08 March - 10 March
Hilton Dubai Jumeirah, UAE
Now in its seventh year, the Middle East Bunkering Convention (MEBC) has built a strong reputation for the quality and scope of debate it provides on the key issues and challenges facing the marine fuels sector and wider shipping industry
MEBC22 Programme
Wednesday 9 – Thursday 10 March ~ One and a half-day Conference
The one and a half-day conference will combine hard-hitting and absorbing intellectual content. It is aimed at shipowners and operators, bunker supplies and traders, surveyors, agents, maritime lawyers and related service industries.
Programme details are subject to change as new speakers are confirmed.
Main Conference Location: Almas Ballroom
Standard Pass: £750
Always popular at MEBC, in this session legal experts give their full attention to issues and questions relating to bunker terms and conditions, charterparties, arbitration, compliance and regulatory enforcement. They will also consider some of the legal implications in relation to the use of alternative fuels.
Chairs Opening Remarks
Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Director of Publishing/Executive Editor, Bunkerspot/Petrospot
Claims Prevention: Lessons Learned
Natalie Jensen, Partner, Ince
Bunkering in 2022 – Current Legal Issues
James Kennedy, Legal Director, Preston Turnbull
Sanctions and Bunker Contracts
Mark Lakin, Partner, Stephenson Harwood
Panel Discussion / Q&A
Managing Director
ship.energy
Lesley Bankes-Hughes is a highly experienced editor, news journalist and features writer. After a number of years as business editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly, she worked for the International Stock Exchange and Euromoney Publications. She also established a specialist newsletter covering European corporate mergers and acquisitions, and later spent several years at Christ Church, University of Oxford, with responsibility for developing educational outreach projects.
Partner
Preston Turnbull
James specialises in shipping, international trade, and insurance disputes, and is a go-to person in the market for bunker disputes and is recommended by his peers as “Mr. Bunkers”.
James qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and has a reputation as a strong technical shipping lawyer. James has an astute commercial understanding of shipping and international trade disputes particularly from his secondments to a major international insurance company and one of the world’s leading commodities traders. He acts for clients throughout the marine industry including insurers, ship owners, charterers, traders and bunker suppliers. James has a broad range of shipping and international trade expertise and is recognised as having real gravitas and credibility in this sector.
James has represented clients in numerous LMAA, LCIA, ICC and ad hoc arbitrations.
James was appointed as a member and legal advisor to the BIMCO sub-committee on the revision of the Bimco Bunker Terms.
Partner
Stephenson Harwood Middle East LLP
Mark is a senior litigator and partner in the firm’s Dubai office. He has a broad range of commercial litigation and arbitration experience, with specialist expertise in the maritime and commodities sectors.
Mark has played a pivotal role in developing the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice in the Middle East. He acts for large trading houses, shipping companies, financial institutions, and major oil and gas companies who are located both in the region and internationally.
He is a skilled litigator and solicitor advocate who advises on all forms of dispute resolution and represents clients as counsel in both Court and arbitration proceedings. Recent cases include major frauds, commodities disputes and oil and gas disputes worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mark has led numerous significant cases before various international arbitral tribunals, including LCIA, DIAC, LMAA, ICC, UNCITRAL, GAFTA, FOSFA, SIAC, and HKIAC. He has also represented clients in prominent cases before the DIFC and UAE Courts, and the English High Court, many of which have received extensive coverage in the trade and legal press.
Mark is listed as a “Leading Individual” for Shipping: Dispute Resolution by Chambers and Partners Global 2024 and a “Next Generation Partner” for Shipping within the Legal 500 EMEA 2024 Guide, UAE. In addition, he is listed as “Recommended Lawyer” for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and International Litigation within the Legal 500 EMEA 2024 Guide, UAE.
Clients praise him as being a “a shrewd litigator with excellent knowledge of the market” who is a “savvy and skilled operator” that provides “out of the box solutions.” Clients also value his ability to combine “excellent commercial instincts along with an in-depth knowledge of the law” as well as understanding “legal issues and thinking around the matter from a strategic point of view”.
MEBC 2022 will be brought to a close with a leadership panel featuring senior bunker and maritime executives. They will offer their thoughts on the issues covered during the conference sessions, and will also give their perspectives on the future evolution of the bunker sector as it adapts to a post-COVID 19 future and meets the challenges of the IMO’s 2030 and 2050 decarbonisation targets.
Chairs Opening Remarks
Adrian Tolson, Director, Blue Insight Lead
Morten Langthjem – MD, Glander International Bunkering
Capt. Rahul Choudhuri – Managing Director – Asia, ME & Africa, VPS
Georgios Plevrakis – Vice President of Global Sustainability, ABS
Mads Bjørnebye – Manager, Bunker Services, Teekay
All registered training course and MEBC Conference delegates are invited to join an exclusive tour of Jebel Ali, DP World’s flagship port, which is not only one of the world’s top ten but also the biggest and by far the busiest port in the Middle East.
More details of the tour will be made available closer to the event.
Delegates are invited to register their interest in joining the tour but should be aware that the itinerary could be subject to change, or the tour could be cancelled at short notice depending on COVID-19 restrictions that are in force within the port area at the time.
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