Category Archives: Connecticut Maritime Association

Thad Allen bequeaths a new tradition

By Rajesh Joshi | Published: March 25, 2010
Admiral Thad Allen, the commandant of the US Coast Guard, was made available to the media on the last morning of this year’s CMA conference, ostensibly to talk about the success of the Long Range Identification and Tracking System and provide an update on the Haiti response. However, this was to be one of Admiral Allen’s [...]
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Doing time for environmental crime – the DoJ way

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann | Published: March 24, 2010
The ‘land of the free’ is too tough on seafarers caught up in Department of Justice probes. Richard Udell hasn’t shown his face at many shipping conferences the US for a while and probably won’t resurface in a hurry, after the reaction he provoked at the Connecticut Maritime Association Shipping 2010 conference yesterday. The Department of Justice [...]
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Richard Branson, we need you

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann | Published: March 23, 2010
For those of you who have clicked here looking for the Philippe Louis-Drayfus story, please keep scrolling down. Meanwhile…. Shipping needs a Richard Branson figure. That thought struck me as I pondered why politicians pay such scant attention to the industry.  Many of the high-profile shipping names on the delegate’s list here are powerful, influential and [...]
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Adversity, thy name is opportunity

By Rajesh Joshi | Published: March 23, 2010
Criminalisation of seafarers is another subject that has recurred in past CMA conferences. At this year’s event, it came to life thanks to two presenters. Nicholas Pappadakis of Intercargo brought up an example that has seldom been discussed in a public forum: the different worlds that airline crews and mariners inhabit. Airline crews walk in and out [...]
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Is this the new normality?

By Rajesh Joshi | Published: March 23, 2010
LIKE a prodigal son, an old chestnut returned to the spotlight at the opening session of this year’s Connecticut Maritime Association conference in Stamford. An unconventional ensemble of opening-day speakers gave voice once again to shipping’s lack of an “image” and the industry’s utter inability to influence politics and policy. Capt Robert Johnston, vice-chairman of Intertanko, talked [...]
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Interview with CMA Commodore

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann | Published: March 21, 2010
Lloyd’s List’s Monday issue, to be distributed at CMA profiles France’s Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, the CMA Commodore, who accepts his award on Wednesday night. He spoke about his passion for shipping, but also on media speculation that the Louis Dreyfus group is one of the outside investors looking to inject fresh capital in CMA CGM. Read [...]
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Live from CMA 2010!

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann | Published: March 17, 2010
If it’s the views of global industry heavyweights you’re after, the CMA manages to snare its fair share, persuading some legendary names to stop by at the conference venue at the Hilton Hotel at Stamford over the years. Many are speakers, some are delegates lurking quietly in private rooms doing deals, and others are simply honoured [...]
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West’s gloom at odds with Asian dry bulk optimists

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann | Published: April 6, 2009
MAJOR dry bulk shipowners and operators are divided over whether there will be any sustainable recovery in chartering rates in 2009. MAJOR dry bulk shipowners and operators are divided over whether there will be any sustainable recovery in chartering rates in 2009. Those based in the US and Europe are at odds with their more optimistic Asian-based [...]
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Boxship slump will get worse, CMA delegates tell Lloyd’s List

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann | Published: March 30, 2009
MORE than 75% of shipping executives polled by Lloyd’s List during the Connecticut Maritime Association conference agreed that conditions in the global containership sector had yet to hit bottom. The survey respondents included US and European shipowners, operators, regulators, lawyers, fund managers and bankers, and revealed an overwhelmingly negative outlook for the shipping sector. The Lloyd’s List industry survey [...]
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Cosco chief Wei puts date on dry bulk recovery

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann | Published: March 27, 2009
THE head of Chinese shipping giant Cosco Group says the dry bulk market will recover by the second half of 2009, but remains less confident about containership prospects, partly because of the US protectionist trade stance. Cosco president and chief executive Wei Jiafu has urged the US to resume buying Chinese goods again to revive global [...]
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