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