Introducing CMA Shipping 2011 - FORWARD
News Release
Connecticut Maritime Association
January 24, 2011
Dear Colleague:
The Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) is pleased to present a powerful program: http://www.shipping2011.com/confer2011.html crafted to deal with the numerous realities of today's markets. We recognize that even as we fight our way through difficult commercial markets we also acknowledge that there continue to be operational challenges, legal and regulatory and international challenges which demand our keen attention.
The program for Shipping 2011 was fashioned during one of the most turbulent moments in our business. We are fortunate that our membership includes so many thoughtful and successful industry participants, who keeping their eyes on the markets can also advise the program committee on the many other moving parts that make this business so interesting and challenging. With thanks to all, we are proud to present Shipping 2011, FORWARD.
Our logo type face taken from the “new world” of social media is intended to reflect the future challenges the industry faces. While labels categorizing those challenges, people, supply and demand balances, environmental regulation, are familiar, the business has passed through a moment of inflection where our world has seriously changed. Ships are hugely more expensive, China has made the world a one country economy, the costs of regulation, both operationally and consequentially are enormous, and our relationship with our people has been altered as the ‘financialization’, a term a former CMA President made popular, of the industry evolves.
It is no longer the industry of our parents.
The pioneers of the web world have created a new framework for the conduct of business and global interaction, and now it is for us to imagine and create our own new world, and to confront the old challenges in new ways.
So we take time this year to look at our markets, the world economy. We try to remember that while 2010 was the ‘Year of the Seafarer’ that responsibility is perpetual. We look forward at some pretty exciting new areas of technical and commercial development which we expect will be real areas of growth, deals and jobs.
And we do this all with enthusiasm, confidence and energy, convinced that just because some of us can’t recognize what all the letters in our title actually represent, doesn’t mean we are not deeply passionate about our industry’s future! So please join our more than 2,300 guests, bring plenty of business cards and your best ideas for the future, because Shipping 2011 is where we want to do everything to make the future real now.
We take delivering a useful, commercially valuable and busy three days for you very seriously. If there is any aspect of the event we can elaborate on for you please do not hesitate to contact us. We want your stay to deliver meaningful value.
Along with our sponsors, exhibitors and speakers we look forward to welcoming you to CMA Shipping 2011 in March.
Again please visit http://www.shipping2011.com to view more and to register.
Sincerely,
CMA Shipping 2011
Tel: +1.203.406.0109 Ext 3717
Email: conferences@cmaconnect.com
Website: http://www.shipping2011.com
The Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) is pleased to present a powerful program: http://www.shipping2011.com/confer2011.html crafted to deal with the numerous realities of today's markets. We recognize that even as we fight our way through difficult commercial markets we also acknowledge that there continue to be operational challenges, legal and regulatory and international challenges which demand our keen attention.
The program for Shipping 2011 was fashioned during one of the most turbulent moments in our business. We are fortunate that our membership includes so many thoughtful and successful industry participants, who keeping their eyes on the markets can also advise the program committee on the many other moving parts that make this business so interesting and challenging. With thanks to all, we are proud to present Shipping 2011, FORWARD.
Our logo type face taken from the “new world” of social media is intended to reflect the future challenges the industry faces. While labels categorizing those challenges, people, supply and demand balances, environmental regulation, are familiar, the business has passed through a moment of inflection where our world has seriously changed. Ships are hugely more expensive, China has made the world a one country economy, the costs of regulation, both operationally and consequentially are enormous, and our relationship with our people has been altered as the ‘financialization’, a term a former CMA President made popular, of the industry evolves.
It is no longer the industry of our parents.
The pioneers of the web world have created a new framework for the conduct of business and global interaction, and now it is for us to imagine and create our own new world, and to confront the old challenges in new ways.
So we take time this year to look at our markets, the world economy. We try to remember that while 2010 was the ‘Year of the Seafarer’ that responsibility is perpetual. We look forward at some pretty exciting new areas of technical and commercial development which we expect will be real areas of growth, deals and jobs.
And we do this all with enthusiasm, confidence and energy, convinced that just because some of us can’t recognize what all the letters in our title actually represent, doesn’t mean we are not deeply passionate about our industry’s future! So please join our more than 2,300 guests, bring plenty of business cards and your best ideas for the future, because Shipping 2011 is where we want to do everything to make the future real now.
We take delivering a useful, commercially valuable and busy three days for you very seriously. If there is any aspect of the event we can elaborate on for you please do not hesitate to contact us. We want your stay to deliver meaningful value.
Along with our sponsors, exhibitors and speakers we look forward to welcoming you to CMA Shipping 2011 in March.
Again please visit http://www.shipping2011.com to view more and to register.
Sincerely,
CMA Shipping 2011
Tel: +1.203.406.0109 Ext 3717
Email: conferences@cmaconnect.com
Website: http://www.shipping2011.com