Hong Kong Maritime Week 2025 sets cruise: Navigating to greener future as international maritime capital
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The extremely expected yearly occasion, Hong Kong Maritime Week (HKMW) 2025, is set to release from next Sunday for 7 successive days (November 16 to 22), marking its ninth edition because 2016 as one of the premier worldwide events for the maritime and port markets. This year’s HKMW holds unique significance as it is the first-ever edition following the facility of the Hong Kong Maritime and Port Development Board (HKMPDB) on July 1 this year.
With the primary style “Navigating to a Greener Future” and the tagline “Propel Hong Kong”HKMW 2025 highlights Hong Kong’s leading position as an international maritime capital and supplies a top-level platform for worldwide stakeholders, consisting of policymakers, senior agents of worldwide organisations along with commercial stars and professionals to share their point of views and exchange views on different subjects of interest to the international maritime market.
With over 50 occasions arranged by more than 70 global, Chinese Mainland and regional organisers, guests will be immersed in a dynamic program including flagship online forums, top-level workshops and public outreach efforts. Significant occasions worth highlighting are the Opening Ceremony of HKMW 2025; the HKMPDB Flagship Session – Hong Kong: A Global Maritime Capital; the World Maritime Merchants Forum 2025; the Asian Logistics, Maritime and Aviation Conference; the 2nd Hong Kong Global Maritime Trade Summit arranged by the International Chamber of Shipping; the TradeWinds Ship Recycling Forum 2025; and the International Bunker Industry Association Annual Convention 2025 that will be kept in Hong Kong for the very first time, along with the Seminar on Energy Transition of Shipping and From Waste to Wealth: Unlocking Investment Opportunities in Ship Recycling arranged by the International Maritime Organization.
With a view to raising the neighborhood’s awareness of Hong Kong’s maritime market and motivating members of the general public to sign up with the public-facing HKMW activities, consisting of the Free Family Fun Day arranged by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, the Transport and Logistics Bureau will partner with Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) to produce 2 function stories. The 2 stories will include unique interviews with the Chairman of the HKMPDB, Dr Moses Cheng, and the Chairman of the HKMW Task Force, Mr Wellington Koo, providing insights into Hong Kong’s tactical function in worldwide maritime affairs, and will be relayed on TVB Jade at around 7.30 pm on November 17 and 18. Audiences are motivated to tune in and find out more about the interesting advancements forming Hong Kong’s maritime future.
In a transfer to expand its digital footprint and engage a broader audience, HKMW 2025 will likewise produce a series of brief videos to be shared throughout different social networks channels, including interviews with market leaders and occasion organisers who will clarify the leading function of Hong Kong as a worldwide maritime center.
To learn more on HKMW and Hong Kong’s maritime market, please check out the sites of HKMW 2025 (www.hkmw.hk/en/index.html) and the HKMPDB (www.hkmpdb.gov.hk/en/index.html).