, Bulk Shipping and Ship Management & Seafarer.

The conference will address all of the major shipping market sectors, with an international panel of expert speakers (a veritable international shipping who's who) including:

• Mr. Li Shenglin, Minister, Ministry of Communications of P.R. China
• Mr. Xu Zongheng, Mayor of Shenzhen
• Mr. Zhang Guanqin, President, China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI)
• Mr. Li Kejun, Chairman of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), President of China Classification Society (CCS)
• Mr. Alberto Aleman Zubieta, Administrator, Panama Canal Authority (ACP)
• Mr. Tokinao Hojo, Deputy Chairman, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL)
• Mr. June-suk Choo, President of Busan Port
• Mr. Baron Leo Delwaide, President, Antwerp Port Authority
• Mr. Takao Kusakari, Chairman, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line)
• Mr. Hiroyuki Maekawa, President, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd.(K-Line) 
• Mr. Tommy Thomsen, A.P.Moller - Maersk Group, Chairman of A.P.Moller Terminal
• Mr. Wong-Hsiu,Huang, Chairman of Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp
• Mr. JW Park, President, Hanjin Shipping
• Mr. Sanjay Mehta, Managing Director/CEO, Essar Shipping Ltd. (ESL)
• Mr. Huang Xiaowen, Managing Director, China Shipping Container Lines Company Limited (COSCO)
• Mr. Li Shaode, Chairman and president of China Shipping Group 
• Mr. Zhao Huxiang, President of SINOTRANS Group
• Mr. David O'Rear, Chief Economist at the HK Chamber of Commerce
• Mr. Nicolas Papadakis, Chairman of Intercargo
• Mr. Stephen A. Van Dyck, Chairman, Intertanko 
• Mr. Carsten Melchiors, Secretary General, BIMCO 
• Mr. John Lanigan, Executive Vice President, BNSF 
• Mr. Zheng Jingsheng, President, Yantian Port Corporation 
• Mr. Tom Simmers, President and CEO, Ceres Terminals
• Mr. Doug Marchand, Executive Director, GeorgiaPorts Authority
• Mr. Pieter Struijs, Executive Vice-President and COO, Port of Rotterdam Authority
• Mr. Hans Gerson, CEO, Port of Amsterdam
• Mr. June-Suk Choo, President  of Busan Port 
• Mr. Masatoshi Teresaki, Senior Executive Vice President, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Mr. Timothy J. Farrell, Executive Director of the Port of Tacoma
• Mr. Baron Leo Delwaide, President, Antwerp Port Authority
• Mr. Rajaish Bajpaee,Chairman,Eurasia Group of Companies
• Mr. J.A.A.J.(Jan) Fransen, Managing Director, Green Award Foundation
• Mr Thomas Tay,SMOU (Singapore Maritime Officers' Union )
• Ms. Marene Yu, Managing Director of TNT China Logistics, CFO of ANJI-TNT Automotive
• Mr. Wang Kangping, Vice President of TCL
• Mr. Li Changshun, President of Jinan Iron & Steel Group Corporation
• Mr. Tao Dong, MD, Chief Regional Economist, Credit Suisse
• Mr. Paul Chang, Head of Shipping Asia, HSH Nordbank, Hong Kong
• Mr. Mark Friedman, Managing Director Head of Global Transportation Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch 
• Mr. Gerry Wang, CEO, Seaspan Corporation 
• Mr. Martin Stopford, Managing Director, Clarkson Research
• Mr. Philip Damas, Drewry Shipping Consultants 
• Mr. Anton Harder, Simpson Spence & Young Shanghai Co.,Ltd
• Mr.Arjun Batra,Drewry Shipping Consultants
• Mr. James C. Hankla, Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners

There are even more people who may be coming to speak in addition to the above.  I would love to hear about the Summit from anyone who attends.