Distinguished Lecture Series 2009

Distinguished Lecture Series 2009

Programme

Title Speaker Date

International organisations in shipping

Peter Grube / Grant Hunter

Manager, Courses, PR and Events, BIMCO

3-Dec-08

Incentives: Will they motivate shipowners to be frontrunners in the industry?

Jan Fransen

Managing Director, Green Award Foundation

27-Jan-09

Introduction to Port State Control: Background, procedures and inspections

Ivo Snijders

Deputy Secretary, Paris MoU on Port State Control

27-Jan-09

Rotterdam: Marketing from content; a joint effort?

Mai Elmar

Chief Marketing Officer, City of Rotterdam

10-Feb-09

Environmental challenges for global shipping

Tony Mason

Secretary General, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Shipping Federation (ISF)

19-Feb-09

The Challenges of dry bulk terminals

Dick van Doorn

CEO, Europees Massagoed-Overslagbedrijf (EMO)

3-Mar-09

Good times, bad times: Challenging the container downturn

Jan Westerhoud

President, Europe Container Terminals (ECT)

10-Mar-09

Rotterdam Challenges...

André Toet

Chief Operating Officer (COO), Port of Rotterdam

11-Mar-09

Trends in container shipping amidst general economic recession

Albert Thissen

Managing Director, Hapag-Lloyd NL

17-Mar-09

The dos and don'ts of Board meetings

Frans de Koning

Member of the Executive Board, Royal Vopak

1-Apr-09

The future of transport, an EU exercise of stakeholder consultation

Marco Sorgetti

Director General, Clecat: the European Freight Forwarders and Customs Agents Association

7-Apr-09

What will happen next?

Chris Bourne / Kate Townsend

Executive/Deputy Directors, European Liner Affairs Association

7-Apr-09

Is there still "no business like terminal business"?

John Verschelden

CEO, APM Terminals Rotterdam

9-Apr-09

The role of shippers in global supply chains

Ferdinand Kranenburg

Secretary, Dutch Shippers' Council, EVO

27-Apr-09

Demand and supply in liner shipping: the mutual relationships between transport costs, shipping connectivity and the geography of trade

Jan Hoffmann

Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

1-May-09

Vopak: from overflow to supply chain integrated

John Paul Broeders

Chairman of the Executive Board, Royal VOPAK

12-May-09

Salvage: A Dutch global business

Ben Vree

Chairman of the Executive Board, SMIT International

27-May-09

World Shipbuilding: brace, brace...

René Berkvens

CEO, Damen Shipyards Group

29-May-09