The Global Maritime Forum gives an insight in major issues that seem to affect the shipping industry on a global scale. It is based on research between senior maritime stakeholders from more than 50 countries, and their perceptions on the impact, likelihood, and preparedness on a number of issues potentially affecting the global maritime industry.
The issues discussed in the report vary from digitalization, automation, economic crisis, to decarbonisation.
The forum, in addition to the above, reports that these matters will affect the maritime industry in the ten years following.
The report results to the fact that the maritime industry is unprepared when it comes to the issues surveyed.
Moreover, the matter that the respondents of the survey felt most unprepared with were the issues that are considered to be the most impactful and have the most possibilities to occur.
According to the report, the key issue that are on the spot are cyber attacks and data thefts.
Concluding, other matters the Forum focused on are the global economic crisis, energy price fluctuations and the changing trading patterns.
