- Conclusions -

 


 

Lloyd's List


 

 


 


 

The Speakers
( as of 24 August )
The list of speakers will be daily updated

Michael Grey
Conference Chairman
Columnist Lloyd’s List

Ioannis Tzoannos
Secretary General Ministry of Mercantile Marine, Greece

Joe Borg
EU Commissioner Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Leonidas Dimitriades - Eugenides
Member of the Board of Directors
Union of Greek Shipowners

Harris Vafias
 Chief Executive Officer, StelthGas Inc.

Jannis Platsidakis
Chief Executive Officer
Anangel Shipping

George Gourdomichalis
Chairman & President FreeSeas Inc.

Stamatis Molaris
President & CEO Quintana Maritime Ltd

Sergey Burima
 General Manager
Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflot

Roberto Giorgi
CEO V.Ships

Jeffrey G. Lantz
Director of Standards, Prevention Directorate
US Coast Guard

Nathalie Soisson
Transport Safety Group Coordinator, Total

Mauro Balzarini
Managing Director, SIBA Ships

George Economou
Chairman
DryShips Inc.

Geert Dokter
Managing Director, MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship BV

Rajaish Bajpaee
President of the International Ship Managers' Association and
President, The Eurasia Group of Companies

Nikos Varvates
Chairman, Naftotrade Shipping and Commercial SA
Chairman of the Union of Short Sea Operators in Greece

Erik Bartnes
Member of the Board, Pareto

Alan Gavin
Marine Director
Lloyd's Register

Basil Mavroleon,
Managing Director, Charles R. Weber Company, Inc. USA

Willem de Ruiter
CEO, European Maritime Safety Agency EMSA

Paul Markides
 Director, Oil Companies International Marine Forum OCIMF

Anthony Zolotas
Managing Director Eurofin

Paul Leand
President and CEO AMA Capital

Paul Slater
Chairman, First International Corp

John Richardson
European Commission - Coordinator Maritime Policy Task Force

Brian Wadsworth
Director, Logistics and Maritime Transport Department for
Transport UK

Robert C. Somerville
Chairman and CEO American Bureau of Shipping

Rear Admiral Robert C. North (USCG RET)
President, Northstar Maritime

Arthur Bowring
Managing Director, Hong Kong Shipowners' Association

Birgit Sølling Olsen
 Director for Shipping Policy, Danish Maritime Authority

Jean-Frédéric Laurent
Head of Research, Barry Rogliano Salles

Colin Cridland
Director Research, Braemar Seascope

Fotis Karamitsos
Director, Maritime and Inland Transport; Intermodality
DG Transport and Energy, European Commission

Ida Skard
Director General
The Royal Ministry of Trade and Industry Norway

Clay Maitland
 Managing Partner, IRI/Marshall Islands Registry

Ugo Salerno
CEO RINA

Niko Wijnolst
Chairman, Dutch Maritime Network

 Alfons Guinier
Managing Director, ECSA

 Marianne Lie
Managing Director, Norwegian Shipowners Association
Dimitis Anagnostopoulos
Head of Greek Shipping ABN AMRO

 Representative
CEO Germanischer Lloyd

 George M. Chalos
Partner, Fowler Rodriquez & Chalos

Bote de Vries
Head of Investment Management and agent of
Navigation Finance Corporation and Deucalion Aviation Funds
Jean Richards
Executive Chairman, Quantum Shipping Services Limited

 Jannis Kostoulas
Managing Director Mare Forum

 Dimitris Mitsatsos
Helmepa/Intermepa

 John Guy
Partner, Merlin Corporate Communications

Harilaos Psaraftis
Professor, National Technical University of Athens and
Former CEO, Piraeus Port Authority

Dimitrios V. Lyridis
Assistant professor, NTUA and Executive Consultant, OceanFinance

Hanna Lee Behrens
DNV Fellow - Environment

Bernard Anne
Managing Director, Bureau Veritas

Roberto Cazzulo
Deputy Director, Marine Division RINA SPA

Michael X. Cabibbo
Managing Director, Worldwide Ecological Shipping & Transport

Representatives
from the Shipowning Community, Regulatory bodies, financial institutions and shipbrokers....

and many more to confirm...
 

 
 

 

 
 

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MARE FORUM 2006

 

"...τα πάντα ρεί ... everything flows..."

Herakleitos 475 BC
 

 Monday and Tuesday 25 & 26 September 2006

 Astir Palace Vouliagmeni (Arion) Resort
Athens - Greece

- The programme as of 20 September -

Sunday 24 September
18:00 Welcome Reception hosted by EURASIA
   

 
Monday 25 September
09:00  

OPENING by the conference chairman

Michael Grey

Columnist Lloyd’s List
09:05   WELCOME
 Jannis Kostoulas
Managing Director MARE FORUM
09:06  

George Gratsos
President of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping and
Member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Greek Shipowners
 
    Session 1

Setting the scene: The Stakeholders

What has been achieved
What has to be done
 
09:10 Ioannis Tzoannos
Secretary General
Ministry of Mercantile Marine, Greece
 
09:20 Joe Borg
EU Commissioner
Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
 
09:30 Ida Skard
 Director General
 The Royal Ministry of Trade and Industry Norway
 
09:40 Brian Wadsworth
Director, Logistics and Maritime Transport Department for
Transport UK
 
09:50

Alfons Guinier

Managing Director
European Community Shipowners Association ECSA
 
10:00

Robert C. Somerville

Chairman and CEO, American Bureau of Shipping
 Vice Chairman, IACS
 
10:10  

Jeffrey G. Lantz
 Director of Standards, Prevention Directorate
US Coast Guard
 
10:20       discussion
 
11:00    break hosted by Bureau Veritas



 
    Session 2

 Sustainability

 


The emergence of Europe as a distinctive element in maritime policy                  

The Oil Companies agenda

What news from the EMSA front?

Flag Competition and Quality Shipping.

To what extent can economic incentives, self-regulation and corporate social responsibility complement government regulation?
 
   

Session chairman

Nathalie Soisson

Transport Safety Group Coordinator, Total
 
11:20  

The emergence of Europe as a distinctive element in maritime policy
Fotis Karamitsos

Director, Maritime and Inland Transport; Intermodality
DG Transport and Energy, European Commission
 
11:30   

The Oil Companies agenda
Paul Markides
Director, Oil Companies International Marine Forum OCIMF
 
11:40  

What news from the EMSA front?
Willem de Ruiter

CEO, European Maritime Safety Agency EMSA
 
11:50  

Flag Competition and Quality Shipping
Clay Maitland

Managing Partner, IRI/Marshall Islands Registry
 
12:00   Which Regulations for sustainable shipping?
Ugo Salerno
CEO RINA
 
12:10   Forum discussion between speakers discussion panellists (see below) and audience participants on the following theme:


Should an optional EU register be made available? What conditions and incentives could be contemplated for such a register?

Should an EU coastguard service be set up? What might be its aim and functions?

Should the European Community become a member of more multilateral maritime organizations?
 
    discussion panellists:
 

Brian Wadsworth
Director, Logistics and Maritime Transport Department for
Transport UK
 

Birgit Sølling Olsen
 Director for Shipping Policy, Danish Maritime Authority
 
 Alfons Guinier
 Managing Director
European Community Shipowners' Association ECSA
 

Marianne Lie
 Managing Director Norwegian Shipowners' Association
 

Ida Skard
 Director General
 The Royal Ministry of Trade and Industry Norway


Ken McLean
Director and Chief Executive
The Bahamas Maritime Authority

 Niko Wijnolst
 Chairman Dutch Maritime Network


 
13:00  

Lunch hosted by Germanischer Lloyd

 
  Session 3

 Safety, Environment
changing attitudes

 


The continuous debate on the new class rules

Building New Ships: I am getting mad..
Goal Based Standards and the Safety-Level Approach debate

The Green shipping agenda: What has it be done?
Challenges on atmospheric emissions

Social Responsibility and Scrapping issues
 

Session chairman
Rear Admiral Robert C. North (USCG RET)
President, Northstar Maritime
 
14:20 The Green shipping agenda:  What has to be done
 Till Braun
 Head of Competence Centre
Germanischer Lloyd
 
14:30

Goal Based Standards and the Safety-Level Approach debate
Harilaos Psaraftis
Professor, National Technical University of Athens and
Former CEO, Piraeus Port Authority
 
14:40 The new class rules debate
Alan Gavin
Marine Director, Lloyd's Register
 
14:50

Building New Ships: I am getting mad..
Geert Dokter
Managing Director
MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship
 
15:00

Marine propulsion from refuse-derived fuel

Michael X. Cabibbo
Managing Director, Worldwide Ecological Shipping & Transport
 
15:10 Social Responsibility and Scrapping issues
Hanna Lee Behrens
DNV Fellow - Environment
 
15:20 Forum discussion between speakers discussion panellists (see below) and audience participants on the following theme:
 
Is shipping being left behind in the race for green solutions?
 

 		 discussion panellists:
Dimitris Mitsatsos
Helmepa/Intermepa
Willem de Ruiter
CEO, European Maritime Safety Agency EMSA
 

Nathalie Soisson

Transport Safety Group Coordinator, Total

Niko Wijnolst
Chairman, Dutch Maritime Network

Mauro Balzarini
Managing Director, SIBA ships

Marianne Lie
 Managing Director Norwegian Shipowners Association

 Robert C. Somerville
Chairman and CEO American Bureau of Shipping

 Sergey Burima
 General Manager
Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflot

 Bernard Anne
Managing Director, Bureau Veritas
 
16:00

Break hosted by The Bahamas Maritime Authority

  Session 4

 Human Factors

Challenges

 

This session is sponsored by the
State University of New York, Maritime College;

an alumnus of the University, is funding the sponsorship

Supply and demand - Maintaining skills bases
More than mariners - driving up brain power
The debate on the European maritime skills base has focussed attention on the increasing reliance on external manpower and possible vulnerabilities. The lessons of the BIMCO/ISF manpower update are being digested and how are these being reflected in training and recruitment. Is there a need for an academic enhancement of sea skills ? Career mapping and ship-shore progression ? Upgrading the image of seafarers and the need for better treatment. Is criminalisation a serious deterrent to recruitment? How can the decline in the number of Europeans entering certain maritime professions be reversed and the safety and attractiveness of jobs ensured?

How can better working conditions, wages and safety be combined with sectoral competitiveness?

How can the quality of education, training and certification be assured?
How the ILO on the new Convention, it will affect the industry
 

Session chairman:

Rajaish Bajpaee

President
The Eurasia Group of Companies

 
16:30  

Supply and Demand

Roberto Giorgi

Chief Executive Officer

V.Ships

 
16:40   

Criminalization challenges

George M. Chalos

Partner
Fowler Rodriquez & Chalos

 
16:50

More than mariners; driving up brain power

Jannis Platsidakis
Managing Director

Anangel Maritime Services Inc

 
17:00 Human Factors and Flag Responsibility
Ken McLean
Director and Chief Executive
The Bahamas Maritime Authority
 
17:10

Is there a need for an academic enhancement of sea skills ?

Larry Howard

Chairman of the Department of Global Transporation and Business State Universtiy of New York, Maritime College

 
17:20 Discussion on the following theme: 

  

How can the decline in the number of Europeans entering certain maritime professions be reversed and the safety and attractiveness of jobs ensured?
 
18:10

end  of the 1st day
 
19:30 – 20:30 Drinks hosted by IRI/Marshall Islands Registry