Setting sails in turbulent times

Malta, Malta

13 June 2024 - 15 June 2024

Setting sails in turbulent times


Thursday 13 June 2024

11:00 Registration desk opens
12:00 » 13:30 Welcome lunch
13:30 » 14:00 Welcome address by the AIJA Bureau representative and the Organising Committee
14:00 » 15:30 The “unpredictable” law: new rules on the supply chain in European countries and beyond
The Session will deal with the impact of new legal constraints on supply chains recently adopted in the "Euro Zone" and beyond
15:30 » 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 » 17:30 “The rise of cyber risk and AI”: digital services, digitising transport and growing cyber security threats
The Session will deal with the growing digitalisation of the transport industry and the connected cyber security risks
20:00 Dinner
Further details will soon be shared

Friday 14 June 2024

08:30 Registration desk opens
09:30 » 11:00 The urgency of (sustainable) money - Financing trade, transport and business models
The Session will analyse financing of the transport industry and its most recent developments
11:00 » 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 » 13:00 Setting sales and sails in turbulent times - accommodating unpredictable events in supply and transportation contracts
The Session will address the growing and wider impact of unpredictable events on supply and transport contracts and business, the use of risk management as a stragegy to identify and address risks, potential remedies (old and new) to such events and the role of insurance
13:00 » 14:00 Lunch
14:00 » 15:30 Wind, sun and alternative fuels – New opportunities and challenges in the transport industry and supply economy in wake of Europe's planned energy transition
The Session will address the most recent developments in energy transition in Europe, from legal and practical perspectives
15:30 » 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 » 17:20 When the ship has sailed - Enforcing contracts in turbulent times
The Session is intended to offer a wide overview on how unpredicted events are currently managed/negotiated in due course of contracts of transport, and, in case negotiations fails, to share experiences from case-law in mediation/litigation/arbitration and the like; furthermore, the Session might also encompass contributions form the insolvency world, on how the above issues are managed from the insolvency perspective
17:20 » 18:00 Commission updates
20:30 Dinner
Further details will soon be shared

Saturday 15 June 2024

09:30 » 16:00 Day out - sailing on a regatta
Included in the registration fee
20:00 Optional dinner
Not included in the registration fee, payable locally