LONDON: The 2nd London International Shipping Week (LISW) will start from next week. With more than 100 events planned during the second London International Shipping Week (LISW) there is genuinely something for everyone in shipping, whether it be topical conferences, sea shanties in Westminster Abbey or dragon boating down the Thames
Jeremy Penn, who is chairman of the LISW steering group as well as chief executive of the Baltic Exchange, insists next week is something refreshingly different from the myriad shipping events around the world.
“LISW offers a very different style,” he says, explaining it is an “ecosystem” of events built around the core conference, rather than a rigid tradeshow format in one fixed place or indeed a series of parties with no real content.
“LISW is an opportunity to learn, to do business and to plan for the next decade,” Penn says. It is of course also a chance to remind the world of London’s shipping credentials too.
The city has come in for some stick of late – a survey from Norway’s Menon Business Economics placed London outside the top five shipping hubs in the world this May.
