Aracon 2021

30 September - 01 October

Hilton Rotterdam Hotel

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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.

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Aracon21 Programme

Aracon 2021 – Programme

30 September – 1 October

Standard Delegate Rate: €1,095

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9:30 am - 10:30 am

Session Five: The bunker deal – fuel buyers have their say

Bunker buyers will come together in this session to discuss fuel issues and trends from the ‘ship side’. The conversation will cover fuel availability and fuel quality, short delivery, onboard fuel handling, the digitalisation of bunker delivery documentation, the impact of the pandemic on bunkering operations and, looking ahead, the plans that are being put in place to address shipping’s energy transition.

Moderator:

Mark Williams, Managing Director, Shipping Strategy Ltd

Panelists:

Mads Bjornebye, Manager, Bunker Services, Teekay Tankers

Leon van Duivendijk, Director Shared Resources, Vroon

Hans Staal, Director, Fuel Supply, Unifeeder

Q&A

Networking Coffee Break

TBC

Session Six: The shock of the new – shipping’s decarbonisation

The ARA region is a hub of innovation in terms of shipping’s energy transition. This session will focus on the supply infrastructure that is in place – or is building – for the raft of alternative fuels that will be available to shipping. It will look at the key role that ports are playing in support of shipping’s decarbonisation and it will also take a ‘deep dive’ into what the EC’s ‘Fit for 55’ basket of measures may mean for the shipping and bunker industries. What will the ‘brave new world’ of emissions trading and marine fuel taxation really look like?

Moderator:

Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Director of Publishing/Executive Editor, Bunkerspot/Petrospot

Panelists:

Grégoire Hartig, Business Development, Gasum

Sjaak Klap, Principal Environmental Advisor, SGMF

Michael Schaap, Commercial Director Marine, Titan LNG

Michael Van Lieshout, Sustainable Transition Expert, Port of Antwerp

Patrick Verhoeven, Managing Director, International Association of Ports and Harbors

Q&A

Closing Remarks

Closing Lunch