Maritime Italy 2009

MARE FORUM

PRESENTS THE FORUM:

4th
MARITIME ITALY 2009

Italy and the World - Quo Vadis?
Recovery of the shipping markets
when and how?

Monday 11 May 2009

Hilton Sorrento Palace
Sorrento - Italy

Mare Forum’s Maritime Italy 2009 brings together many of the leaders of Italian shipping community and squares them up to global players in the shipping and finance world. In a robust forum which is the logical sequence to the successful Maritime Italy conferences held in 2006, 2007 and 2008, you and they will have a chance to join a frank debate on the recovery of the shipping markets, and how and where to raise capital today and in the near future.

The credit crunch is slowing down the global economy and shipping is suffering. But sooner or later the economy will recover and shipping will recover even faster. This conference addresses and explores opportunities as well as dangers while we strive toward global economic recovery. When will shipping come back to normal? Are shipbuilding cancelations and ship scrapping enough to rebalance the fleet? What will happen to global shipping banks and where will the shipping money come from to fund the recovery? How will we manage during the downturn and what are the lessons from the past? All these questions and more will be addressed and answered during this forum.

CEOs from shipping, trading and brokerage companies, key investors in shipping, bankers, consultants and entrepreneurs will gather at this prestigious conference in Sorrento on May 11, 2009 where an exchange of views, visions and valuable information will make this forum another unforgettable and meaningful experience.

We look forward to welcoming you in Sorrento,

Giuseppe Bottiglieri
Conference Chairman
President,Giuseppe Bottiglieri
di Navigazione SpA

Jannis Kostoulas
Managing Director
Mare Forum

THE SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSION PANELLISTS

Giuseppe Bottiglieri
President, Giuseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company SpA
Conference Chairman

Nicola Coccia
President, Confitarma

Ugo Salerno
CEO, RINA

Giuseppe D'Amato
Perseveranza SpA

Mauro Balzarini
Chairman
SIBA Ships SpA

Leonidas Polemis
CEO
Remi Maritime Corporation

Mariella Bottiglieri
Managing Director
Giuseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company SpA

Maurizio d’Amico
Director
D'Amico Società di Navigazione SpA

Ms Pinar Kaptanoglu
Member of the Board
Kaptanoglu Holding

Angelo D’ Amato
CEO
Perseveranza SpA

Geert Dokter
Managing Director
Hanzevast Shipping

Paul Slater
Chairman & Chief Executive, First International Corp.
Vice Chairman, Griffin Holdings Group, LLC

Jonathan Bird
General Manager
Noble Europe

John D'Ancona
Howe Robinson & Co. Ltd.

Ralph Leszczynski
Head of Research
Banchero Costa – China

Fabrizio Vettosi
CEO,Efigestioni SGR

Efilog Private Equity

Bart Veldhuizen
Managing Director, Head of Ship Finance,
Lloyds TSB

Joep Gorgels
Head of Transportation Europe
Fortis Bank Nederland

Bote de Vries
Managing Director

Finamar

Antony Zolotas
Managing Director
Eurofin

Nikos Stratis
Northern Shipping Funds

Representative
Italian Bank

Brett Salt
General Manager
Green Recycling Initiative

Roberto Cazzulo
Director, RINA

John Banaszkiewicz
FIS

William J. Sember
President
ABS Europe

Apostolos Poulovassilis
Regional Marine Manager,
Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
Lloyd's Register

Francesco Lauro
Managing Partner
Studio Legale Lauro

Theo Xenakoudis
Managing Director
International Registries, Piraeus

Jannis Kostoulas
Managing Director
Mare Forum

Guy Verberne
Head of Economic Research
Fortis Bank Nederland