Morning seminar Baltic Grain Exchange 2025

What will International Shipping look like in 10 Years?

The world is changing fast — and so is the shipping industry.
In just a few years, the way we transport grain and commodities across borders will look nothing like it does today. Smarter ships, real-time data, and AI-driven logistics - the future of global trade is already taking shape.
This year´s Morning Seminar at the Baltic Grain Exchange invites you to look ahead at what’s next for international shipping. How will AI, digitalisation, and technology reshape grain logistics, ports, and supply chains? What new opportunities and challenges will this transformation bring for producers, traders, and maritime partners?

Mads Frank

Head of Freight Research & FFA

Copenhagen Merchants

Mads Frank leads Freight Research and FFA at Copenhagen Merchants Group, across CM Navigator and Navi Merchants. He have designed the mathematics behind CM Navigator’s freight modules and applies a decade of modelling to deliver real-time pricing, risk and hedging insights for agricultural supply chains.

Previously he worked as a Freight Trader at Louis Dreyfus Company in Geneva and Danish shipowner DS NORDEN. His career bridges chartering, trading and analytics giving traders decision-ready freight intelligence.

Louisa Follis

Director of Dry Cargo Analysis team

Clarksons Switzerland SA

Louisa Follis joined Clarksons Shipbrokers in early 2019 at their Singapore office following 8 years at grain traders, Bunge, where she first managed the company’s freight research team and then the European agriculture analysis group.


Prior to this, Louisa worked as a tanker market analyst for a shipbroker in London and Singapore. Louisa also has extensive experience as a maritime journalist working in Asia, the Middle East and Americas which followed her Master’s degree in Shipping Trade & Finance from Bayes Business School (City St George’s) in London. She also has a BA Hons in South East Asian Studies and a Graduate Diploma in Law.