S. 1. 5. – Small companies in the East India trade

Chair: Toshiaki Tamaki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Discussant: Lisa Hellman (Lund University) 

• Benjamin Asmussen (Maritime Museum of Denmark) – Small Companies – Grand Networks – the case of the Danish East India Company, the Danish Asiatic Company and beyond
• Pierrick Pourchasse (University of Western Brittany, Brest) – The relations between the French and the Danish East Indian Companies
• Michael-W. Serruys (Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions – Individual fellow (Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, France) – The Ostend Company and the Belgian maritime renewal