The inaugural London International Shipping Week has been widely applauded and declared a resounding success.
Here is a selection of the positive feedback received:
Very simply, it was an outstanding success, creating a buzz well beyond expectations. I am sure this will resonate for some time to come.”
Stephen Hammond, UK Shipping Minister
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A jam-packed five days in the capital to discuss the future of shipping and the importance of London as a maritime centre of excellence.”
Fairplay
We attended several of the events and found all of them to be thoroughly educational.”
William Mathieson, The Superyacht Group
A hugely successful inaugural London International Shipping Week where hundreds of people from around the world gathered, across dozens of official events, to hear why the UK is a natural home for maritime business’ ‘I fully expect London International Shipping Week to become a regular fixture of the industry calendar.”
Kenneth MacLeod, UK Chamber of Shipping
A great opportunity to remind the world’s shipowners and charterers that UK-based maritime businesses offer an unparalleled range of professional support services.”
Jeremy Penn, Baltic Exchange
A star-studded occasion for shipping folk”
Lloyd’s List (speaking about the Government’s LISW reception at Lancaster House)
London International Shipping Week (LISW) reaffirmed that the UK capital is one of world’s leading maritime centres and also showed that its business community certainly knows how to party.”
Tradewinds
As a centre for maritime business services, London still truly lacks a comparable rival.”
Masamichi Morooka, Chairman, International Chamber of Shipping
‘But,’ we all asked, ‘will it work?’ Well, it did – with knobs on. So, a very well done to the LISW organisers who pulled off no mean feat in getting British politicians involved from London Mayor Boris Johnson to Prime Minister David Cameron.”
Spinnaker, Global Shipping Recruitment Specialists
In 30 plus years in the trade association game I have rarely seen such a comprehensive capture of government and the DfT and for the media attention this created. This was a very impressive operation.”
Chris Welsh, Secretary-General, Global Shippers’ Forum
We are extremely thankful for London International Shipping Week, as it provided an opportunity for the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology together with Matchtech to run a high-level roundtable which pulled key industry thinkers to debate the skills-gap in the maritime sector. The opportunity to draw such a high calibre of attendees, from all areas of the sector, has seen the start of a formal whitepaper report developed which will address the skills-shortage and set out some industry action points – a key development in promoting the sector within the UK.”
David Kelly, Imarest
