DNV makes a mark at the prestigious 5th edition of the Indian Shipping Summit Conference and Exhibition held on 21-22 Oct 2009 in Mumbai, co-organised by Seatrade and Tradewinds.
DNV Maritime India sponsored India’s premier networking event for the International Maritime Industry - Indian Shipping Summit (ISS) – held on 21-22 Oct 2009 in Mumbai. The ISS Conference and Exhibition was a good meeting place that involved the who’s who from the Maritime Industry, with a genuine desire to move in the right direction.
According to Helge Kjeøy, Regional Manager, DNV Middle East, South East Asia, “India is a very important provider of maritime services to the global maritime fraternity and the ISS 2009 event certainly helped us to successfully connect with the international maritime community.” He goes on to say that, “Besides this, it facilitates the new era of relationships between the Indian Shipping industry and the rest of the world.”
Think-Do-Tank approach
The sessions on the first day of the ISS conference put the Shipping Industry in a broad perspective with a distinctive focus on India. This session emphasized on the need to create a maritime think-and-do-tank to propagate the significance of shipping industry in the government and other industrial sectors locally and internationally. Furthermore, it also stressed on the need of shipping companies to think big and involve other international companies in their business deals.
“Green Shipping” – The Need of the hour
The second day of the ISS conference focused on the green challenges in the Maritime Industry. This session demanded the need for coordinated efforts of the developed and the developing countries to take stringent measures to minimize the impact of climate change on the planet.
Helge made a presentation on the need to go-green, laying emphasis to what lies in the future for shipping. In a statement from his presentation, Helge says that, “Carbon emissions from shipping amounts to approx 3% of total emissions today. Hence, if no measures are taken, shipping will be responsible for over 20% of total CO2 emissions by 2050 as other sectors are implementing strict reduction measures. A “business as usual scenario” is clearly not an option and shipping needs to take its share of the burden to arrest global warming.” Helge also laid down some profitable cost saving measures that can be adopted to reduce carbon emissions and also pointed out how DNV can be a partner to meet these challenges, keeping the Newbuilding and Ships-In-Operations (SIO) sectors in perspective.
Effective and efficient Networking
With the aim to raise the DNV profile and to communicate the brand promise, Maritime India put up an Exhibit at the ISS event. The DNV stand attracted serious enquiries, giving us an opportunity to share our views and know-how to boost industry growth. “There was indeed a huge turnout at the exhibition and this was a positive spin off for us,” says Mr. Kamal Kumar, Area Manager, DNV India, further adding, “We are happy that we not only received a good turnout at our exhibit in terms of quantity but also quality.”