14th Mare Forum Shipfinance 2014

Shipowners vs. Capital Providers - Wednesday 15 October 2014 - Hilton Hotel Rotterdam - Rotterdam - The Netherlands. The 14th Mare Forum Shipfinance will once again gather an impressive number of leading Dutch and international shipowners, CEOs from shipping, bankers, lawyers, key investors in
shipping, financial institutions, trading and brokerage companies, consultants and entrepreneurs, classification societies, regulators, the media and other members of the international maritime community will all again take an active part at this prestigious conference, in order to network, learn, discuss and debate all contemporary and urgent themes in ship-finance and ship-investments The 13 previous Mare Forum Ship Finance forms have been bristling with ideas and dynamic debate. A very high level audience appreciates and makes the most of the dynamic format and honest debate. If you are an owner having trouble finding a good capital provider, come to Mare Forum, here they are. If you are a capital provider having trouble finding a good owner, come to Mare Forum and meet them. Among the speakers and discussion panelists are: Gust Biesbroeck Head of Transportation, ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Remco Steger Director Shipping, ING Bank Jannis Kostoulas President, Mare Forum Tineke Netelenbos President, Royal Association of Netherlands’ Shipowners (t.b.c.) Ugo Salerno President and CEO, RINA Coco Vroon Managing Director, Vroon B.V. Joe Cox President, American Chamber of Shipping Pieter Baan Deputy Director, Shipping, Transport, Logistics & Harbour, Rotterdam, ING Bank Khamis Juma Buamim Chairman Drydocks World & Maritime World, Dubai Anil Sharma President, GMS Philip Embiricos Past President, BIMCO Robert Lorenz-Meyer President Ernst Russ GmbH & Co. KG and Past President BIMCO Phrixos Papachristidis CEO, Hellespont Ship Management GmbH & Co. KG Christian Garin Vice Chairman, Sea Tankers and Past President, French Shipowners’ Association Michel Fransen CFO, Spliethof Michael Bodouroglou Chairman & CEO, Paragon Shipping Inc. (t.b.c.) John Su Managing Director & CEO, Erasmus Shipinvest B.V. George Tsavliris Principal, Tsavliris Salvage Group and Chairman INTERMEPA Maarten Leen Senior Economist, ING Rotterdam Wilhelm Magelssen Shipping, Offshore & Energy Group, Pareto Project Finance AS, Norway Modi Mano Managing Director, M Sea Capital Ltd. Laurent Bozzoni Director, SOCATRA, France Guy Verberne Chief Analyst PGGM, The Netherlands Christian von Oldershausen Vice President, DNV GL Marco Albers Head of Transport & Export Finance Managing Director, DekaBank, Germany Brian Ladin Director, Delos, USA (t.b.c.) Fabrizio Vettosi Managing Director, Venice Shipping and Logistics S.p.A., Investment & Advisory Sander Scheepens Managing Director, Deputy Global Head Shipping Finance, Standard Chartered Bank John Hartigan Senior Investment Manager, Northern Fund Management Janos Koenig Managing Director, Eurofin Sander Schakelaar Director, JR Shipping Apostolos Poulovassilis Regional Marine Manager, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Lloyd’s Register Willem Slendebroek MSc Senior Port and Shipping Consultant, Dynamar B.V. Massimo Volta Director Area Benelux, Baltic & Scandinavia, RINA Foteini Kanellopoulou Senior Analyst (Market Analysis), Clarksons Shell Representative, LNG Bunkering Rotterdam Port representative on LNG Bunkering Taco van der Valk President, Dutch Maritime and Transport Law Association and Lawyer AKD Richard Greiner Partner, Moore Stephens LLP Bote de Vries Managing Director, Finamar Joep Gorgels Country Executive Norway, ABN AMRO Bank Enrico Paglia Research Manager, Banchero-Costa & Co. SpA Pino Spadafora Area Manager Benelux, Baltic & Scandinavia, RINA Nienke Blans Head Transportation South Europe, ABN AMRO Bank Erkam Yildirim President, Zealand Shipping B.V. Maurizio D’Amico Director, D’Amico Società di Navigazione SpA Bart Otto Managing Director, Flinter (t.b.c.) Francesco Moneta Lazard (t.b.c.) Johan Wagelaar Partner, Bloem Doze Nienhuis (invited) Jan Valkier Managing Director, Anthony Veder Group (t.b.c.) George Xiradakis Managing Director, XRTC Business Consultants Ltd.(t.b.c.) George Gourdomichalis CEO, Bluewall Shipping Limited (t.b.c.) Geert Dokter CEO, Fosite Marin more to be announced…