In May and June, at the height of the Hormuz crisis, Kapa Research interviewed shipowners and C-suite executives from the world’s leading shipping groups, from Europe’s main maritime centres to the United States and Asia.
What the shipping industry’s leadership told us?
- 94% are optimistic about their company’s prospects, and 70% say global shipping is in better shape than five years ago.
- 76% name geopolitical crises as the industry’s most serious problem. Yet 40% say the Hormuz crisis creates new opportunities for their own company.
- Asked whether shipping wants peace or benefits from turmoil, 54% chose peace. 46% did not.
- 76% expect China and India to shape the industry’s future. 17% point to the West.
- 65% already use or pilot AI. Only 7% use it extensively.
Few respondent groups are harder to reach than the people who run the world’s largest fleets. Our researchers completed 314 interviews with them on three continents while the Strait of Hormuz blockage was still unfolding. The survey is therefore a real-time record of the crisis as the industry experienced it, in the executives’ own words.
Studies like this are at the core of our work. We reach senior decision-makers wherever they are based geographically and turn their answers into evidence that policymakers, international institutions, multinational companies and the media can use.
In parallel, based on the findings of the study, Kapa Research published an extensive article in POLITICO, which you can read here.