As part of the Maritime and Digitalisation Initiative (ReDi) and the NOL Fellowship, this seminar brings together leading experts from academia, industry, and government to examine the structural forces reshaping global trade. 

Our Distinguished Guest Speakers

Hear from our distinguished guest speakers as they share their perspectives on the critical forces shaping the future of global trade and maritime logistics:

• Technology Transformation– Exploring how digital technologies and innovation are transforming the future of maritime trade and logistics 
• Reshoring – Understanding how regionalised production networks are reshaping global trade and maritime connectivity 
• Oil Price Uncertainties – Examining the impact of volatile energy prices on shipping and trade

Bo Wegener
CEO Asia Pacific
CMA CGM

Victor Sim
Director, Supply Chain and Logistics Resilience
Enterprise Singapore

Dr Chen Xinwei
Deputy Executive Director
Singapore Maritime Institute

Jimmy Suroto Huang
Founder
Nava Analytics & Research Pte Ltd

• Bo Wegener: Navigating Volatility: How Energy and Geopolitics are Reshaping Shipping and Supply Chains

As one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics groups, CMA CGM feels the direct impact of volatile energy prices and shifting global politics on how goods move around the world. This session examines the structural forces reshaping Asia-Pacific trade and what they mean for the maritime industry. From fleet and network decisions, diversifying energy mix across LNG, biofuels and e-fuels, and the growing role of AI and digitalisation in building resilience. It concludes with a carrier’s take on what to do about it.

• Victor Sim: The Evolution of Global Supply Chains in a Changing World

The global landscape is undergoing profound transformation, driven by shifting geopolitical dynamics, rapid technological advancements, and the rise of new economic centres. Businesses are diversifying their import and export networks to enhance resilience, while digital technologies are providing unprecedented situational awareness and enabling real-time orchestration across increasingly complex operations. At the same time, emerging growth markets are reshaping global trade flows and creating new opportunities for investment and collaboration.

These changes are fundamentally redefining supply chains. Modern supply chains are becoming longer in geographical reach but shorter in individual segments, reflecting a more distributed and specialised production ecosystem. They are evolving from linear networks into intricate webs of manufacturing, consolidation, and distribution hubs spanning multiple countries and regions. Beyond the movement of goods, supply chains are increasingly integrating manufacturing, assembly, and product value-add activities closer to key markets.

• Chen Xinwei: To be announced.

• Jimmy Suroto Huang: Decoding the Impact of Disruptions on Container Shipping & Predicting Future Trends: Insights through Predictive Analytics

The presentation aims to show how Predictive Analytics in container shipping can serve not just as valuable business intelligence for strategic decisions (prescriptions), but to also explain and even quantify the impact of disruptions to the industry. This provides crucial foresight for future trends, and the necessary input for enhanced modelling to cater for the very impact of those disruptions themselves.

This evolution has also accelerated the importance of supply chain orchestrators, which leverage digital capabilities and multi-modal expertise to orchestrate end-to-end global supply chains across multiple logistics partners. In this increasingly interconnected environment, trusted and neutral hubs such as Singapore play a pivotal role by providing the reliability, connectivity, regulatory certainty, and ecosystem needed for businesses to manage complexity and build resilient, future-ready supply chains.

Turning Insights into Foresight… 

Following the guest presentations, participants will join facilitated foresight breakout sessions to explore how emerging disruptions could redefine global trade and shipping, and what these shifts may mean for maritime connectivity, supply chain resilience, how diversification is reshaping global trade and maritime connectivity, and the strategic implications for future policy and business decisions. 

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