Maritime Standard Tanker Conference 2025

The 10th annual Maritime Standard Tanker Conference 2025 will be held on Thursday 30th October at the iconic Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai.

Aimed at key decision makers and opinion formers within the tanker shipping business, the event takes place at an uncertain time for the industry, given economic volatility, and a host of geopolitical issues. There is also growing pressure to comply with tough environmental regulations, presenting a series of technical and commercial hurdles. While there is long term optimism about the future of the industry, there are certainly short term challenges, and how best to navigate through these will be the core, overarching theme of this year’s conference, Tanker shipping negotiates challenging market headwinds.

The conference will focus on the main headline market trends in the crude, products, chemical and gas tanker markets, highlighting commercial, geopolitical and technical challenges, along with issues relating to sustainability, new technology, and the need to continually upgrade the wide range of services provided to support the tanker sector.

Market prospects are still rated highly promisingly overall by most analysts, with strong global demand for oil and oil products and relatively stable shipping capacity. The newbuilding order book has picked up over the past two years with the tanker orderbook-to-existing-fleet ratio climbing from under 5% to roughly 15%. While this has to be taken in context of an aging fleet with many vessels eventually destined for scrapping, it is a tend casting a growing shadow over longer term prospects