04 October - 06 October
Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort, Florida
Maritime Week Americas 2022 returns to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a range of key maritime activities including the MWA Conference, a tour of Port Everglades, a boat tour of Fort Lauderdale’s famous waterways, and some of the best networking in the bunker industry. Join us in October to see why MWA remains the most popular bunkering conference in the Americas.
MWA22 Programme
The MWA Conference pass includes an optional visit to Port Everglades (Tuesday 4 October) and an optional Networking Boat Trip on Fort Lauderdale’s beautiful Intracoastal Waterway (Thursday 6 October).
Please note: Both trips are open to all conference delegates, but places may be limited. In order to secure your place please email [email protected].
Programme details are updated regularly and are subject to change as new speakers are confirmed and themes developed.
If you feel you could make a significant contribution to the programme, please email Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes at [email protected] or call +44 1295 814455 to discuss this further.
This session will introduce Port Everglades, one of the busiest and most dynamic ports in North America. It will examine shipping and bunker markets as the post-Covid recovery picks up pace.
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
Welcome to Port Everglades
Jonathan Daniels, CEO and Port Director, Port Everglades
Shipping Overview
Barbara Troner, Senior Managing Editor – Americas Freight Markets, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Keynote
James Stapleton, Vice President, Global Marine, Parkland Marine
Panel Discussion / Q&A
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 look at the challenges with fuel supply and fuel quality issues in the Americas.
Moderator: Lesley Bankes-Hughes, Publishing Director, Petrospot Ltd & ship.energy
Bunker Quality Update
Hauk Larsen Wahl, Business Development Manager, Intertek Lintec
Resolving Fuel Quality Issues
Jack Grogan, Account Manager, Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS)
When Things Go Wrong
Wajdi Abdmessih, Founder & President, Seahawk Services
Navigating Endemic Issues
Rob Leventhal, Business Development Manager Americas, Marine Fuel Services, Bureau Veritas
The Bunker Buyer’s Perspective
Lory Urdaneta, Fuel Procurement Manager, Global Fuel Sourcing and Operations, RCCL
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.
This session will look at commercial transparency in bunkering, from credit and finance, to pricing and risk management. It will also look at sanctions and compliance issues, and will examine the role of digitalisation and electronic documentation.
Moderator: Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
Bunker Pricing
Tom Sosnowski, Associate Director, Global Marine Fuels, OPIS
Ship Arrest
Alan Swimmer, Co-Owner, National Maritime Service
Legal Issues
Adolfo Jimenez, Partner, Holland and Knight LLP
E-BDNs and other Electronic Documentation
Jeff Mildner, Founder, Vortex Development Group
Risk Management and Digitalisation
Darren Shelton, Chief product Officer / Co-Founder, FuelTrust
Panel Discussion / Q&A
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 look at developments in key bunker markets throughout the Americas, assessing fuel availability and supply infrastructure as well as progress towards establishing supply chains for cleaner fuels.
Moderator: Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
Caribbean
Jinelle Spagnuolo-Walker, Business Development Manager / Trader, Parkland Marine
Canada
Marc Gawthrop, Managing Director, Arbutus Point Marine Ltd
South America
Sara Brady, Team Leader, Senior Broker & Trader, Dan-Bunkering (Connecticut) LLC
Panel Discussion / Q&A
Lory Urdaneta, Fuel Procurement Manager, Global Fuel Sourcing and Operations, RCCL
Michael McNamara, Vice President Global Fuel Supply, Carnival Corporation
Eric Evans, Evans Advisory LLC
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.
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