CBS Maritime Present at This Year´s IAME Conference

Approximately 180 IAME members and invited representatives of the maritime industry attended the conference in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: CBS Maritime

The theme of this year’s IAME conference, organized by the MIT Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain innovation, was “The Role of Maritime Clusters and Innovation in Shaping Future Global Trade”.

CBS Maritime directors, Henrik Sornn-Friese and Carsten Ørts Hansen attended the conference together with program director of the Executive MBA in Shipping & Logistics (the Blue MBA), Irene Rosberg.

- IAME provides a unique opportunity to present CBS´ broad range of well-established maritime research and teaching. It is hardly seen that a business university is able to offer research-based teaching all the way from the bachelor to the MBA level within the area of maritime business and economics, says CBS Maritime co-director, Carsten Ørts Hansen. He continues by saying that:
- The fact that this year’s theme was on the role of maritime clusters, made it even more relevant for us to be there to present our research on this particular subject. It is a topic that has occupied maritime policy-makers for at least two decades and which is now increasingly target of academic research.

Program director, Irene Rosberg of the Executive MBA in Shipping & Logistics agrees that IAME gives great input to the development of executive programs such as the Blue MBA:

- Technical innovation within the shipping industry is of great importance for the sustainability of the industry, however, this needs to be twined with appropriate risk management, financing, and economic evaluation in order to be taken into account. The annual IAME conference is an excellent forum, which contributes significantly in this area and integrates the economy of shipping, port and supply chain. This is of great value for strategic management of the different segments of the maritime industry, says program director Irene Rosberg.

The annual event attracts leading maritime scholars from all over the world – as well as business leaders, government officials and other influential decision-makers from across the maritime industry, who use the opportunity to present their views during plenary sessions.

From KL to Singapore
After the IAME conference Henrik Sornn-Friese and Carsten Ørts Hansen traveled further to Singapore – just an hour’s flight from Kuala Lumpur. At Singapore Management University (SMU) they presented ongoing and new CBS Maritime research under the broad heading “Greening the Maritime Supply Chain” to an audience consisting largely of local companies, public bodies and maritime training academies in addition to colleagues from SMU.

From left: Carsten Ørts Hansen, Irene Rosberg and Henrik Sornn-Friese at the The Kuala Lumpur Tower. Photo: CBS Maritime

About IAME
The International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) was founded in 1991 and has since grown into a recognizable institution with more than 500 academic members and more than a score of corporate members. IAME is closely linked with two Maritime Economics and Logistics and Maritime Policy and Management, two of the leading peer-reviewed journals in the field. CBS Maritime is member of IAME.