Industry Lecture

Randy Giveans from Navigator Gas will cover the rules and regulations for maritime ESG. Anuj Chopra with ESG Plus will discuss implementation.

companies are reducing carbon, new technologies in the industry, what innovations we expect to see in the near future, and what we hope the maritime industry will look like by 2050.

Margaret Kidd, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain & Logistics Technology at the University of Houston, and Houston Maritime Center Board Member, discusses Supply Chain Disruption and how to manage shipping logistics issues and concerns.

The marine industry is in a state of continuous improvement, as it looks at various options to reduce and remove carbon from it’s fuel sources, driven by regulatory, social and financial pressures

The port of Houston is the busiest port in vessel and barge movements and for the second year in the row, is the largest U.S. port by tonnage, with over 200 docks and 270 facilities. The port is also home to the largest petrochemical manufacturing complex in the nation and the largest Gulf Coast container port, handling 69% of the US Gulf Coast container traffic.

We’ll discuss the up-and-coming industry of offshore wind energy generation with experts from the environmental and industry sides.

The presentation will discuss the parallel developments in the commercial oil industry and related chartering models. It begins with the colonization of producer nations (mainly by the British and Dutch) to Independence movements in the Middle East, Africa, and South America. It then follows the corresponding change in oil trading from a strictly term-driven process to a spot market emerging in the early 1970’s to the commoditization of oil in the following decade and beyond.

Port Houston is a 25-mile-long complex of diversified public and private facilities. With over 200 million tons of product transported annually, it has grown to be one of the world’s busiest ports. The Houston Ship Channel allows ocean-going vessels to travel between the Port and the Gulf of Mexico.