New York Helmsley Hotel News

Building strategies for survival in today’s economic and shipping markets is this year’s focus of the 15th annual Hellenic-American and Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce annual conference, often called the New York Shipping Conference. The event will be held on Tuesday, February 10th at the New York Helmsley Hotel starting at 0815 with conference registration and coffee.  The conference will conclude at 1700 with a networking cocktail reception. For information on registering, contact either Chamber (NACC +212 885 9737 or HACC +212 629 6380) or [email protected]

New York Shipping Conference Asks: “How Will Shipping Survive the Perfect Storm?” Building strategies for survival in today’s economic and shipping markets is this year’s focus of the 15th annual Hellenic-American and Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce annual conference, often called the New York Shipping Conference.  The event will be held on Tuesday, February 10th at the New York Helmsley Hotel starting at 0815 with conference registration and coffee.  The conference will conclude at 1700 with a networking cocktail reception. For information on registering, contact either Chamber (NACC +212 885 9737 or HACC +212 629 6380) or [email protected].

In recent weeks, we have examined various aspects of Chinese shipping developments and we make no apology for reporting a recent New York conference at which China was again the key focus. The country is, after all, the principal factor that is fueling the dry and liquid bulk markets and the container trades. Only a few tanker owners can remember super-profits on today’s scale and bulk carrier owners have only ever dreamt of the rates prevailing today. Shipbuilding capacity in China, meanwhile, is expanding at an exponential rate and, in the long term, it is the shipbuilders’ strategy to be building half of the world’s ships by 2050. They could be doing that long before then, some already believe.

Globalization of shipping will be the theme of the 11th annual Hellenic-American and Norwegian-American annual conference. Entitled “Shipping without Borders: Has National Identity Become Irrelevant?”, the conference will be held on Thursday, February 10th at the New York Helmsley Hotel starting at 0815 with conference registration.. The conference will explore developments and shifts in the international maritime community, and how they relate to doing business in America. Comparative Greek and Norwegian perspectives on identity…