SEA TRANSPORT strong balance sheet and common sense,” the Group celebrated its 60th Anniversary earlier this year. Frangou responded to the award “It’s very nice to win this Seatrade Personality Award, but I’m just a face to this award. This award belongs to my management team and it is only proper that I thank them and accept the award on their behalf.”
produce. Other awards made on the night were: SAFETY AT SEA Award sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Winner: Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme Award collected by Dr Peter Swift, Chairman
SEATRADE YOUNG PERSON IN SHIPPING Winner: Mr Emanuele A. Lauro, Chairman, Director & CEO, Scorpio Bulkers Inc. Accepted on his behalf by Mr Roberto Giorgi, President, V.Ships. CLEAN SHIPPING Chris Hayman, Chairman, Seatrade, said “Aged just 35, Mr Lauro of Monaco Award sponsored by ABS based Scorpio, has come a long way in a very short time. Winner: International Paint Ltd Award collected by Mr Trevor Solomon, InterAfter graduating from the European Business School here in London, he served sleek Business Manager an apprenticeship with his family’s shipping firm, before taking over the reins from his grandfather in 2003. At that time the company owned just three ships, INNOVATION IN SHIP OPERATIONS which Mr Lauro started augmenting with a fleet of chartered-in tonnage. Award sponsored by Arab Shipbuilding & But it was after the global economic crisis and subsequent collapse of new Repair Yard – ASRY ship prices that he made his big move. A tanker unit was launched with a Winner: Subsea Industries $150m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in Spring 2010, and the group Award collected Mr David Phillips, Hydrex embarked on a massive newbuilding spree. Group Communications Executive, Editor for Forays into gas carriers and a bulk shipping have since followed, financed by a series of further New York listings. In all the group has placed orders for some 160 ships worth over $6bn since 2011, making it probably the world’s fastest growing shipping business Roberto Giorgi, president of V.Ships and a Scorpio board member, accepted the award on his behalf.
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INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE Winner: SVITZER A/S Award collected by Mr Philipp Knebel, Head of Business Development, SVITZER Middle East Ltd. IMO THEMED AWARD “IMO Conventions: Effective Implementation” Koji Sekimizu, Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization (IMO), Award sponsored by China Classifications Society said in his summary address, “Over the last 27 years, Seatrade Awards have been supported by successive IMO Secretary General’s - C P Srivastava, Winner: International Association of Classification Societies. William O’Neil, Efthimios Mitropoulos and myself. This is an important Award accepted on their behalf by Mr Roberto Cazzulo, Chairman, IACS. mechanism for the shipping industry and also for International Maritime Organization. The vision is to raise the profile of international shipping and There are many stakeholders involved in the effective implementation of the over that time we have seen significant encouragement and as far as IMO is requirements in IMO Conventions. However, the winner of this award has been concerned while I am Secretary General, we will continue to support this very chosen because of the key role it plays in the effective, uniform and global important activity” implementation of IMO instruments. The association has been recognised for making a unique contribution to maritime safety and regulation through compliance verification and technical support. Its members issue statutory certificates to ships acting on behalf of governments who are the signatories to such IMO Conventions as SOLAS, MARPOL and Load Line. Consequently, the association has been uniquely placed for the last 45 years to provide feedback and technical advice to the regulators who attend IMO meetings. SEATRADE AWARD FOR COUNTERING PIRACY Award sponsored by DP World Winner: Joint Maritime Industry Project Partners: Shell, BP, Maersk, Stena and the Japanese shipping companies NYK, MOL and “K” Line Award accepted by: Dr Grahaeme Henderson, Vice President Shipping & Maritime, Shell International Trading & Shipping Company Ltd.
Surprise Charity Donation In a very generous gesture, His Excellency Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Chairman of ASRY, took the opportunity of presenting Koji Sekimizu, Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization, with a donation for the International Search and Rescue (SAR) Trust Fund – the Fund supports developing countries establish/improve maritime SAR capabilities to locate and rescue persons at sea, including seafarers, fishermen, passengers, recreational sailors. His Excellency said, “We at ASRY, as the leading shipyard in the Arabian Gulf, are dedicated to the security and safety of all seafarers. We want to do all that we can to make the seas as safe and secure as possible and hope that our contribution and ongoing support will help to reduce the risks involved in seafaring, and help the delivery of priority activities and projects on maritime search and rescue”.
In keeping with the non-profit making motives of the Seatrade Awards scheme, With a goal to address the problem at its core, the Joint Maritime Industry Seatrade also make a donation from the proceeds to the Royal National Project was initiated by Shell in 2013 to support capacity building projects Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and The Mission to Seafarers. in piracy hot spots in Somalia. The project, which brings together Shell, BP, Maersk, Stena and the Japanese shipping companies NYK, MOL and “K” Line, Source :seatrade-awards.com has pledged a total of $2.5 million to fund the “Alternative Livelihoods to Piracy in Puntland and Central Regions of Somalia Project.” This project aims to strengthen community resilience against piracy through a range of activities intended to stimulate local economic development, support entrepreneurship and create jobs, particularly for vulnerable youth in the areas where piracy is prevalent. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) scoped and is now implementing the project. A recent highlight includes the expansion of the local market in Adado – a busy town in central Somalia – that provides new employment for retailers and improves opportunity for farmers to sell their www.indonesialogisticsonline.com | vol. 18 | I. XVIII | APRIL - MAY 2014
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