Οn the 5th Μay, the benchmark maritime conference, “6th Maritime Τrends Conference”, under the auspices of Marine Tours

For the 6th consecutive year, Marine Tours organizes the Maritime Trends Conference, which will take place on May 5, 2018, at Divani Caravel Hotel Athens, under the Academic Support of Deree & Alba – The American College of Greece.

As every year, this year’s event will focus on the latest developments in human resources management, while elaborating on the major, modern issues of the wider Maritime Industry.

Leading Greek and foreign speakers will meet in the Conference panels to exchange fruitful views on the present and the future of global shipping and to present – each from their own specialization field – the Challenges and Prospects of the Sector.

More specifically, the individuals who will honor the event with their particularly interesting speeches are Mr., Mrs., George Lazaridis, Head of Market Research & Valuations, Allied Shipbroking Inc., Nikolaos Papanestis, First Vice President in the Oceans’ Industries Division of DNB BANK ASA, Dr. Vangelis Tsioumas, Full-time faculty, Deree – The American College of Greece, George Kouleris, Chief Operating Officer, PRIME, Dr. Maria Progoulaki, Representative and Consultant, Green-Jakobsen A / S – Lecturer, Deree – The American College of Greece and teaching fellow, Alba Graduate Business School – The American College of Greece, Erik Green, Managing Director, Green-Jakobsen A / S , Dr. Alexandros Glykas, Naval Architect & Marine Engineer Ph.D, DYNAMARINe, George M. Teriakidis, Regional Business Development Manager, DNV GL, Panos G. Moraitis, CEO of Aspida and Yiannis G. Timagenis, Partner at Timagenis Law Firm (Greece) LL.B., LL.M, much. M.C.I.Arb. – Lecturer, Deree – The American College of Greece.

The 2018 market forecasts, the current trends in the financing of global shipping and its recent economic fundamentals, the most crucial legal issues and how they directly affect the sector, the cyber risks and the developments on the newest “wave” of unmanned ships, are just some of the very interesting topics that will be presented during the conference.

The 3 speakers’ panels will be coordinated by Mr., Mrs., George C. Xiradakis, Founder-Managing Director, XRTC Business Consultants, Konstantinos Oikonomou, CEO, Marine Tours and Dr. Maria Progoulaki, Representative and Consultant, Green-Jakobsen A / S – Lecturer, Deree – The American College of Greece and teaching fellow, Alba Graduate Business School – The American College of Greece, respectively.

It is worth noting that the participation is offered free of charge * to the shipping companies, as the Conference is one of the various actions implemented by Marine Tours to support and promote Hellenic Shipping.

On the Conference’s website, interested parties can be informed in detail about the program, as well as refer to the speakers’ resumes.

*pre-registration is required