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Shipping event enters unchartered waters

AN annual gathering of world leaders from the shipping industry is to take place in the North East for the first time.

Thirty-five delegates from countries as far afield as Canada and Tasmania will attend the Worldwide Controlling Council of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) when it meets at Ramside Hall, near Durham, on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 19 and 20.

ICS council meetings are traditionally held in London, where the industry body was founded 99 years ago, and rarely ventures outside the capital.

“The institute’s decision to meet here is the strongest indication yet that there is a growing perception globally that we have here in the North-East a vibrant, forward-looking industrial and maritime community,” said Kevin Shakesheff, chairman of Teesside-based shipping agents Casper Shipping Limited and the immediate past president of the ICS world controlling council.

As well as addressing issues affecting the shipping industry globally, the delegates will hear about port facilities in the North-East from ICS member David Robinson, chief executive of Teesport-based PD Ports, together with the chief executives of port operators from Newcastle, Sunderland and Blyth.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .