ABS
ABL Marine & Energy Consultants

AP Moller - Maersk 

Aderco

AET

Anglo Ardmore Ship Management Ltd

Ardmore Shipping

Asiatic Lloyd Maritime

Blu Maritime Pte Ltd

Bureau Veritas

BW Epic Kosan
C-Leanship Singapore

Centrum Maritime Services
Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore

CMA CGM International Shipping Company

Columbia Shipmanagement
DESMI
DNV

EGCSA
ENECON

Energios

Engtek

Evergas (Seapeak)

Energios Pte Ltd

FPG AIM Capital Pte Ltd

Gard (Singapore)
GT Green Tech

Green Instruments
HamiltonJet 

Hempel (Singapore)

HFW

Hong Lam Marine

ING Bank
Infineum Singapore

Innospec

International Registries

International Parcel Tanker Association (IPTA)

IRI/The Marshall Islands Registry
Kongsberg Digital
Kongsberg Norcontrol 
Lauritzen Bulkers

Lloyd’s Register

Longitude Engineering
Lubrizol

Maersk Tankers
Maritec

MTM SHIP MANAGEMENT PTE LTD
NAPA
OceanMaster Engineering 

Oldendorff Carriers

Opal Ship Management PTE Ltd

Orient Marine Co

Penguin International
Reed Smith 
RightShip

RINA
S&P Global
Schottel Far East
Sea Consortium
SeaTech Solutions International 

Singapore Shipping Association
Sofar Ocean
Strategic Marine

Thome Ship Management

Union Marine Management Services

V. Group
Value Maritime
VDL AEC Maritime 

Viridian Maritime Pte. Ltd.

VPS

Wartsila

Wilhelmsen Group
Wilhelmsen Ship Service

Winterthur Gas & Diesel

World Fuel Services (Singapore) Pte Ltd

World Shipping Council

Yara Marine Technologies

Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association

Registration, coffee and networking

Welcome address from Riviera Maritime Media

Keynote address

Charting the path to net zero: the critical role of pilots and trials in maritime decarbonisation
This keynote presentation showcases GCMD’s progress and key learnings from its initiatives: 

• Facilitating ammonia use as a marine fuel
• Developing an assurance framework for drop-in green fuels 
• Unlocking the carbon value chain through shipboard carbon capture
• Closing the data-financing gap to widen the adoption of energy efficiency technologies
• Ongoing projects and their potential contribution towards achieving maritime decarbonisation targets 

IMO update: the outcomes of MEPC 81, ISWG-GHG 16 and future directions

Following the IMO meetings in March, you will hear updates on:

• Short term measures including CII
• Mid term measures
• Life Cycle Analysis
• The IMO’s views on shipboard carbon capture

Mike Beviss, General Manager, International Parcel Tankers Association (IPTA)

Panel

EU ETS: strategies and early experiences of shipowners, managers and charterers

• Experiences of opening an account and the main procedures involved in the scheme  
• What methods are being used for the monitoring, reporting and verification of real world emissions data?  
• How ship owners are working with charterers, managers and pool partners on the EU ETS – what are the emerging approaches to allowances, credits and hedging within different agreements?
• How the scheme works for non-European companies 

Panellists include:

Pontus Berg, Chief Operating Officer, Purus 

Capt Anand Mannath, Global Head of Operations, BW Epic Kosan

Diana Mok, Managing Director, Fratelli Cosulich Bunkers

Erlend Engelstad, Head of Commercial – Asia, European Energy Exchange

Rachel Hoyland, Of Counsel - Maritime Decarbonisation, Stephenson Harwood LLP

Networking coffee break in the exhibition area

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Panel

What is being financed and why? Expert views on green financing

• Financing options for different levels of decarbonisation: which emissions/energy reduction measures are securing finance and why?  
• What are financiers’ conditions and requirements for financing retrofits? Which banks are funding retrofits?
• Will signatories of the Poseidon Principles impose emissions related KPIs on the assets they finance? 
  

Panellists include:

Dr Kalpana Seethepalli, Director of ESG APAC, Deutsche Bank  

Stephan Vetter, Vice President Maritime Debt Origination APAC, KfW IPEX-Bank Asia

Jonathan Ne Win, Vice President, MUFG Bank

Session Q&A

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Delegates can choose to join a discussion on one of the following topics:

1. Metrics and reporting standards
2. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reduce carbon emissions and increase efficiency onboard vessel
3. CII: experiences with solutions for reducing carbon intensity
4. Software solutions for energy efficiency
5. What can shipping companies learn from tech developers about taking green investment risks? 
6. Ship building contract and charterparty considerations from a lawyer’s perspective 
7. Air Lubrication
8. Voyage optimization and the importance of accurate weather forecasts
9. How are the IMO’s mid-term measures likely to impact shipping companies? 
10. Can we navigate towards sustainability through innovation, compliance, and market adaptation
11. Hull Cleaning for Fuel Savings

1. Chen Yiping, Sustainability Manager, “K” LINE 

2. Ho Choon Lim, Deputy Group Manager, Smart Remanufacturing System (SRS) Group, Section Manager, Predictive Maintenance and Diagnostics team, Advanced Remanufacturing Technology Centre (ARTC)

3. Shu Yong Koh, Director, Global Sustainability, ABS

4. Yihu Wang, Sales Manager, NAPA 

5. Capt Rahul Choudhuri, President, Strategic Partnerships, VPS 

6. Cathal Leigh-Doyle, Partner, Stephenson Harwood LLP

7. Rajesh Madhavan, Sustainability Solutions Manager, Alfa Laval

8. Aman Arora, Senior Customer Success Manager, Sofar Ocean

9. John Bradshaw, Technical Director for Environment and Safety, World Shipping Council 

10. Rene B. Christensen, CSO, Green Instruments

11. Tor M Østervold, Co-founder and CEO, ECOsubsea AS Norway

Sharing roundtable learning outcomes

Lightning talk

Yihu Wang, Sales Manager, NAPA 

Networking coffee break in the exhibition area

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The global supply orderbook: what does it tell us about decarbonisation plans? 

• The state of the global vessel supply order book
• Will current orders be fulfilled considering the downturn in the container industry?
• Which fuels are dominant in the different vessel segments?
• How do the vessel orders differ between the major shipping regions of the world?

Jayendu Krishna, Director-Deputy Head Maritime Advisors, Drewry

Keynote

ONE’s decarbonisation plan 

• Key drivers behind our decarbonisation efforts 
• Short-term efficiency measures and technology trials  
• Our 2030 GHG emissions targets, pathways and partners in the transition 
• Strategies for 2050 and what we need from the supply chain to achieve net zero emissions

Colin de Souza, Region Head – South Asia, Ocean Network Express

Keynote

Our decarbonisation roadmap at Zim

• Our GHG emissions reduction targets
• Collaborations and trials to test net zero strategies 
• Technology pathways and priorities to 2030, 2040 and 2050
• Next steps on the decarbonisation journey

Alice Tham, Country Manager, Zim Singapore 

Session Q&A

Panel

Investing in decarbonisation measures without the certainty of the ROI: overcoming the barriers 

• Sharing experiences of deciding who pays for a major decarbonisation investment  
• How to determine the ROI of investments considering the CII, FuelEU Maritime and the EU ETS?
• Balancing the need to invest, to meet targets, with the risks of adopting a new technology
• Experiences of financing or funding a major decarbonisation initiative
• Different approaches to selecting, testing and rolling out new technologies to reduce the risk of a new investment
• First movers – will they be penalised? 
  

Panellists include:

François-Xavier Accard, Managing Director, CMA CGM International Shipping Company Pte Ltd 

Pankaj Porwal, General Manager, Project & Fleet Sustainability, Hafnia 

Dr Shahrin Osman, Director, Maritime Decarbonisation and Smart Shipping Centre of Excellence, DNV 

Felix Schoeller, Director, AAL Shipping 

Session Q&A

Lightning talk

George Thompson, Founder, GT Green Technologies

Close of day one and drinks reception 

Sponsored by:

Edwin Lampert, Executive Editor & Head of Business Relations, Riviera Maritime Media

Don Gregory, Director, EGCSA

Andrew Hoare, Global Head of Marine and Green Shipping, Fortescue

How to select the most effective performance improvement solutions

The number of performance products in the market is rapidly increasing, so how can the shipping industry determine which products are the better solutions to pursue? This presentation will share: 

• Asiatic Lloyd Maritime’s vessel rating/performance improvement Roadmap Plan
• How do we prioritise and balance the different considerations such as the economics and the product’s methodology? 
• The most effective approaches for trialling multiple products and vendors across the fleet
• Key metrics that determine why shipping companies should use a particular product

K. Rajasegaran, Senior Technical Manager, DPA & CSO, Asiatic Lloyd Maritime

Case study
Suction sails for vessels - Increasing profits, complying with regulations, and driving decarbonization

• Suction sail technology explained
• Case study and real-life efficiency results
• Customer perspectives: Choosing the best wind propulsion technology 

Cristina Aleixendri, Co-founder and COO, bound4blue 

Mirtcho Spassov, Manager, Green Shipping, Eastern Pacific Shipping

Just in time: how can we make this strategy widely adopted?

• How can we move just in time from the planning stages into real world use?
• Charterer arrangements with owners: mechanisms to ensure just in time works for the value chain 
• How can the ecosystem make this an effective arrangement? 
• Models and lessons learnt from early experiences in the container shipping segment

Douglas Raitt, Regional Advisory Services Manager, Lloyd’s Register

Session Q&A

Lightning talk: Retrofitting options for existing vessels

Cathal Leigh-Doyle, Partner, Stephenson Harwood LLP

Networking coffee break in the exhibition area

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Panel

The future of carbon capture for the maritime industry: tackling the downstream challenges

• Regulations – how are they playing into the debate around carbon capture for shipping?
• Experiences of finding somewhere to discharge the carbon ashore and utilising or securely storing it, and the costs involved in these processes  
• The operational aspects of working with onboard carbon capture such as: crew training and safety, energy consumption and the impact on opex  
• If the shipping industry moves to zero carbon fuels, what is the future of carbon capture? 

Panellists include:

Mark Cameron, Managing Director, Ardmore Shipping Asia

Capt Jagadeesan Natarajan, General Manager – Operations, Orient Marine Co. 

Mike Watt, Director, Innovation Centre of Alternatives & Renewable Energy, Bureau Veritas 

Krishna Kumar Singhania, Chief Growth Officer, Carbon Clean  

Session Q&A

Biofuel blends in the marine industry: characteristics, benefits, and challenges.
Biofuel blends have emerged as an attractive short-term option for the marine industry to reduce CO2 emissions and improve Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) values. While these blends have not shown significant negative impacts on the properties of marine fuels, there are potential concerns regarding their usage that need to be addressed. This presentation will cover the key characteristics of biofuel blends, their advantages, and the challenges associated with their adoption in the marine industry.

• Introduction to biodiesel and renewable diesel blends in the marine market
• General characteristics of biofuel blends
• Importance of measuring biofuel content:
• Potential concerns with biofuel usage
• Current research projects on bio-crude oil and biodiesel blends

Sara Rezaee, R&D Manager, Chemical Engineer - PhD, Viswa Group

Panel

Biofuels: supply and economics in the short and long terms 

• What volumes of biodiesel can we expect to see in Singapore and other major ports in the next 5 years?  
• Given these volumes, what is the percentage of shipping fuel that could be covered by biofuels
• How can we verify the origins of biofuels?
• What is the wake value and the impact on CII ratings?
• Operational concerns with the handling, storage and engine: how might they be addressed?  
• The financial viability of B30 and B100 compared to the pricing of fossil fuels, and how is this likely to change over the next 5 years? 
• Are biofuels a viable response to FuelEU Maritime? 

Panellists include:

Ansuman Ghosh, Director Risk Assessment, Thomas Miller P&I 

Mahua Chakravarty, Editor, Marine Fuels (Asia), Argus Media 

Capt Rahul Choudhuri, President, Strategic Partnerships, VPS 

Session Q&A

Lightning talk: FuelEU Maritime: challenging contractual issues 

Rachel Hoyland, Of Counsel - Maritime Decarbonisation, Stephenson Harwood LLP 

Networking lunch break in the exhibition area

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Progress and next steps on building a green methanol marine fuel consortium in Singapore 

• Ambitions and timelines for the marine fuel consortium
• What partnership agreements are already in place with methanol suppliers and bunkering companies and how will the consortium work?
• What percentage of ships that bunker in Singapore will be able to access green methanol as a marine fuel by 2030 or 2035?  
• Coordination with the MPA, the Singapore Shipping Association and IBIA
• Our plan for overcoming the hurdles to green methanol marine fuel supply and adoption in Singapore 

Donnie Bagang, Managing Director, Green Marine 

MOL Group’s efforts to establish an ammonia value chain 

• Key ammonia fuel initiatives MOL is involved in, their objectives and outcomes to date
• Progress on scaling up the supply and infrastructure for ammonia as a marine fuel 
• MOL Group’s plans for a future fleet that runs on alternative fuels 
• The next steps for the maritime industry in bringing this net zero fuel ambition to reality

Capt Ashutosh Kumar, Deputy General Manager – Decarbonization Projects, MOL (Asia Oceania)

Keynote address

Are we doing enough? Will the current pace of decarbonisation take us to our targets?

• Regulatory and technical challenges in the journey to net zero
• Opportunities to move towards greener, more efficient shipping
• Will the industry’s current plans and pace of progress be enough to get us to our 2050 goal? 

Prashanth Athipar, Principal - Maritime Safety and Technical, BHP

Session Q&A

Lightning talk: Lubricants for Ammonia Engines

Kang Ming Sheng, Operational Marketing Manager, Infineum

Networking coffee break in the exhibition area 

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Whiteboarding session

How can we bring the ecosystem together to get behind a decarbonisation plan?

In this relaxed interactive session, our speakers will be sharing their top ideas for bringing the value chain together to make tangible progress on a common sustainability plan, before commenting and building on each other’s suggestions and taking ideas and questions from the audience. A professional sketch artist will be creating a mind map of the discussion as we progress through it and will be providing a digital copy of the sketch as a useful memento for all attendees to take back into the workplace. 

• A comparison of port, charterer, owner, technical manager and pool partner priorities 
• What metrics and reporting standards are different companies using to measure success? How can we bring them into closer alignment? 
• Are charterers willing to co-invest in decarbonisation measures and take on a longer term charter? 
• How else can we rethink our approach, so we can turn decarbonisation plans into actions, by working together across the value chain? 

Panellists include:

Capt Raghav Gulati, Safety and Technical Operations Manager, Anglo American Shipping 

SK Lim, Managing Director Pacific, G2 Ocean

Dr Lars Grünitz, Managing Director, Norstar Ship Management 

Kartik Kathavate, Head of Fuel Optimisation, Maersk Tankers 

Dr Edward Ng, General Manager – Technology, Gulf Marine

Four Points by Sheraton Singapore, Riverview

Conference room: Jubilee Ballroom 

Exhibition room: Coleman Room

382 Havelock Road

Singapore 169629

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