What are the impacts of different threats across Asia on commercial shipping?

Asia’s diverse maritime threat landscape – which includes vast seas, narrow bottleneck straits and areas with thousands of islands – lends itself to a wide variety of maritime criminal activities against a backdrop of geopolitical issues that can create territorial tensions.

For decades, the countries along the boundaries of the South China Sea have faced territorial disputes, for the most part relating to China’s attempts to force related decisions based on its infamous nine dash line argument.

This webinar will explore the trends associated with each threat, comparing related statistics, initiatives and other developments that can impact the security of crew and vessels operating in the region. Lessons learned from past scenarios, the present status of activity and projections regarding what is in store for vessels navigating these waters will be shared and discussed.

Speakers:
Thomas Timlen - South-east Asia Analyst
Katie Zeng Xiaojun - North, South and Central Asia Analyst