20 October - 21 October
Hilton Rotterdam Hotel
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.
ARA22 Programme
The opening session of ARACON 2022 will take a close look at the health of – and outlook for – the ARA market. Has its bunker market experienced a full bounce back from the impact of COVID 19 on shipping operations? How is the ongoing crisis in Ukraine affecting product flows, fuel availability and quality? How are buyers and suppliers coping with the constraints on doing business with Russian counterparties. Has the introduction of a pilot bunker licensing scheme at the Port of Rotterdam served to bring more transparency in the market. And how might the ARA market evolve over the next 10-15 years?
Moderator Opening Remarks
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
ARA and the Tanker Freight Market Recovery
Mark Williams, Managing Director, Shipping Strategy Ltd
Michael Malamen, Global Commercial Manager, Board Member, PMG Holding
ARA Fuel Quality
Gunner Kjeldsen, Global Business Development Manager, Bureau Veritas VeriFuel
What the Industry Can Learn from Inland Navigation
Claudia Beumer, Global Account Manager, VT Group
CEO & Founder
ship.energy
Joint CEO, Shipping Innovation | Director, Maritime UK
Llewellyn began his career in the oil industry in 1980, working both as a journalist and as oil broker in London and New York, with Petroleum Argus, Eperon Petroleum, Albion Oil, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and OPEC Listener, before joining MRC Business Information Group in Oxford – which later became Lloyd’s List Intelligence after MRC’s acquisition by Informa – where he rose to Managing Director before leaving in May 2003 to establish Petrospot Ltd.
He is a Founding Member of the International Bunker Industry Association, which he helped create in 1993 and has organised conferences, seminars, training courses and multiple other events in 35 countries around the world and attended events as a journalist or conference speaker in a further dozen countries.
Llewellyn is co-creator, co-founder and co-owner of the biennial London International Shipping Week, whose first edition took place in September 2013 and has become one of the largest maritime events in the world.
Llewellyn was born in Abergavenny, Wales, in 1957 and lives in Oxfordshire.
This session will discuss the challenges for the bunker and shipping sectors in a time of significant price volatility. Speakers will discuss the credit landscape, risk mitigation options and the availability of credit insurance. Given the current complex and challenging geopolitical situation, the issues of sanctions, and compliance will also be closely examined. In today’s challenging commercial environment, this session will also examine recent trends in bunker disputes.
Moderator Opening Remarks
Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Publishing Director, Petrospot Ltd & ship.energy
KYC and Compliance in Wartime
Edgar Martin, Head, Infospectrum Central & Eastern Europe, Infrospectrum Ltd
Russian Sanctions in the Bunker Market
James Kennedy, Legal Director, Preston Turnbull LLP
Improving Compliance Standards in the Bunker Industry
Paul Millar, Credit Manager, Hartree Marine Fuels LLC
Bunker Claims on the Rise – “A Lawyers Paradise?”
Cherry Almeida, Partner, Caland Advocaten
There are many initiatives underway to make bunkering processes more transparent and vessel operations more efficient. This session will discuss how harnessing the power of data can achieve significant results in bunker procurement and planning, vessel optimisation, fuel consumption and GHG emission reductions. Digitalisation can also streamline operations and bring transparency to the bunker delivery itself.
Moderator Opening Remarks
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
Harnessing Digitalisation to Lower the Total Cost of Bunkers
Tyler Baron, CEO, Minerva Bunkering
Daniel Kemp, Business Development Manager (Marine Fuel Solutions) Emerson Automation Solutions
How Harnessing Data Empowers the Shipping Industry to Optimise for Profit and Planet
Kenneth Juhls, Managing Director, ZeroNorth Bunker, ClearLynx, a ZeroNorth Company
Moderator Opening Remarks
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
Panellists:
Tyler Baron, CEO, Minerva Bunkering
Daniel Kemp, Business Development Manager (Marine Fuel Solutions) at Emerson Automation Solutions Kenneth Juhls, Managing Director, ZeroNorth Bunker, ClearLynx, a ZeroNorth Company
Kenneth Dam, Global Head of Bunkering, TFG Marine
Armelle Breneol, Marine Fuels Technical Advisor, ExxonMobil Product Solutions – Energy Products
Speakers will take a ‘deep dive’ into the marine fuel pool to consider recent trends in fuel characteristics – in the ARA market and at other global bunker hubs. In the light of the HSFO contamination problems in Singapore earlier in the year, fuel experts will consider best practice in fuel storage and sampling, as well as developments in fuel testing. The session will also look at whether the practice of short delivery is still endemic in the bunker sector. In terms of fuel quality and quantity, can bunker buyers be any more confident that they are getting what they pay for?
Moderator Opening Remarks
Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Publishing Director, Petrospot Ltd & ship.energy
Off Limits
Steve Bee, Group Commercial Director, VPS
Fuel Quality – the Challenges Continue
Michael Atkinson, Customer Services Supervisor, Intertek Lintec
Marine Fuel Quality and Quantity Trends
Armelle Breneol, Marine Fuels Technical Advisor, ExxonMobil Product Solutions – Energy Products
Panellist:
Nigel Draffin, Consultant Lecturer and Author
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