• TPM25
  • March 2-5, 2025 | Long Beach Convention Center

Bertrand Chen

Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN)

CEO

Bertrand Chen is the CEO of Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), a neutral, not-for-profit consortium enabling paperless, accessible and sustainable global trade. Bertrand oversees the consortium’s overall strategy, with a mandate to serve the best interests of the industry at large and is not influenced by any agenda and tradition.

Bertrand is passionate about unlocking business value in traditional businesses through digital transformation and data science. Prior to his role at GSBN, Bertrand served as the Group Data Scientist at CK Hutchison Holdings, a conglomerate headquartered in Hong Kong with global business interests spanning various sectors.

Prior to this, Bertrand spent a decade on Wall Street as a trader in credit and equity derivatives for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch in New York City and in Hong Kong. Today he brings this experience to breakdown silos between the global supply chain and the financial system which underpins it. 

Sessions With Bertrand Chen

Monday, 3 March

  • 04:00pm - 04:30pm (PST) / 04/mar/2025 12:00 am - 04/mar/2025 12:30 am

    TPM Tech: An eBL Status Check
    In 2023, the Digital Container Shipping Association got a joint commitment from its container line members: Each carrier vowed to migrate fully to electronic bills of lading by 2030. The ambitious target wasn’t just about the need to digitize a primarily paper-based and inefficient promise, but a signal of things to come. The eBL, after all, is just one document, but there are dozens of documents accompanying ocean freight shipments and each would ideally be available in a digital format. What’s more, digitizing the data within those documents might herald a new paradigm for understanding and enabling trade flows. In this session, a trio of protagonists in the move to digitize eBLs will provide an update on the state of play, addressing these and other questions: Who is leading the charge? What hurdles still need to be overcome? Are shippers on board with this change? 
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