23 May - 27 May
Hilton Panama
Maritime Week Americas 2022 returns to Panama. The week-long series of key maritime events, includes the MWA Conference – the largest and most popular bunkering conference in the Americas – plus bunker training courses, a maritime services exhibition and some exhilarating Latin American-themed networking.
MWA22 Programme
Wednesday 25 – Thursday 26 May 2022
Chaos in world shipping and bunker markets follows hot on the heels of the economic devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Disrupted global supply chains, runaway oil prices and container freight rates, major port congestion and international sanctions currently pose a unique set of problems. But despite these huge challenges, the strategically important shipping and bunkering sectors have had no option but to work throughout this difficult period. This conference will look at how markets might recover and at some of the new challenges that now lie ahead.
Programme details are updated regularly and are subject to change as new speakers are confirmed and themes developed.
Welcome Coffee & Exhibition Opens
Welcome to Panama. This session will look at changes and challenges in the global bunkering business, the impact of Covid-19 on shipping and sustaining trade in a disrupted world.
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
Welcome Address
Tim Stew MBE, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, British Embassy
Coping with Covid-19: the impact of the world’s largest fleet
Rafael Cigarruista, Director General of Merchant Marine, Autoridad Maritima de Panama
Keynote: Recovery Position
Peter Zachariassen, CEO, Bunker One
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 oil and bunker price volatility and how this has affected global and regional markets. It will also look at the impact of international sanctions on trading activity, followed by a bunker supplier panel.
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Adrian Tolson, Director and Lead, Blue Insight
Oil and bunker market volatility
Elizabeth Brown, Associate Editorial Director, Americas Crude, Fuel Oil and Bunkers, S&P Global Platts (Commodity Insights)
Sanctions and other global complexities
J. Stephen Simms, Partner, Simms Showers LLP
Panel Discussion:
Nicolás Vukelja, President, Terramar; Former President, Camara Maritima de Panama
Capt. Christopher Roberts, Head of Sales, Minerva Bunkering
Presentation:
Fr Ian Hutchinson-Cervantes, Regional Director for Latin América and Port Chaplain in Panamá, The Mission to Seafarers
This session will look at specific markets in the Americas, focusing on recovery and renewal in the wake of unprecedented disruption.
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Adrian Tolson, Director and Lead, Blue Insight
US Gulf
Carlos Gilberto Torres Padilla, Global Head Of Physical, Bunker One USA
Panama
Javier E. Ortiz, Corporate Consultant, Decal Panama S.A.
The importance of Panama as a storage hub for the Americas
Carls Von Lindeman, Coordinator of the Bunkering Commission, Panama Maritime Chamber
Colombia
Eugenia Benavides, Marine Fuels Director, Organización Terpel S.A.
Chile
María José Ruiz, Bunker Manager, Ultranav
Panel Discussion / Q&A
This panel discussion will examine some of the major issues of the day, from the perspective of women in the industry.
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Managing Director, Petrospot Ltd
Eugenia Benavides, Marine Fuels Director, Organización Terpel S.A.
Ilya R. Espino de Marotta, Panama Canal Deputy Administrator, Canal de Panama
Tammi Ingannamorte, Vice President of Sales, ClearLynx – a ZeroNorth Company
Claudia Beumer, Global Account Manager, VT Group
Leonor Mondragón López, CEO, Navalmex Combustibles S.A. de C.V.
María José Ruiz, Bunker Manager, Ultranav
Verónica Jahaira Simisterra, Vessel Operator, FLOPEC
Emilce Iglesias, Senior Bunker Trader, Minerva Bunkering
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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