NCS · est. 2025 Nº 02 · Vilnius MMXXVI

Where trade routes cross

North Container Summit is a year-round community for trade and logistics leaders bridging Europe, the Baltics, Central Asia and China.

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Community meetup · upcoming Kazakhstan · Central Asia
NCS · Astana

Astana. October 13.

An informal high-wine networking evening for Central Asia container leaders - operators, forwarders and depot owners who actually move boxes through the region, ahead of the TransKazakhstan exhibition.

Drinks, a short market update and structured networking at Rixos President Astana. Limited seats - advance registration required.

The evening KZ · UTC+5
Date
October 13, 2026
Format
High wine · Networking
Entry
€70
Seats
Limited

Hosted by NCS. Venue shared with confirmed guests two weeks before.

Manifesto

We're building infrastructure for an industry that connects continents.

NCS started as a summit. It's becoming the operating system for how trade and logistics professionals across Eurasia find each other, do business, and move the industry forward.

  1. 01

    Community over event

    The flagship summit is the campfire. The real value is the 364 other days - introductions, deals, recommendations, second meetings.

  2. 02

    Eurasia over region

    Container flows ignore borders. So do we. Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Almaty, Tashkent, Shanghai - one community, many cities.

  3. 03

    Trust over reach

    Curated membership. Vetted operators, traders, terminal owners, tech vendors. Density of useful conversations, not headcount.

  4. 04

    Year-round over annual

    Closed dinners between summits. Founder calls. Shared market intelligence. The summit is the peak - the community is the mountain.

Recap · NCS 2026

Vilnius held the room. The community answered.

28-29 May 2026
Aerotorija Arena · Vilnius
2nd
Annual edition
8
Industry partners
2
Days in Vilnius
New capital / year

The format that worked.

One capital per year. Two days. Industry leaders in the room - no tourists. Stage time earned by domain expertise, not sponsorship tier.

2025 launched in Riga. 2026 moved to Vilnius. The principle: every edition is a different city on the Eurasian container map, with a local Country Partner anchoring the program.

Country Partner 2026
Lithuania
KLASCO
Klaipėda · Lithuania
Partners on stage
  • KLASCO
    KLASCO Country Partner · Terminal
  • Latflex
    Latflex Forwarder
  • RUT
    RUT Riga Universal Terminal
  • RMI
    RMI Tank Operator
  • Mann Lines
    Mann Lines Shipping
  • MSG
    MSG Marine Insurance
  • B41
    B41 AI Automation Partner
  • VIACHAIN
    VIACHAIN IoT / Container tracking
Inaugural edition · NCS 2025

Riga started it all. 240 leaders, one room.

19-20 May 2025
Hanzas Perons · Riga, Latvia
240
Professionals
100+
Companies
15+
Countries
2
Days in Riga
Watch the recap film from NCS Riga 2025.

Where the community was born.

On May 19-20, 2025, the first North Container Summit brought together around 240 transport and logistics professionals from more than 100 companies across 15+ countries.

Day one paired a first-hand visit to the Baltic Container Terminal with welcome drinks and a Daugava river cruise hosted by the Port of Riga. Day two filled Hanzas Perons with market reviews, expert talks and structured Business Speed-Dating.

Speakers from CMA CGM, COSCO Shipping, the Freeport of Riga, Drewry, Mann Lines, HHLA, RB Rail, LTG Cargo and more set the tone for what NCS would become.

From the floor

Not enough good words. In their own.

What participants wrote to us after the summit — unprompted, in their own words. The deals start on the floor; the friendships outlast them.

There are really not enough good words to describe your professional approach to organizing this summit — and even more for the hospitality and friendship received. Lots of interesting meetings, lots of fun, very 'gezellig'. Up to the next one, and for sure to doing more business together.
DA David Aerts Belgo Multimodal · Antwerp, Belgium Vilnius '26
Partners on stage · 2025 · 2026
The community

80+ companies in the room.

Every brand that joined an NCS edition - operators, forwarders, terminals, shipping lines, depot owners, insurers, IoT, and logistics tech.

As seen in

Independent coverage. Industry-verified.

Eurasian trade press, port authorities and participant companies have written about NCS editions in four languages. A public trail of where we showed up.

Hosted by Conway Container Solutions

NCS was founded by Conway in 2025. We pair Conway's container trading & leasing operations across LV / LT / EE / CN / CA with the wider industry community.

conwaycs.com

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NCS 2027

Tallinn. Next.

The third edition. A new capital. Same principle - density of useful conversations, not headcount.

  1. Riga
    2025
  2. Vilnius
    2026
  3. Tallinn
    2027
  4. -
    2028
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