Workshop: Governance Challenges for a Sustainable Maritime Supply Chain
Properly addressing environmental and climate change in the global maritime supply chain is a pertinent challenge that requires effective governance, aiming for unification and shared vision. An international research partnership aspires to raise awareness and understanding of environmental management challenges and best practices for shippers, shipowners, ports, providers of marine technology and local communities.
The workshop focuses on five interrelated governance themes, along different nodes in the global maritime supply chain, relevant for tackling sustainability challenges in the maritime supply chain.
The workshop takes place over two days, combining industry views with academic research activities.
Day 1 will be a conference presenting views from the industry, with speakers from various positions within the global maritime supply chain, researchers, and representatives from different industry associations.
Day 2 will be a workshop, where the research project partners meet to pick up on the topics from day 1 and present ongoing research. We will discuss ways to bring the partnership forward, including major topics to address and how the partnership works.
Focus on five themes within governance
- Trade and Logistics Governance addresses the challenges and opportunities for the global alignment of trade infrastructure and intermodal transport capacities.
- Green Port Governance addresses the drivers, challenges and advantages of adopting sustainable shipping requirements and environmental management in ports.
- Corporate Governance addresses how shipping companies can innovate their management models to address sustainability issues, and assesses the implications of the diffusion of these models along the maritime supply chain.
- Stakeholder Governance addresses how shipping companies can identify and engage with their public and private stakeholders with an aim to maintaining their social license to operate and grow.
- Value Chain Governance addresses how some firms push corporate responsibilities along their value chain through the exercise of power and control, and assesses the role of private governance in public policy.
Confirmed speakers include
- Richard Clayton (IHS Maritime and Trade)
- Elizabeth R. DeSombre (Wellesley College)
- Thomas Eefsen (Odense Maritime Technology)
- Valdemar Ehlers (Danish Maritime)
- Angie Farrag-Thibault (BSR Transport and Logistics)
- Bjarne Løf Henriksen (Danish Ports)
- Paul Holthus (World Ocean Council)
- Olaf Merk (ITF/OECD)
- Lars Robert Pedersen (BIMCO)
- Mads Stensen (Maersk Line)
- Jesper Stubkjaer (Danish Shipowners’ Association)
Date & venue
29 August 2016, 9.00 – 17.00 at Råvarebygningen, Porcelænshaven 22, 2000 Frederiksberg.
30 August 2016, 9.00 – 16.00 at Kilen, Kilevej 14a, room K143, 2000 Frederiksberg.
About the partnership
CBS Maritime together with the Centre for Transportation Studies at UBC Sauder School of Business manages an international maritime research project with the aim to explore governance challenges and opportunities in relation to a sustainable maritime supply chain. There is a major gap when it comes to understanding the implications of the recent accelerating "green shipping" trend, which calls for greater environmental accountability and reduction of the air, land and water impacts of the sector along the maritime supply chain. The project addresses this gap with the goal to advance research and understanding towards the progressive governance of sustainable global maritime transport. For more information about the partnership, please visit the CBS Maritime webpage.