19 October - 20 October
Hilton Rotterdam Hotel
ARACON: OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW?
ARACON is the longest-running and biggest bunkering conference in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region. Its no-nonsense conference programme attracts all the main bunker suppliers and barging companies in the ARA and Northwest Europe as well as dozens of European shipowners and managers.
Overview
Welcome Coffee
This session will set the scene for ARACON 2023 by focusing on the commercial, geopolitical and global trade drivers that are impacting shipping and the bunker industry. Following the market volatility caused by a global pandemic, ongoing geopolitical tensions, and current economic headwinds in many counties, what does business as usual look like for the bunker market in general – and the ARA market in particular?
Welcome to ARACON 2023
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Founder & CEO, Petrospot
Keynote Speech: Shipping Market Outlook
Mark Williams, Managing Director, Shipping Strategy Limited
Keynote Speech: The Bunker Industry Overview
Alexander Prokopakis, Executive Director, International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA)
This session will take a deep dive into European environmental regulation, including FuelEU Maritime, and on a global scale, CII and EEXI requirements. Speakers will also consider the outcomes of MEPC 80, including decisions on fuel life cycle assessments and the introduction of market-based measures. as well as the changes to be expected in the much-anticipated revision of the ISO 8217 commercial specification, due to be published in early 2024. There will also be a focus on the sanctions put in place following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact that they have had on the ARA market.
Moderator: Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot
Decarbonisation Challenge: the Pathway to 2050
Benedetta D’Amato, Project Engineer, RINA Marine Consulting
Compliance and Contracts
Harald Søndergaard, Partner, Hafnia Law Firm
MFA at ARACON
Anthony Mollet, Executive Officer, Marine Fuels Alliance
Bunkering in a Post-Sanctions World
Rowan Staden-Coats, Managing Editor, EMEA Residual Fuels, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Panel Discussion / Q&A
The bunker industry is said by many commentators to be on the cusp of change, but what does this mean in practice? Sanctions have forced the industry to look hard at its due diligence processes, and shipping’s decarbonisation will require new ways of working and new skill sets for traders and physical suppliers alike – and the ARA market will be a linchpin for the sale and purchase of new bunker fuels.
Geopolitical events pushed up the price of bunker fuel in 2022 and physical suppliers and traders posted bumper profits. However, current high interest rates will place a considerable burden on bunker companies borrowing money and offering credit to customers. Participants in this session will assess the credit landscape for the marine fuels sector.
Speakers will look at fuel quality trends and consider whether the ARA market really has begun to shed its reputation for short deliveries and fuel quality problems. This session will also introduce a key focus point for the bunkering and shipping sectors – the advent of digitalisation.
Moderator: Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Founder & CEO, Petrospot
Shipping in the EU ETS & Credit Aspects – A New Era
Anna-Maria Fotinou, Senior Credit Manager, Island Oil Holdings (Ltd)
Shipergy’s Voyage; from Ships’ Decks to Tech Specs
Lina Molfetas, Senior Trader, Shipergy
Fuel Quality – The Peaks and the Troughs
Tracy Wardell, Global Technical Manager, Intertek Lintec
Challenges Fuelling Change? The current quality landscape & what may lie ahead
Chris Turner, Manager, Bunker Quality and Claims, Integr8 Fuels Inc
Picking up on a very lively discussion about industry transparency at ARACON 2022, this session will ask whether the industry is becoming more supportive of the use of mass flow meters and digitalisation in bunker deliveries, and it will also update delegates on the plans by the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp-Bruges to mandate the use of mass flow meters.
The Introduction of MFM Systems at the Ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp-Bruges: An Update
Pieter Bruins Slot, Manager Team Policy, Legislation and Enforcement, Harbour Master’s Division, Port of Rotterdam
Laurens De Buck, Advisor, Harbour Master Affairs, Port of Antwerp-Bruges
Moderator: Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot
Kenneth Dam, Global Head of Bunkering, TFG Marine
Pablo Sansó, Head of Sales – EMEA, Minerva Bunkering
Compliance, Transparency & Efficiency
Daniel Kemp, Business Development Manager (Marine Fuel Solutions), Emerson Automation Solutions
Save Time and Money – Through Complete Digital Delivery
Martin Wold, Principal Consultant, DNV
Merten Traulsen, Head of Support Centre, Marine and Flow Solutions, Endress+Hauser
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Panellist:
Erwin Guerand, Business Development Director, Ascenz Marorka
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