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Global Maritime Annual Conference 2013 November 2013

Global Maritime Annual Conference 2013
Ocean Resources, Maritime Transportation and Insurance Conference
 November 2013

Gujarat National Law University, Gujarat (www.gnlu.ac.in), a premier national law university in India, is organizing the Global Maritime Annual Conference with special themes on Ocean Resources, Maritime Transportation and Insurance on November 2013 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India (www.gnlugmac.com).

Relevance of the conference themes:

Exploration and exploitation of ocean resources, maritime transportation and marine insurances are three key challenges before the maritime nations and industry worldwide. Ranging from marine life to manganese nodules deep in the oceans have required never before such critical attention of the policy-makers. Managing the exploration and operations in the oceans in a sustainable symbiotic manner can only guarantee a long-term solution to the broader needs of the industry and economy of developed and developing nations. However, the research and development, the technological know-how, far-sighted visionary policies ensuring this objective demands a concerted and coordinated thinking and policy formulation at local as well global level. Developed Maritime Nations of Europe, US, Japan, Australia and New Zealand and their R&D institutions, global industrial conglomerates have made significant progress. While the developing maritime nations of the remaining part of the Globe and their industrial houses are far more behind, least to say, fully aware of the enormous economic and ecological importance of twinning a sustainable policy and practice in the exploration of ocean resources and management of maritime transportation. To address these interlinked issues and concerns, GNLU is organizing a two day global event with special themes on Ocean Resources and Maritime Transportation and Insurance with special focus on IOR-ARC.

Global ocean resources companies and R&D institutions, maritime transport industry, shipping houses and insurance companies, financers of port developments, infrastructure and logistics companies, government and port authorities and executives and operational managers, lawyers, capacity-building institutions, international organisations will tremendously benefit from the interactions and brainstorming sessions with global partners and experts. 

Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Senior Officials from the Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Shipping and Indian Navy will be among the resource persons and have expressed keen interests and underlined the importance of organizing the Conference. 

GNLU Maritime Security and Anti-Piracy Conference 2011 (GMSAC 2011) witnessed presence of participants and resource persons from 35 countries and organisations including NATO, EU and the UN.

GNLU most kindly invites nomination of 1-2 participants to the conference. The conference coincides with the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2013 (vibrantgujarat.com), which attracts corporate houses, business leaders, ambassadors and diplomats, researchers, firms, institutions from many nations of the world. Thus, they will have excellent additional opportunities to learn about the latest policy, scientific, research and development, financial and global trends in these fields.

Registration Fee:

Participation from IOR-ARC countries:
USD 150 and OECD countries: USD 200 USD. The Conference Secretariat may consider waiving registration fee and provide boarding and lodging, depending upon the needs of the participants from the IOR-ARC countries. A limited travel subsidy may be made available, depending upon the mobilisation of funding resources. Kindy mention whether your participation is solely dependent upon full/partial travel subsidy.

Contact Person:

Ms Asha Verma
averma@gnlu.ac.in
gnlugmac@gnlu.ac.in
+812 865 7563  

Ms Asha Verma  will be pleased to provide further information regarding the conference and the logistics arrangements.

Information Brochure and other information can be accessed on www.gnlu.ac.in.

Nomination Form