OK, so it wasn’t exactly a scientific survey.
But at the annual broker-fest called the Association of Ship Brokers & Agents (ASBA)’s Miami cargo conference, a panel representing owner interests unanimously backed shipping’s traditional intermediaries as essential cogs even in the face of the advance of artificial intelligence.
Admittedly, it was a loaded question from an audience member, who ASBA executive director Kate Torpey said was an unidentified broker, that got the pot boiling.
