EVENTS
BV Hellenic and Black Sea Committee meets in Lagonissi SEMEA Zone, Lambros A. Chahalis - Vice President Regional Chief Executive Hellenic & Black Sea Region, Dr. John Kokarakis- Technology & Business Development Director Marine & Offshore Division, Anastasios Angelopoulos - Marine Chief Executive, Paillette Palaiologou - Director Marine Sales & Marketing Marine & Offshore Division, Philippe Boisson - Communication Director, Nicos Attas - Marine Chief Executive of Cyprus, Michael Sterghiou Director SE Europe Bureau Veritas Commodities, Yordan Minkov - Marine Manager BV Varna, and George Andreadis - Marine Center Manager. This year the Committee event took place at the Grand Resort Lagonissi in Athens. Didier Bouttier, Capt. Panagiotis N. Tsakos, George Procopiou, Philippe DoncheFollowing the welcome and adoption of the Gay, George Dalacouras, Lambros A. Chahalis agenda by the Committee’s Chairman, George ProThe 19th annual meeting of the Hellenic and Black copiou, three distinguished colleagues of shipping Sea Committee of Bureau Veritas was held on May were accepted as new members. They were Michael 2016, under the Chairmanship of George Procopiou – Bodouroglou, Chairman of Allseas Marine, Dimitris CEO of Dynacom and the presence of the Bureau VeriPatrikios, General Manager of Springfield Shipping Co. tas Top Management, namely Philippe Donche-Gay and Svetlin Stoyanov, Executive Director of MTG-DolPresident Marine & Offshore Division, Didier Bouttier phin PLC in Bulgaria. Senior Vice President Marine & Offshore Division Philippe Donche-Gay opened the round of presentations with a critical review on the Bureau Veritas Group’s Corporate Activities and Results for 2015 and on the strategic plan 2015-2020. Mr. Donche-Gay pointed out also the importance of the Digital Transformation which will further assist the job of surveyors on board the vessel. He was followed by a presentation on Shipping & Shipbuilding markets for 2016 by Nicos Ritsos, Managing Partner of BRS, resulting to an interesting exchange of views. The presentation by Dr. John Kokarakis, G. Procopiou, E. Procopiou P. Palaiologou, A. L. Polemis, L.A. Chahalis
L.A. Chahalis, G. Dalacouras, A. L. Polemis, M. Bodouroglou, D. Condylis 16 SHIPPING JUNE 2016
(l to r) J. Dragnis, J. Kokarakis, C. Diamantis, A. Angelopoulos, D. Condylis