Splash Singapore launches with ambition to become Asia’s largest shipowner gathering

The organisers of Geneva Dry and the Maritime CEO Forum series today unveil their next big shipping summit.

Splash Singapore (www.splashsingapore.com) is set to make its debut at the Fairmont Hotel on September 24 next year, the day before the city-state’s famous annual dinner held by the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA).

Splash Singapore is a new event building on eight editions of the Maritime CEO Forum Singapore.

With the support of Singapore Maritime Foundation, panels will be packed full of shipowners, shipmanagers and charterers. No presentations, no slides, no selling, just the top people in the industry discussing pressing issues with a bold ambition to make this Asia’s largest shipowner gathering.

Sessions include the opening Big Issues hour, as well as specials on tankers, dry bulk, and the future of fixing. There’s also the brand new SpashTech Digital Leaders Forum and a focus on AI, digitalisation, and the maritime workforce.

Confirmed speakers already include many well known names in global shipping such as Mikael Skov, the CEO of Hafnia, the world’s largest product tanker owner, as well as Arthur English, CEO of Norway’s G2 Ocean, a leading open hatch bulk operator, Stamatis Tsantanis, chairman and CEO of New York-listed capesize giant Seanergy Maritime, John Su, group chairman and CEO of Athens-based Erasmus Shipinvest Group, Tim Huxley, CEO of Hong Kong’s Mandarin Shipping and Torbjørn Gjervik, the CEO of Oslo-headquartered Western Bulk, a dry bulk operator with 150 vessels to its name. Among charterers who will take to the stage next September are Elaine Yu, senior chartering director at miner South32 and Willem Vermaat, shipping director at Heidelberg Materials Trading.

“Singapore has been our home since our parent company was founded 13 years ago. Over the years, we’ve hosted many events there, from shipowner roundtable lunches, rather large drinks parties outside Marina Bay Sands, and our Maritime CEO Forums, the exclusive, by-invite-only gatherings that have welcomed the very cream of the crop in terms of the city’s shipping elite since 2016,” commented Sam Chambers, editorial director at Splash. “As such, come September 24 next year, our behind-closed-doors Maritime CEO Forum is opening up to a wider audience. Priced at just S$750 ($583), you can now get a chance to rub shoulders with the who’s who of shipping.”

The event takes place in the Stamford Ballroom, part of the Raffles City Convention Centre at Fairmont Singapore. Splash Singapore has organised a special room rate for speakers, sponsors and delegates whereby visitors can make the most of a trip to the Southeast Asian republic by attending other events that week including Marine Money Asia and the SSA dinner, where more than 2,600 in maritime gather every year.

“With delegate passes priced at just S$750, we’re putting the quality of the event, and access to it, ahead of any commercial goals,” said Grant Rowles, Splash’s commercial director. “The focus is very clearly on making this an event that will bring the global shipping community to Singapore and allow those in Singapore to access the global shipping community.”

The full Splash Singapore agenda can be accessed here.
Splash Singapore registration, at just S$750, can be accessed here.
Special Splash Singapore hotel room rates can be found here.