Doha: Mwani Qatar has announced the key sponsors for the Qatar Maritime and Logistics Summit 2020 which will be held from 18 to 19 February 2020 at the Sheraton Grand Doha Resort and Convention Hotel.
The main sponsors for the summit are Qatar National Bank (QNB) and Milaha, while the QTerminals is the platinum sponsor. Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (Nakilat) is the diamond sponsor while the Qatar Free Zones is the gold sponsor. The Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Company (Muntajat) and Mowasalat (Karwa) are the silver sponsors.
Hosted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and organized jointly between Mwani Qatar as a strategic partner and Lloyd’s List, The Qatar Maritime and Logistics Summit will bring together the senior experts from the global maritime sector and Qatar to discuss industry-wide, long-term challenges and opportunities as well as a number of important topics such as trade, global trends, port development, financing, technology, digital security, cybersecurity, safety, security and sustainability and many other topics related to shipping, port and logistics sectors.
The first summit of its kind in Qatar aims to promote Qatar’s ports and logistics sectors to keep pace with growth and benefit from global experiences in these fields, thus contributing to achieving the Ministry of Transport and Communications’ strategic plan aimed to transform Qatar into a vital commercial and logistical hub in the region.
In its first edition, the Qatar Maritime and Logistics Summit will focus on the challenges that the maritime transport, port and logistics sectors facing between 2020 and 2030. With a focus on transportation, the summit will establish expectations for a logistics sector in transition, and a realignment of maritime with these expectations. The next decade is likely to see a closer alignment of the maritime and logistics sectors.
This alignment will coincide with two trends of global significance that will increasingly shape the decisions we take about investment in the infrastructure needed to keep maritime and logistics businesses active.
These trends are, firstly, a deeper concern for sustainability — most obviously in the need to protect a vulnerable environment — and, second, a keener perception of the impact of next-generation technologies on the world of work, particularly related to transportation.
