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

Alfons Guinier

Managing Director
European Community Shipowners Association ECSA
 

Robert C. Somerville

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

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

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?
 

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?
 

Lunch hosted by Germanischer Lloyd

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
 

Goal Based Standards and the Safety-Level Approach debate
Harilaos Psaraftis
Professor, National Technical University of Athens and
Former CEO, Piraeus Port Authority
 

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

Marine propulsion from refuse-derived fuel

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

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
 

Break hosted by The Bahamas Maritime Authority

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

Supply and Demand

Roberto Giorgi

Chief Executive Officer

V.Ships

Criminalization challenges

George M. Chalos

Partner
Fowler Rodriquez & Chalos

More than mariners; driving up brain power

Jannis Platsidakis
Managing Director

Anangel Maritime Services Inc

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

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

end  of the 1st day
 

The Energy reality - Liquid Bulk - Dry Bulk & Containers - The Transportation of Russian Energy - The Ice Class market in Perspective - The (Greek) S & P Market - Energy Renewables - Shipping and transport patterns - Driven by supply/ demand balances, and the compulsion for good timing in a traditionally volatile industry, how is the industry to prepare for future economic uncertainties? How dependent is shipping becoming on the Asian giants?
 

Basil Mavroleon,

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

Liquid Bulk: Oil & Gas
Harris Vafias
CEO, StelthGas Inc.

From Russia with Love
The Transportation of Russian Energy
Sergey Burima
General Manager
Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflots

Energy Renewables: The new IMO regulations on the vegoil and bio-fuels trade from a fleet supply perspective
Colin Cridland

Director Research
Braemar Seascope

Where to invest your money today:

any fresh ideas?

Erik Bartnes
Chairman of the Board
Pareto Group

George Gourdomichalis

Chairman & President
FreeSeas  Inc.

George Economou

Chairman
DryShips Inc.

Mauro Balzarini
Managing Director,
SIBA ships

Jannis Platsidakis
Managing Director

Anangel Maritime Services Inc

Anthony Zolotas

Managing Director
Eurofin

Bote de Vries

Head of Investment Management and agent of Navigation Finance Corporation and Deucalion Aviation Funds
 

 Session chairman

John Guy
Partner
Merlin Corporate Communications
 

Buy sell or hold? What will you do?

Shipping is an important, but just one subject among many that the European Commission addresses in the Green Paper. How will the shipping sector be affected by the commission’s proposal for an integrated European Maritime Policy? Will the shipping sector benefit or will does it stand to lose its position? How should the Commission reconcile the international regulatory framework with its ambitions?

This session will provide some of the answers and the opinions of a broad collection of policy and industry executives. Participation in the debate now is a must as the consultation process of the Commission will end June 2007 and there will only 9 months to go.
 

Introduction by the session chairman

Niko Wijnolst
Chairman
Dutch Maritime Network
 

Shipping in the Green Paper: An Agenda For Discussion

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

Leonidas Dimitriades-Eugenides
Member of the Board of Directors
Union of Greek Shipowners
 

Alfons Guinier
Managing Director
European Community Shipowners Association ECSA
 

Paul Markides
Director
Oil Companies International Marine Forum OCIMF

Brian Wadsworth
Director
Logistics and Maritime Transport Department for
Transport UK
 

Ida Skard
Director General
The Royal Ministry of Trade and Industry
 

Roberto Cazzulo
Deputy Director
Marine Division RINA SPA

 

Birgit Sølling Olsen
Director for Shipping Policy
Danish Maritime Authority
 

Bernard Anne
Managing Director
Bureau Veritas

more discussion panelists to be announced