AHMEDABAD: Daily Shipping Times Proudly Organised and Managed Gujarat Maritime Summit on Friday, 18th October 2024 in Ahmedabad at Hotel Courtyard by Marriott, Ramdevnagar, Ahmedabad. After the Grand Success of the 1st Edition last year, the 2nd Edition of the Summit received an even more resounding response from the entire Maritime and Logistics Trade.
Daily Shipping Times expresses its Heartfelt Gratitude to all its Event Partners, Industry Stalwarts and Distinguish Guests in helping us make this Summit a memorable one. 

Leading Dignitaries and Industry Veterans of the Maritime and Logistics industry comprising Shipping Stalwarts, Trade and Industry Experts, Port Officials, Academician, CEOs, were among the distinguished dignitaries that flocked in scores at the 2nd Edition of Gujarat Maritime Summit.
The Theme of this year was Grow with Gujarat in the Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 and the Summit comprised of 2 insightful Panel Discussions.

The 1st Panel Discussion was on the Topic of “The Impact of Current Geo-Political Scenario on Global Shipping” which was brilliantly moderated by Industry Veteran Mr. Shantanu Bhadkamkar, Managing Director – ATC Group. He elucidated the broad factors that were impacting the maritime industry due to the current Geo-Political scenario and how to minimize its impact. He opined that Central Government always had some constructive policies and implementation is with the States. And here we can say that Gujarat has been exceptional for last few years. He acknowledged and commemorated the role of Gujarat Maritime Board for being the most active Maritime Board in our sector.
The Panellists for this Discussion included - Mr. Sunil Vaswani – Executive Director, Container Shipping Lines Association, Mr. Arun Kumar - President, Association of Multimodal Transport Operators of India, Mr. Nityam Khosla – Director, Teamglobal Logistics Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Amit Oza - F.I.C.S. - Astramar Shipping and Trading Services, Mr. Satyen Desai – COO, CKB Group, Mr. Christopher Phillips – Director, Seatech Shipping & Projects (I) Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Kuruvilla Varghese Chalishery – Chief Commercial Officer, Adani Logistics Ltd. and Mr. Amanpreet Singh – Vertical Head, Pharma - Jeena & Company.
The Esteemed Panellists of Session 1 were felicitated by Mr. Kaushaal Buch from Total Transport Systems Ltd., Mr. Umang Thakker from Kalash Global Logistics Pvt. Ltd. and Mr. Mayank Kacholiya from ISSGF India Pvt. Ltd.

The 2nd Panel Discussion was on the Topic of “Transforming Logistics through Technology and Digitization” which was moderated by Globally acclaimed Academicism and Stalwart
Mr Samir J. Shah, Director - JBS Jeena Logistics. He opined that I’ve been adapt at using technology and it is just that we never looked at it in that particular fashion. We need to see technology as a facilitator and not as an hinderance or something that’ll take our jobs.
The Panellists for this Discussion included - Dr. Pramod Sant – Chairman - Shipping & Logistics Committee – Indian Merchants' Chamber, Mr. Clarence Xavier, Director Technology - Abrao Group, Mr. Prashant Popat, Director, Velji Dosabhai & Sons Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Sanjay Dixit - Vice President Logistics & Distribution for Intas Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Rachna Gangwar, Professor – Adani University, Ms. Bijal Someshwar - Region Head India - Odex India Solutions, Mr. Jeekshith Shetty – Managing Director, Bhavani Group, and Dr. Darshan Mashroo – Director, EPT Global Logistics Pvt. Ltd. 

The Esteemed Panellists of Session 2 were felicitated by Mr. Satyen Desai from CKB Group,
Mr. Christopher Phillips from Seatech Shipping & Projects (I) Pvt. Ltd. and Mr. Digpalsinh B. Sodha from Fortune Shipping Services Pvt. Ltd.

Panel Moderators and Industry Veterans Mr. Shantanu Bhadkamkar and Mr. Samir J. Shah felicitated the Event Partners.

Ms. Nishita Modi, 3rd Gen DST and Business Development Director delivered the Vote of Thanks.

All in all, 2nd Edition Gujarat Maritime Summit was a successful thought-provoking and knowledge sharing session. Audience engagement with panellists enhanced the overall interaction at the event. The Summit concluded with Networking and Dinner which offered a Grand Engaging Opportunity among the members of the Maritime Trade given the presence of Who’s Who of the Maritime & Logistics Industry.
It is with the ever-lasting trust and support of the trade that Daily Shipping Times achieved milestones and has successfully completed this 2nd Edition Gujarat Maritime Summit and 65 Glorious years of presence in the industry. We look forward to our long-standing relation with the trade and thank everyone again for their precious time and contribution.