24 October - 25 October
Hilton Rotterdam Hotel
As a global industry, bunkering is impacted on a daily basis by a vast range of issues, stemming from global changes and also regional trends. These include geopolitics, trading patterns, supply and demand challenges, fuel quality, commercial and operational factors, regulation and legislation, and, increasingly, technological developments.
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For shipping, new environmental regulations are becoming a reality rather than a ‘may happen’. The industry is now involved in the early implementation phases of European environmental regulations, such as the EU Emissions Trading System and FuelEU Maritime, and discussions at the IMO are also focusing on further concrete steps that can be taken to reduce shipping’s emissions. This session will consider the ‘carrot or stick’ approach to regulation with speakers who will stress test the IMO’s CII requirement and discuss potential market outcomes for shipping and bunkering as a result of new EU regulations, the likelihood of global market-based measures, and how maritime stakeholders should negotiate the new contractual landscape as a result of regulation changes. Also, in an increasingly complicated commercial and contractual environment, the bunker industry must be constantly aware of risk factors. This session will conclude with a look at how ‘risk’ should be reevaluated and reframed across the board.
Welcome to ARACON 2024
Moderator:
Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, ship.energy
Biofuel Bunkering: How to price biofuels in 2025 and how to prove their sustainability
Erik Hoffmann, Managing Editor, ENGINE
Game changing regulations: How to get a better nights sleep
Maria Skipper Schwenn, Director of Environmental Regulatory and Public Affairs, Group Commercial, Bunker Holding
The pooling opportunity within FuelEU Maritime Regulations
Jacob Granqvist, Vice President, Maritime, Gasum
Bunker Risks
Kieran Michael C. Brown, Group Credit Risk Manager, Island Oil (Holdings) Ltd
FuelEU Maritime: Pooling – Whos and Hows
Max Schroer, Co-founder, Bettersea
Speakers will consider what the changes in the new iteration of ISO:8217 mean for shipping and bunkering. They will also look at global trends in fuel quality and what we have seen in terms of fuel contamination issues over the past year. As biofuel blends increasingly enter the marine fuel supply chain, the issue of quality, provenance and certification will also be addressed, and fuel testing agencies will also look at advances in marine fuel testing. Speakers will also look at the buying patterns for HSFO, MGO and VLSFO in recent months, as well as pricing fluctuations, and potential future market demand for these fuel grades.
Moderator:
Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, ship.energy
Biofuels Emissions
Gunnar Kjeldsen, Biofuels Development Manager, Bunker Holding
Argyrios Schoinas, Global Operations & Key Account Manager, VeriFuel – Bureau Veritas
Tracy – Global Fuel Quality Trends
Tracy Wardell, Global Technical Manager, Intertek Lintec
This session is at the heart of ARACON. Speakers will address the core subject of fuel quality and the perennial issue of transparency and fuel quantity in the ARA market, as well as the changes in demand in ARA ports as a result of geopolitical events and sanctions. They will also look at how the fuel supply landscape has changed over the past 12 months in terms of market players and market dynamics. How is this key bunkering ‘hub’ looking to position itself as the energy transition gains momentum and are the ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp broadly on the same page as they look to the future?
Moderator:
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, CEO & Founder, ship.energy
Navigating conflict: Bunker markets in the wake of Middle East tensions
Rowan Staden-Coats, Managing Editor, EMEA Residual Fuels, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Fuely waste, by Nature
Jacob Bac, Managing Director, Nature Group
Energy Transition from an ARA Bunkering Perspective
Christian Kint, CEO, Oilchart International
The Impact of Q&Q on Fuel Management in ARA
Martin Speksnijder, Regional Manager Surveys – ARA region, Viswa Group
While shipowners will largely dictate the pace of decarbonisation through their ‘drop in’ fuel choices and new vessel orders, the marine fuels sector really is the linchpin in the delivery of the energy transition – it has to be ready to supply the new fuels when the market demands them.
Speakers in this session will discuss how the marine fuels sector is already stepping up to the mark in terms of biofuel, LNG and methanol supply, and look at what factors such as ISCC and mass balancing mean for maritime stakeholders. The technologies available to reduce fuel consumption will also be reviewed, while the efforts of ports to support shipping’s new fuels’ supply infrastructure will also be highlighted.
Moderator:
Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, ship.energy
Evolution of port ecosystems required for maritime decarbonization
Naomi van den Berg, Program Manager, Sustainable Transport, Port of Rotterdam
New Frontiers: Delivering on Decarbonisation via Biofuels & Methanol
Steve Bee, Group Commercial & Business Development Director, VPS
Michael Schaap, Commercial Director, Titan
Johannes Schürmann, Commercial Director, FincoEnergies
Decarbonisation – the future fuel engine road map and carbon reduction technologies
Frank Harteveld, General Manager Sales & Strategic Development, Fuel Gas Supply Systems, Wärtsilä
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