World Maritime Merchants Forum - Xinde Marine Forum Hong Kong 2026

Registration & Networking

Opening Remark

Sandy Chan

Managing Director

Hong Kong Shipowners Association

Keynote Address

Wang Yongxin

President

China Merchants Energy Shipping Company Limited

Panel Discussion 1: Commodity Trading & Shipping

This session will explore the growing interaction between commodity flows, shipping demand, freight markets, trade finance and global supply chains, and how these forces are reshaping international commodity trade.

Benjamin WONG

Head of Transport

Logistics and Industrials, Invest Hong Kong

Amy Chan, JP

Deputy Secretary for Transport and Logistics

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Andrea Olivi

Global Head

Shipping, Trafigura

Panel Discussion 2: Green Maritime Fuel Hub

Hong Kong is positioning itself as a regional green maritime fuel bunkering and trading centre. This session will examine fuel availability, infrastructure readiness, decarbonisation pathways and practical solutions for shipowners.

Alexander Prokopakis

Executive Director

IBIA

Chester S. M. Lee

Deputy Chief Operating Officer – Commercial, Green Fuels & Chemicals

The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas)

Niraj Nanda

Chief Commercial Officer

Anglo-Eastern

Pino Spadafora

Vice President Marine Market Development

RINA Services S.p.A.

Philip Ho 何啟璇

Senior Surveyor of Ships / Ship Registration Services

Hong Kong Marine Department

Sanjay Relan

ex-Chief Engineer and General Manager, Decarbonisation and Environmental Compliance

Pacific Basin Shipping (HK) Limited

Presentation 1

Presentation 2: Integrated Solution for Full Lifecycle Cost Control and Safety Assurance of Mooring Ropes

Eileen Chen陈伊琳

KA Representative

Zhejiang Four Brothers Rope Co., Ltd.

Tea Break

Panel Discussion 3: Shipping Finance & Investment

As shipping enters a new investment cycle, capital is playing a more important role in fleet renewal, asset allocation, green transition and risk management. This session will examine how shipowners, financiers, leasing companies, investors and asset managers are responding to higher asset values, regulatory change, geopolitical uncertainty and new opportunities across shipping segments.

Josh Chen陳奕豪

General Manager, Seacon Ship Trading Co., Ltd.

Executive Director, Seacon Shipping Group Holdings Limited

Kenneth Lam

Founder & CEO

SeaKapital Limited

Yolanda Shi施渝楠

China P&I Club

Deputy General Manager, Marketing & International Development Department

Presentation 3: Better Together: Arbitration and Mediation

For decades, arbitration dominated cross-border commercial disputes, its near-global enforceability secured by the 1958 New York Convention (170+ states). Mediation—flexible and relationship-preserving—lacked comparable enforcement. Now the 2019 Singapore Convention and 2025’s IOMed are changing that. Is mediation a true rival to arbitration—or can the two complement each other?

Jagmeet Makkar, FICS

Immediate Past Chairman, ICS - Hong Kong Branch

Practicing Maritime Arbitrator & Mediator

Panel Discussion 4: Shipping Market Outlook 2027

This closing market panel will bring together industry experts to discuss the outlook for major shipping markets in 2027. The session will focus on supply-demand fundamentals, newbuilding deliveries, fleet renewal, trade disruptions, geopolitical risks and the changing flow of commodities and energy cargoes.

Woon Aw Yong

Director - Asia

Maritime Strategies International (MSI)

Anurag Mathur

Managing Director, Maritime Solutions

Wallem Group

Mark Yang杨新天

COO, Cetus Maritime

CEO or Olivia Lennox King

Sakura Kuma

Managing Director, MOL (Asia Oceania) Pte. Ltd.

Executive Officer, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.

Closing Remarks

Cocktail Reception