A very special guest lecture covering topics such as:
Size of the maritime/shipping industry
Size of international trade through shipping [what is transported most, with what vessels, and why shipping helps? ]
Advantages of countries that have developer maritime [how does this translate in business? How do they benefit from having large vessel fleets? etc ]
Advantages of countries that have developer ports [how does this translate in business? How do they benefit from having advanced or many ports? etc ]
Disadvantages of the above (points/topics 2, 3)
Challenges in maritime/shipping industry in terms of operations that can make trade difficult [tariffs, legislation environmental restrictions, etc ]
Advancements in Maritime/Shipping industry and how this will impact global trade [how the maritime/shipping of the future can be in terms of technology, new vessels, new legislation/regulations?]
During the delivery of the speech.
The event took place the 19th of July 2024 at UCL’s Engineering Building, lecture room ENG.1.20 under the ISSU0114. International Business Strategy and Development of Dr. Evangelos Markopoulos
a photocall with attendee students and Prof. Evangelos Markopoulos, third from the right
To avoid any misunderstanding and or mistakes, we were fortunate to have the speech live: