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Category: Geneva Dry

  • Geneva Dry continues to add leading commodity and shipping speakers

    Geneva Dry continues to add leading commodity and shipping speakers The big names continue to sign up to speak at the third edition of Geneva Dry, scheduled for April 28 and 29, while new sister show, Splash Singapore, has also attracted some famous shipping executives. Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping summit, is set…

  • Geneva Dry Dialogues: Marcura

    Geneva Dry Dialogues: Marcura As marketing ratchets up for next April’s big annual dry bulk summit, Splash sits down with top names attending the event. As artificial intelligence gains ground across shipping, Janani Yagnamurthy believes the real breakthroughs will not come from broad, all-purpose models, but from highly tailored, shipping-specific intelligence. The vice president of…

  • Geneva Dry: Coal’s wildcard role

    Geneva Dry: Coal’s wildcard role Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference, is set to return to the Hotel President Wilson on the shore of Lake Geneva on April 28 and 29 next year with many of dry bulk’s biggest names set to take the stage. As well as tech-focused panels, organisers have created…

  • Shipping and mining powerhouses locked in for iron ore finale at Geneva Dry 2026

    Shipping and mining powerhouses locked in for iron ore finale at Geneva Dry 2026 Panels are beginning to coalesce for next April’s Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference. As in past editions, the two-day event will close with a very high level session on iron ore, the largest shipped dry bulk commodity, with…

  • Shipping’s biggest names set to return to Geneva Dry

    Shipping’s biggest names set to return to Geneva Dry Sign-ups to next year’s Geneva Dry – the world’s premier commodities shipping summit – are pouring in with organisers finalising the session line-ups for dry bulk’s biggest annual gathering. With hundreds of delegates already confirmed for the April 28 – 29 event, the 2026 edition is…

  • Discount hotel rooms go on sale for next year’s Geneva Dry

    Discount hotel rooms go on sale for next year’s Geneva Dry Special priced hotel rooms are now ready for booking for next year’s Geneva Dry, the world’s premier annual commodities shipping summit, scheduled for April 28 and 29. Organisers have secured room discounts at the Hotel President Wilson, the five-star establishment hosting the event. Facing…

  • Geneva Dry 2026 opens for business

    Geneva Dry 2026 opens for business Organisers of Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference, have unveiled today the agenda for the 2026 edition of the summit with marketing officially underway for what is forecast to be a record turnout at the five-star Hotel President Wilson on the shore of Lake Geneva. The annual…

  • Resilience, accountability, agility: the case for small independent dry bulk operators

    Resilience, accountability, agility: the case for small independent dry bulk operators Sagitta Marine managing director Thomas Zaidman argues why smaller shipowners are a necessary force – not a risk – in the market. The recent Geneva Dry conference saw shipowners converge in huge numbers to listen to panels on many matters of interest to the…

  • How iron ore seaborne trading patterns are changing

    How iron ore seaborne trading patterns are changing Some heavy-hitters were on stage for the final session of this year’s Geneva Dry summit, the iron ore panel moderated by Tim Huxley, the CEO of Mandarin Shipping, who kicked proceedings off by asking panellists if there had ever been a more difficult time to form a…

  • How tariffs have already reshaped minor bulk trade flows

    How tariffs have already reshaped minor bulk trade flows Tariffs, increasing stem sizes and changing trade patterns formed much of the debate at the Minor Bulks session at this year’s packed Geneva Dry summit.  Wlillem Vermaat, shipping director at Heidelberg Materials Trading, the second largest cement producer globally, noted that commodity trade flows tend to…

  • Dry bulk’s long path towards decarbonisation

    Dry bulk’s long path towards decarbonisation Low-hanging fruit and the ramifications of what was agreed at last month’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) gathering at the International Maritime Organization formed much of the discussion during the Dry Decarbonisation panel moderated by Lloyd’s Register’s Nikos Kakalis at last week’s Geneva Dry summit.  Massimo Giovannini, managing partner…

  • How rising demand for electric vehicles is changing the face of dry bulk

    How rising demand for electric vehicles is changing the face of dry bulk All week, Splash will be bringing readers reports from Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference, which took place on April 28 and 29 with more than 820 delegates in attendance. Today’s panel in focus features a brand new slot: EVs…

  • Second edition of Geneva Dry opens today

    Second edition of Geneva Dry opens today The second edition of Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference, opens today with a record attendance and delegates keen to hear what’s in store for the global trade outlook in the coming 12 months following a turbulent start to 2025. With 819 registered delegates, organisers had…

  • Geneva Dry Dialogues: HarborLab

    Geneva Dry Dialogues: HarborLab Antonis Malaxianakis, founder and CEO of HarborLab, a port cost management platform, is willing to do what few others in maritime tech dare – going public on return on investment (ROI) numbers, something he’ll also happily share with delegates attending Geneva Dry, due to open on April 28. HarborLab is an…

  • Geneva Dry Dialogues: Seaber

    Geneva Dry Dialogues: Seaber The tech space in dry bulk is crowded, concedes Sebastian Sjöberg, the CEO and co-founder of Seaber, a predictive AI platform providing data-driven decision support for scheduling and chartering optimisation. It’s a point evidenced by the fact that more than a third of the 58 sponsors of this year’s Geneva Dry…

  • One month countdown to Geneva Dry

    One month countdown to Geneva Dry There’s just one month to go until this year’s largest gathering of charterers and shipowners takes place in the Swiss city of Geneva. Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference, is scheduled for April 28 and 29 at the Hotel President Wilson with close to 300 companies already…

  • Geneva Dry Dialogues: Manta Marine Technologies

    Geneva Dry Dialogues: Manta Marine Technologies Ina Reksten, who runs Norwegian vessel optimisation specialist Manta Marine Technologies, acknowledges many of her clients are struggling to meaningfully translate all the data heading their way. “It sounds straight forward, but a good outcome requires not only strong programming skills and setting data parameters, but also understanding of…

  • Specialist workshops added to Geneva Dry

    Specialist workshops added to Geneva Dry Based on feedback from delegates to this year’s event, the organisers of Geneva Dry have added two specialist workshops to next year’s edition of the world’s premier commodities shipping conference. On the morning of April 28, delegates will be able to attend both the Crewing In The Digital Age…

  • Geneva Dry Dialogues: Heidelberg Materials Trading

    Geneva Dry Dialogues: Heidelberg Materials Trading The dry bulk fleet is rapidly ageing and new orders will be vital next year, even if yards are overflowing with contracts for other types of ships. That’s the view of Willem Vermaat, shipping director at cement giant Heidelberg Materials Trading, who will be joining the minor bulks session…

  • Geneva Dry Dialogues: Nova Marine Carriers

    Geneva Dry Dialogues: Nova Marine Carriers Minor bulks are the most exciting segment in dry bulk, according to Vincenzo Romeo, CEO of Nova Marine Carriers, something that is just as well as the Italian is set to take the stage next April in Geneva Dry’s minor bulks session. “There are more origins and destinations in…

  • Geneva Dry Dialogues: Precious Shipping

    Geneva Dry Dialogues: Precious Shipping Making predictions in shipping is akin to chewing glass, Khalid Hashim, managing director of Thailand’s largest dry bulk owner, Precious Shipping. “Only the insane would do that,” he says, stressing: “Predictions in shipping are always wrong.” Nevertheless, when pressed to give his take on where the dry bulk markets will…