The 16th international conference Grain & Maritime Days 2017 starts working in a month. In the current year, the conference will have rather unusual format.
On the first day of the event, May 25, the conference takes place in the territory of Risoil Terminal in Chornomorsk, Commercial Sea Port of Chornomorsk. The territory of the terminal will include development areas of comfortable conference-hall, dining area and lounge. In order to ease comfort and convenience, on May 25 the organizers will provide transfer service to participants and speakers from Atlantic Garden Resort Hotel in Odessa to Chornomorsk and back again. On May 26, the conference venue is Atlantic Garden Resort Hotel, Odessa, 24a Genuezskaya street.
The organizers developed a new updated format to attract the maximum attention of the authorities to problems and environment of the Ukrainian agrarian sector, its export infrastructure, grain and oilseed market segments, etc.
Key topics:
- Development of agribusiness in the current environment of Ukraine
- Global grain market: demand & supply, development forecast in 2017/18 MY
- Development trends of the Ukrainian grain market: production, exports, logistics
- Phytosanitary control in Ukraine vs market expansion for Ukrainian agricultural products
- Maritime transportation of grain cargoes
Key speakers:
Zsolt Vincze, Deputy Vice-President of the leading US investment company R.J. O'Brien (USA)
Alex Younevitch, Managing Editor for EMEA freight markets at S&P Global Platts (UK)
Vladimir Kalashlinskiy, expert in logistics and trade at FAO Investment Centre
Hesham Soliman, President, Mediterranean Star for Trading Company (Egypt)
Oleg Ustenko, Executive Director at The Bleyzer Foundation
Oleg Nivievskyi, Agricultural policy adviser, World Bank Group
Ivan Miroshnychenko, Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Member of the Parliamentary Committee on agrarian policy and land relations
Oleg Fotchenko, Director at JV RISOIL TERMINAL Ltd.
To date, more than 250 representatives of the grain and maritime companies from 18 countries have already confirmed their further participation in the conference.
Here You can become acquainted with the detailed program and list of participants.
Please, note that since May 1 the cost of participation in the conference increases to 600 USD.
