Canada Branch 11th Annual Dry Bulk & Commodities Conference

8:00 am

Registration & Breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome from ICS Canada

Hugo Brent - ICS Canada Chair

9:10 am

Shifting Cargoes: How Changes in the Dry Bulk Trade Flows Are Driving the Market
Luke Ravenscroft - Clarksons Platou

9:30 am

The Dry Bulk Carrier Market: Defying Gravity?
Simon Ward - Ursa Shipbrokers

10:10 am

Coffee Break

10:30 am

Canadian Grain Industry Review and Outlook
Chad Thomson - Parrish & Heimbecker

10:50 am

Western Canadian Grain Movement and the view for the 2025-26 crop year
Mark Hemmes - Quorum Corporation

11:30 am

New Routes, New Rules: How Copper Miners are Navigating Mine to Market Changing Trade Flows
Ashley Woodhouse - Capstone Copper

11:50 am

Presentation Details TBC

12:10 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm

International Sailor Society Canada, presenting the Capt. Oscar G. Pinto Seafarer Welfare Excellence Award

1:40 pm

Port of Vancouver: Enabling trade diversification at Canada's largest port
Capt. Shri Madiwal - VFPA

2:00 pm

Tic Tac Dough: Who are the losers in the port fees being imposed by the US & China?

Shelley Chapelski - Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

2:45 pm

Leveraging Maritime AI to Navigate Complex Risk

Tim Aquino - Windward

3:25 pm

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Decision-Making in Shipping

Alex Ledovas - Signal Ocean

4:00 pm

Round Table Discussion on Developing in the Port

Jeff Crawford - Neptune Terminals; Capt Madiwal - VFPA;

Derek Hynes - National Maritime Group