Dire Straits Watch On The Elbe

    Hapag-Lloyd AG monitors the status of cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz on a screen last week.
  This week just as the ocean’s most famous chokepoint is in the crosshairs of world attention, here came an intensive two-day April 28-29 close encounter that began face-to face as World Trade Dialogue Hamburg 2026 opened with a keynote by Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Katherina Reiche, offering a high-level political perspective on European economic security and resilience.
  Initiated by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Hapag-Lloyd AG, working jointly with STUDIO ZX, World Trade Dialogue Hamburg 2026 gathered together global leaders from business, policy and academia to discuss impact of transformation, resilience and connectivity on the future of world trade.
  April 28 speakers included Rolf Habben Jansen, Hapag-Lloyd AG; Nico Lange, Munich Security Conference; Transatlantic Security and Defense, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA); Simone Menne, American Chamber of Commerce in Germany e.V. (AmCham Germany); Claudia Oeking, Airbus; Denis Redonnet, European Commission; Brad Setser, Council on Foreign Relations and Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute.
  Today, April 29 continued with the academic program, featuring 20 research presentations and keynotes by Laura Alfaro Maykall, Inter-American Development Bank and Andrew Bernard, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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