Maritime Week Americas 2024

20 May - 24 May

Hilton Panama

Maritime Week Americas 2024 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.

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MWA24 Programme

8:00 am

Welcome Coffee & Exhibition Opens

Silver Sponsor

9:00 am

S&P Global Commodity Insights Seminar

09:00

Welcome Remarks / Introduction of Mark Esposito
Patrick Burns, Managing Editor, US Dirty Petroleum Products, S&P Global Commodity Insights

09:20

Seaborne trade disruptions: Panama Canal, Red Sea turmoil and the effect on oil flows

Impact of Panama Canal congestion on seaborne crude and refined product imports/exports
Rerouted tanker vessels following the Red Sea instability and ramifications on global bunkering hubs
Freight rate outlook

Mark Esposito, Sr. Principal Research Analyst, S&P Global Commodity Insights

09:40

Introduction to Platts Base Rates

Assessment methodology
Integration of alternative fuels into the calculation of Base Rates

Angelica Rauch, Research Manager, Shipping Market

10:00

Analysis and Forward Pricing of Fuels/Bunker Resources, Marine
Phillipe Craig, Analyst, Price Assessment and Pricing, S&P Global Commodity Insights

10:15

Q&A

10:25

Closing Remarks
Patrick Burns, Managing Editor, US Dirty Petroleum Products, S&P Global Commodity Insights

10:30 am

Networking Coffee Break

Silver Sponsor

11:00 am

SESSION SEVEN: IBIA LEADERSHIP PANEL

This session brings together a range of experts from the International Bunker Industry Association to outline some of the key bunkering issues currently being discussed within the organisation and to invite audience feedback.

Moderator:
Adrian Tolson, Owner, 2025 Marine Energy / IBIA Vice Chair

Panellists:
Frank Dahan, Senior Director Strategic Sourcing and Global Fuel Strategy, CSL Group / IBIA Regional Board Member
Wajdi Abdmessih, Founder & President, Seahawk Services / IBIA Regional Board Member
Eugenia Benavides, Director Marine Fuels, Terpel S.A. / IBIA Board Member
Steve Simms, Principal and Owner, Simms Showers LLP / IBIA Regional Board Member
Nigel Draffin, Consultant, Author, Lecturer / IBIA Hon. Treasurer
Tammi Ingannamorte, VP Sales America, Global Bunker, ZeroNorth / IBIA Regional Board Member

12:30

End of Maritime Week Americas Conference

1:30 pm