Shipping Finance Service Summit 2009, one of the biggest and most influential event at Asia-Pacific area and one specialist conference for lifting, handling, discussing the heat issues of shipping finance industry, took place on Nov 30th to Dec 1st, 2009 at Hyatt on the Bund in Shanghai, China

SHANGHAI, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The "Shipping Finance Service Summit 2009," jointly hosted by the Shanghai Hongkou District Government, Shanghai International Shipping Institute, Shanghai Finance Journal and Global Leaders Institute, convened on 30th Nov to 1st Dec 2009 at Shanghai Hyatt on the Bund with the theme of "Keeping Pace with International Finance Service Patterns & Accelerating the Development of the Chinese Shipping Finance Market," and involving almost 30 brilliant speakers from the Chinese government, marine organizations and shipping & financial corporations from all over the world as well as more than 200 dynamic and high-level attendees from hundreds of different correlative enterprises.

Mr. Jeremy Penn, Chief Executive of The Baltic Exchange, joined this summit and addressed an insightful speech. Mr. Penn gave a detailed introduction to The Baltic Exchange and their services for Chinese and global colleagues, including Freight market information, Shipbroking standards, Networking, Education and Publications. He shared his advanced experience with all the participants and stated his own opinion about the industry's future.

The "Shipping Finance Service Summit 2009" attracted a lot of ship owners, bankers, investors, insurance suppliers, ship brokers, and other marine service suppliers, like Maersk, Hanjin Shipping, China Shipping Tanker Company, Cosco, MOL, APL, Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, Arya Shipping, Gold Container, Coal & Oil, Seanerey Maritime, Natixis, DVB Bank, HSBC, SMBC, HSH Nord Bank, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of Communications, CMB Leasing, ICBC, Korea Marine Fund, NIBC Bank, Oppenheimer, Tiger Group, Uni-Asia Finance, V.Ships, RS Platou, Fearnleys, FreeSeas, JSM, Willis, PICC and Rodskog.

As for developing the Chinese shipping finance services market, the Chinese government gave the green light to speed up the process of constructing Shanghai as a major international financial and shipping centre by 2020, which indicates that Shanghai will open up more financial sectors and improve various services for the shipping finance industry.

Several Chinese government officers also addressed speeches at the conference to expound the assistant services from the related government departments to show their attention to the Shipping Financial Center Construction, like Mr. Ling Tao, Director of Finance Stabilization Department and Research Center from The People's Bank of China Shanghai Branch; Mr. Shen Liqiang, President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Shanghai Branch, Mr. Ying Mingyong, Deputy District Chief of Shanghai Hongkou District Government; Mr. Xu Quan, Deputy Director of Finance Office of Shanghai Government; Mr. Tan Weixian, Deputy Director of China Banking Regulatory Commission Shanghai Branch; Mr. Li Feng, Assistant of Director-General of China Insurance Regulatory Commission Shanghai Branch; and Mr. Xiao Lin, Deputy Director of Shanghai Reform and Development Commission.

The "Shipping Finance Service Summit 2009" successfully created a splendid platform for solving finance problems, discussing the industry reformation and planning the future blueprint. It is a wonderful event for industry seekers with foresight and sagacity.

    For more information, please contact:

     Jerry Lu
     Tel:   +86-21-5236-0030
     Email: jerry.lu@globaleaders.com

SOURCE Global Leaders Institute

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