Mare Forum ShipFinance 2004 

Shipowners vs. Capital Providers
- A TANGO FOR TWO -

Friday 29 October 2004
Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky - Amsterdam

INTRODUCTION

There is no feeling to beat the jolt you get when a deal comes together. When timing, personalities, assets and finance all fall into step, everyone goes home walking taller. The same happens after that rare event, a good conference. When people, topics and timing combine with the right catalyst in the right place, everyone gains more than the sum of the parts. You learn something useful. You meet the person you need to. You find the missing piece to complete your next deal. You get something off your chest. And you have fun doing it. That’s the magic of a good industry get together.

There aren’t many. Most finance conferences today are simply long sequences of sponsor firms advertising themselves to an audience that isn’t listening. But the Mare Forum Ship Finance Forum is different. Run by Mare Forum, backed by the major Dutch ship finance banks, and open to anyone as long as they are willing to take part, the first three Tango for Two events have attracted and pleased shipowners, charterers and financiers in equal measure, while managing to keep the normal conference fodder off the platform.

Mare Forum Shipfinance 2004, set for Amsterdam, Friday 29 October 2004, will take the spirit and backing built up over the last three successful events and deliver a day guaranteed to excite, disturb, please and pay dividends for everyone. No long speeches, no advertising, no posing by the panel. Instead real people, real topics, real participation.

With sessions geared to address the current issues in true Mare Forum style, at Mare Forum Shipfinance 2004 you will have the opportunity to participate in sessions on topics like:

  Emerging and Shipping Markets Forecast:
The World Beyond China!! What about India?
 

  Long Term Financing of Cargo Movements – Optimisation:
Synergy between Owners-Charterers-Capital Providers
 

  Shipping Investment Forum;
A Global Positioning System for Shipping Investment:
Guiding Investors to a Profitable Destination
 

  A Pantheon of Shipping Banks:
An examination of the differences of culture, and differences of structure /law/practice between banks within a given area and between banks from different areas
 

  Extra! Extra! Do Tanker Owners Get the Ship Finance They Deserve?

Intertanko INTERTANKO will be holding its Executive Committee and Council Meetings (27-28 October) back to back with Mare Forum, and the conference content will reflect the high level and quality of input from the tanker owners present.

Programme http://www.mareforum.com/shipfinance_2004_programme.htm
 

The Speakers

STEPHEN VAN DYCK
Chairman of INTERTANKO & Chairman, Maritrans Inc.
KATHLEEN HAINES
CFO, OMI Corporation
SanjaY Mehta
Managing Director & CEO, Essar Shipping Ltd., India
Cesare d'Amico
CEO, d'Amico di Navigazione
STEFANO ROSINA
President, Premuda
GRAHAM PORTER
Vice President, Seaspan Container Line Ltd
HERMAN MARKS
Commercial Director, Vroon BV
AART KORTELAND
Chairman, Royal Association of Netherlands’ Shipowners
ZHANG JING
Research COSCO, Bejing China
PRABHAT VIRA
Global Head of Commodity Finance of ABN AMRO Bank
REIDAR BREKKE
Managing Director, Poten Capital Services, LLC
Nick HUBBARD
Howe Robinson Shipbrokers London
FILIP BECKERS
Transport Procurement Manager, Masterfoods
IAIN SHAW
Managing Director, Braemar Seascope
Nicolai Hansteen
Chief Economist, Lorentzen & Stemoco
TOM EVEN MORTENSEN
Managing Director, IMAREX
HUGH BAKER
Director, ING BANK
ANTHONY ARGYROPOULOS
Managing Director, Transport Capital Markets, DZ Financial Markets LLC
HILD KINDER
Carnegie ASA
ULF HOLLANDER
CFO, MPC Capital
PAUL SLATER
Chairman, First International Corp
BOTE DE VRIES
Head of Investment Management and agent of Navigation Finance
Corporation and Deucalion Aviation Funds, DVB Bank
UGO SALERNO
CEO, RINA
JAAP KALVERKAMP
Director of Global Shipping Fortis Bank
TACO VAN DER MAST
Member of the Managing Board and Managing Director NIB CAPITAL BANK
PETER BERGMAN
Director, Global Shipping Group, ING Bank
DAGFINN LUNDE
Member of the Board of DVB Bank and CEO of the Shipping Division
William Gallagher
President International Registries, USA
ADRIAAN AERTS
Head of Shipping Group Rotterdam, ABN AMRO BANK
INGMAR LOGES
Director Vereins - und Westbank AG
JOHN GUY
Partner, Merlin Corporate Communications
HANS PAYER
External Affairs Advisor, Germanischer Lloyd, Germany
PAUL LEAND
CEO, American Marine Advisors
KLAUS PIEPER
General Director, Deutsche Schiffsbank
CHRISTIAN NIESWANDT
Head of International Clients, HSH Nordbank AG, Germany

and more to come...

The Conference Committee:

Jannis KOSTOULAS
Managing Director, Mare Forum

Hugo MODDERMAN
DVB Bank N.V.

Gust BIESBROECK
Deputy Director Global Shipping, Fortis Bank

Peter BERGMAN
Director Global Shipping Group, ING Bank

Bart VELDHUIZEN
Associate Director Shipping Department NIB Capital Bank

Paul AERTS
Shipping Group Rotterdam, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Anders BAARDVIK
Executive Manager INTERTANKO

John GUY
Conference Chairman & Partner, Merlin Corporate Communications