24 – 26 April 2012,
Scandic Continental Hotel, Helsinki
Developed and organized by Informa Maritime Events, this conference is billed as the premier Arctic Shipping industry event focussed on ice and cold climate shipping. Highlights of this year’s Arctic Shipping conference include:
- Focus on logistics, operations and voyage planning along the Northern Sea Route
- Expanded full session on communications
- Four in-depth breakout sessions
- Four champagne roundtable discussions
- Increased networking time and audience feedback sessions
- Two technical streams
- 3 breakfast briefings allowing in-depth presentations and discussion on key topics
- Problem solving panel discussions: Multi-stakeholder panels examine current and future developments in the Arctic
- Lunchtime briefing
With more than thirty leading professionals in the lin-up you should plan on attending this conference if you want to hear about:
- Strategic concerns, security and sovereignty in the Arctic with high-level contributions from Arctic countries
- Developments in transport and exploration in Russian Arctic, North America and Greenland, including real-life case studies from voyages in 2011
- The impact of climate change on potential navigation conditions
- Challenges of ice management operations for offshore vessels
- Technical challenges for design of ice-going ships and icebreakers
- Stakeholder discussion on current status of training for ice-going crew