Shipping has always depended on interconnected decisions. A chartering choice made ashore affects a master onboard. A reporting framework designed in one organisation can shape workloads across an entire vessel operation. And when something goes wrong, the consequences rarely sit neatly with a single stakeholder. Against that backdrop, the final panel of the RightShip Greece Forum examined how risk, responsibility, and resilience are evolving across the maritime value chain — and why stronger alignment remains difficult even when industry intentions are broadly shared. Moderated by Andrew Roberts , Executive Director, EMEA & Americas at Rightship, the panel featured: Laure Baratgin , Head of Commercial Operations, Rio Tinto and Board of Director, RightShip Eric Aboussouan , VP Strategy, Investments & Partnerships, Cargill and Chairperson, RightShip John Cotzias , President, Hellenic Shipbrokers Association The session explored how organisations are navigating increasing operational complexity, growing volumes of data, and rising expectations around transparency and safety — while also confronting the practical realities of commercial pressure, fragmented standards, and the demands being placed on crews across the system. Shared risk, different realities One of the clearest themes throughout the discussion was that risk may be shared across the maritime ecosystem, but it is often interpreted through very different operational and commercial lenses. John Cotzias observed that while “risk is shared in reality,” it often remains “separated in behaviour.” Owners focus on operational continuity, charterers on cargo and reputation, insurers on claims exposure, and brokers on marketability and commercial disruption. Too often, he suggested, those perspectives only converge once problems emerge rather than earlier in the decision-making process. That fragmentation was repeatedly linked back to operational complexity onboard vessels. Laure Baratgin reflected th