Following on from the success of the 2008 European Dry Bulk Shipping Market Outlook, Lloyd’s List are delighted to announce the 2009 conference will be held on February 25 - 26 2009 at the Marriott Hotel, Istanbul.

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The 2nd Annual European Dry Bulk Shipping Market Outlook Conference is the one place to gain competitive insight into the European Shipping markets and meet all the key luminaries of this dramatically shifting market in one place at one time.

Brought to you by Lloyds list, and complemented by the Dry Bulk Shipping Market Outlook conference, running for 6 years in London, this is the event that will provide strong strategic insight into the European commodities markets and the economic outlook moving forward.

The past few short months have delivered an intense softening of dry bulk freight rates heightened by the many new ships entering the market. Additionally recent issues in the global credit markets are delivering systemic breakdowns in letters of credit freezing shipping around the globe.

This has created a volatile market where all industry participants must now ensure they are fully informed of the most up to date commodities data as well as new shipbuilding activity, fleet projections, freight rate movements and finance / credit issues.

This conference will address all of the above issues as well as comprehensively cover on of the most rapidly developing markets in the world today – The Freight Derivatives Market, which enables market participants to minimize future risk exposure in such a volatile market.

• Understand driving forces for the current shipping market & how they influence freight rates
• Learn from the worlds best freight analysts on how high freight rates will go
• Outlook for seaborne dry bulk trade
• When will the shipping rate boom end
• Fleet outlook - new ships
• The freight derivatives market
• Operational issues affecting the dry bulk shipping industry

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