Making work go easier in tanker operations 10th Tanker Operator Athens Thursday May 25, 2023

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Our 10th Tanker Operator Athens forum on May 25 discusses the challenges running tankers today, and considers whether we could define a standard operating model for how to do it effectively. 

Speakers and panel discussion participants include:

• Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping
• Martin Shaw, managing director, MOAMS and president, IMAREST
• Captain Leonid Zalenski, Group Chief Operating Officer Columbia Shipmanagement 
• Theophanis Theophanous, Managing Director, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Hellas) 
  
• Leonidas Polemis, CEO, Empire Chemical Tankers
• Konstantinos Kyrou, Deputy DPA/CSO, HSQEE Officer, Capital Ship Management
  
• Captain Panos Chatzikyriakos, HSQE director, Unitized Ocean Transport Ltd
• Capt. Alexandros Serpanos, Fleet Personnel manager, Euronav 
• Akis Zygouris, chemist / marine ropes advisor, Katradis
  

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Video of event

From start until mid-morning break

From mid-morning break to end

 

Topics  include:

• Reducing digital 'paperwork' onboard
• Slow steaming under CII / power limitation under EEXI - what are the implications?
• Managing crew working hours and time pressure
• Reducing enclosed space risks
• Making shipboard equipment more understandable
• SIRE 2.0
• Seafarer shortage
• Reducing the complexity of decarbonisation

Can we define a standard model for how to run an effective tanker operation in the 2020s? 

How can digital technology do more to help us, if people can be provided with the right information at the right time to make decisions?

 

AGENDA

8.30 Welcome coffee

9.15 Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping
Chairman's introduction

9.20 Martin Shaw, managing director, MOAMS and president, IMAREST
Challenges of the next ten years

• Time pressure on seafarers, the unrecognised human factor.
• Challenges of emission regulations and ballast water treatment
• Autonomous technology - supporting rather than attempting to replace the human 
• Where the seafarer fits into the future model
• The need to manage things that cannot be measured

9.50 Captain Panos Chatzikyriakos, HSQE director, Unitized Ocean Transport Ltd
Reducing digital 'paperwork' onboard

10.10 Capt. Leonid Zalenski Group Chief Operating Officer Columbia Shipmanagement
Perspectives on SIRE 2.0 - including basic principles and updates

10.30 - Reducing the complexity of decarbonisation 
Konstantinos Kyrou, Deputy DPA/CSO, HSQEE Officer, Capital Ship Management

10.50 Panel discussion - Making decarbonisation easier to manage
Leonidas Polemis, CEO, Empire Chemical Tankers
Konstantinos Kyrou, Deputy DPA/CSO, HSQEE Officer, Capital Ship Management

11.20 Note from our event sponsor - Akis Zygouris, chemist / marine ropes advisor, Katradis

11.30 Mid morning Break

12.00 Digitalisation and Smarter Maritime Operations
Theophanis Theophanous, Managing Director, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Hellas) 

12.20 Thoughts on the human element accumulated during my journey through various roles at sea and shore. Capt. Alexandros Serpanos, Fleet Personnel manager, Euronav 

12.40 Panel discussion - seafarer well being
Capt. Alexandros Serpanos, Fleet Personnel manager, Euronav
Theophanis Theophanous, Managing Director, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Hellas)
Captain Panos Chatzikyriakos, HSQE director, Unitized Ocean Transport Ltd

1.00 Panel discussion - experiences with SIRE 2.0. 
Capt. Leonid Zalenski Group Chief Operating Officer Columbia Shipmanagement
Martin Shaw, managing director, MOAMS and president, IMAREST

 

1.30 Lunch and close 

 

 

About our speakers

Martin Shaw

 

Martin Shaw is the Managing Director of Marine Operations and Assurance Management Solutions Ltd. . From March 2023 he is president of IMAREST,  the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. He has had 42 years of experience in the Shipping Industry, 23 of which were in management positions. His last role before setting up MOAMS was as Vice President Technology for an oil major shipping organisation, involving setting standards for fleet operations, provided marine support and standards for the entire group. He was awarded the UK Merchant Navy Medal for contribution to Maritime Safety in 2020

 

Alexandros Serpanos

I have been involved in the shipping industry since 1997 by joining the Hellenic Merchant MarineAcademy. I sailed as OS, AB, Deck Cadet, 3rd Officer, 2nd Officer, Chief Officer and Master on OBOand container ships, chemical and oil tankers of all sizes.I worked with multinational crew and gained ice and polar navigation experience onboard ships of Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises, Euronav Ship Management and Dynacom Tankers Management.From 2003 to 2007 I served at the Hellenic Coast Guard up to the rank of Lieutenant, as a commanding officer on patrol boats during numerous search/rescue and border control operations and as a Port State Control inspector.

From 2017 to 2022 I worked with Dynacom Tankers Management team based in Athens, initially as a Marine Superintendent, conducting internal audits and maintenance inspections of the Company’s fleet ships. While at the office I was involved in reviews/amendments of the SMS procedures and TMSA audits preparations.

In 2023 I joined Euronav Ship Management team in Athens, assuming the role of Fleet Personnel Manager with the objective to develop the Company’s strategy for the seafarers’ recruiting,learning/development and retention processes. Additionally, to overview the Company’s fleet manningprocess and coordinate crew department team members located in Greece, Belgium, France,Singapore and Panama.

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May 2019
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