The organizers of the Posidonia 2020 maritime conference have announced its cancellation. Posidonia an biannual event was originally scheduled for June 2020, later postponed to October 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have reached this difficult decision following close consultation with many exhibitors and with our shipping community stakeholders, after assessing the current state of Covid-19 in countries around the world,” Posidonia Exhibitions said in a statement. “The worrying increase of cases in certain jurisdictions and the inability to predict reliably where the pandemic will take us in the months ahead, compounds the uncertainty that now prevails, imposing upon us circumstances that are beyond our control.”
The organization said that waiting longer might mean that they would be forced to cancel at short notice, which would impose greater costs on participants. Exhibitors would need to invest now in order to be ready for an October date, and that timeline can no longer be guaranteed. – Ismael Gerli
