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Shipowners’ Perspective

28th Annual HACC-NACC Shipping Conference

Online Event

Blank Rome Partner Jeanne M. Grasso will serve as a panel moderator at the 28th Annual Joint Shipping Conference, hosted by the Hellenic-American and Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce. The conference will be held as an online, virtual event on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:35 p.m. EST, with a breakout room to follow. Each year the conference focuses on a specific theme of importance to the global maritime industry, with panels and speakers discussing and debating cutting-edge issues in this rapidly changing sector. ​This year’s theme is “Out of the Abyss—Shipping Roars Back?” allowing for lively discussions of important and challenging issues facing the maritime industry in turbulent and fast-changing times.

Jeanne’s session, “Shipowners’ Perspective,” will take place at 1:50 p.m. EST, with a live Q&A session afterwards, and she will be joined on the panel by:

  • Clay Maitland, IRI/The Marshall Islands Registry, Conference Co-Chair
  • Sam H. Norton, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.
  • Lois Zabrocky, International Seaways, Inc.
  • George Mangos, Interunity Group

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to be a Gold Sponsor of this year’s conference.

For more information, please visit the event website.

You can read a recap of the conference in “HACC NACC Conference: Shipowner Hangovers, Covid Frictions, and Regulatory Punishments,” by Barry Parker, published at gCaptain on February 9, 2022.