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Event Sponsors 2019
Diamond Sponsor
Inmarsat Global Ltd
Inmarsat sets the standard in maritime communications with the world’s most advanced commercial global mobile satellite network. When it matters most, thousands of vessels depend on Inmarsat to enhance operational efficiency, promote crew welfare and maximise safety at sea.
Platinum Sponsors
DNV GL
DNV GL is the world’s leading classification society and a recognized advisor for the maritime industry. We enhance safety, quality, energy efficiency and environmental performance of the global shipping industry – across all vessel types and offshore structures.
Hill Dickinson
With a casualty management history dating from the Titanic and the Lusitania up to the Costa Concordia – Hill Dickinson offer value without compromise. Our international team comprises more than 100 dedicated legal experts and Master Mariners who provide a one-stop shop for the maritime sector across personal injury, transactional and contentious matters.
Lloyd’s Register
Lloyd’s Register are a leading international provider of classification, compliance and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, helping clients design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance, using our expertise and over 250 years’ experience to deliver the smart solution for everyone.
UK Ship Register
Quality through partnership
Committed to safety of life at sea but with no compromise on our standards
One stop shop for national and international statutory requirements
Expert advice available 24/7
Building a better maritime business with owners and operators
ABS
ABS, a leading global provider of classification and technical advisory services to the marine and offshore industries, is committed to setting standards for safety and excellence in design, construction and operation.
Conference Sponsor
Dubai Maritime City Authority
Founded in 2007, Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) has brought about a radical change in the local maritime sector through an extensive range of industry initiatives and regulations which support its ambitious approach to creating a safe investment environment for industry leaders from all over the world, while reaffirming Dubai’s position as a first-class international maritime hub.
Gala Dinner Reception Sponsor
HFW
HFW is a sector-focused global law firm with over 500 lawyers working across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Our shipping lawyers provide a comprehensive service to the global maritime business community. Home to the world’s largest and most diverse team of maritime lawyers, our network covers all major marine hubs.
Gold Sponsors
The Baltic Exchange
The Baltic Exchange is the world’s only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts. Our international community of more than 600 members encompasses the majority of world shipping interests and commits to a code of business conduct overseen by the Baltic.
Bureau Veritas
Bureau Veritas is a leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification (TIC) services, and is the largest TIC providing classification, certification and technical services to the marine and offshore industries. The Group, is listed on Euronext Paris, belongs to the Next 20 index, and has 75,000 employees in around 1,400 offices and laboratories world-wide.
Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright is one of the few global law firms able to provide all the services needed by today’s sophisticated shipping companies. We have more than 4,000 lawyers based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. Recognised for our industry focus, shipping has been at our core throughout our 200-year history.
Silver Sponsors
BDO UK
The BDO Shipping team delivers a wealth of knowledge and expertise to clients in the shipping industry. The merger of BDO UK and Moore Stephens LLP has extended our reach and brought new expertise and resources to add to our shipping experience. We continue our longstanding association with the shipping industry and place customers at the heart of what we do.
The extent of our experience is demonstrated by a net book value of vessels acted for in London that exceeds US$10 billion. We work with BDO international member firms and offices in all of the main global shipping locations.
Braemar Shipping Services PLC
Braemar Shipping Services PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is an international provider of shipbroking, financial advisory, technical and logistics services.
Braemar has long term relationships with ship owners, charterers, providers of finance to shipping and offshore, oil and gas majors, and marine underwriters.
The Group has global coverage and over 800 experienced staff of shipbrokers, financial advisors to shipping, marine surveyors, engineers and logistics experts located at key offices in London, Singapore, Houston, Hamburg, Dubai and Melbourne.
Dell EMC
From the Edge to Cloud and Ship to Shore, Dell EMC OEM is bringing Business Value to the Maritime Industry. Dell EMC’s Marine Type Approved IT solutions are built to the highest standards of safety, quality and efficiency and are specially engineered for use in the marine and offshore industries. The portfolio includes servers, IoT gateways, embedded box PCs, workstation and networking solutions designed to comply with classification standards for temperature, humidity, vibration, electro-magnetic compatibility and enclosure location classes. Whatever you’re working on, we can help you build it and get it to market faster than you can on your own. Let us show you how.
Gray Page
Often working in sensitive, complex circumstances, we assist our clients by investigating problems, such as: cargo theft, losses, damage, suspected fraud, suspicious events and piracy. We uncover information, find evidence, interpret data and resolve anomalies; as well as undertaking in-depth due-diligence, research studies and risk analysis.
Ince Gordon Dadds
With a heritage reaching back 150 years, Ince Gordon Dadds is a dynamic international law firm, which services our global client base from offices across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Our preeminent international Shipping Group has the ability and expertise to service client needs across time zones.
Indian Register of Shipping
Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) is an international ship classification society providing ship classification and certification as well as technical inspection services. IRClass is a Member of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). Covering a wide range of shipping, offshore and industrial projects, our team of dedicated professionals brings international standardisation and assurance to your doorstep.
New York Maritime (NYMAR)
NYMAR is a member-based association, consisting of over 200 members including maritime professionals and corporations in the greater metropolitan New York area. Our goal is to promote the benefits of the region as a maritime business center in order to attract more businesses to share in the opportunities available.
Spinnaker Global
The world’s leading shipping employers work in partnership with Spinnaker Global to recruit their staff and executives. They depend upon Spinnaker for talent management support and reliable salary & reward data.
20 years in the industry. 40 staff UK and Singapore. Success in 60 countries.
Recruitment. Executive Search. HR Consulting. Secretariat of the Maritime HR Association and the Seafarer Employers’ Association.
The Standard Club UK
The Standard is a leading International P&I Club providing liability insurance to around 10% of the world shipping. Managed by Charles Taylor, we ‘set the standard’ by protecting, serving and innovating for our members.
V.Group
As the leading global provider of maritime support services, V.Group is driving the transformation of our industry. Operating around the clock and around the world, V.Group gives every client the quality, efficiency and performance they need. Covering crew management and recruitment, quality ship management and technical services, together with supporting management and commercial services, V.Group’s industry knowledge is unrivalled.
Watson Farley & Williams
Watson Farley & Williams is the world’s pre-eminent law firm in the maritime sector, with over 35 years’ experience providing premium legal services to the maritime industry. Our team is the largest dedicated maritime practice of any law firm in the world, with almost 200 lawyers and 60 partners within our wider Maritime Sector Group.
Official Market Opening at the London Stock Exchange
ATPI Griffinstone
ATPI Griffinstone specialises in managing the complexity of moving ship’s crews. As international leaders in marine travel, we provide a highly responsive service that focuses cost effectiveness, flexibility and duty of care. Part of IAG Group
Branded Wi-Fi
Clarksons Platou
Clarksons Platou is the lead provider of Chartering, Sale and Purchase, Newbuilding and Demolition for the shipping and offshore industries. Our financial division delivers debt and equity capital solutions and offers debt restructuring, corporate finance and equity research across the global maritime, oil services and natural resources sectors. This is underpinned by world leading data, research and analysis for the shipping and offshore markets.
Lanyards & Badges
UK P&I Club
The UK P&I Club is a leading provider of P&I insurance and other services to the international shipping community.
Established in 1869 the UK P&I Club insures over 240 million tonnes of owned and chartered shipping through its international offices and claims network.
Bronze Sponsors
Associated British Ports
ABP is the UK’s leading ports operator with 21 ports and other transport related businesses creating a unique national network capable of handling a vast array of cargo.
ABP contributes £7.5 billion to the UK economy every year and supports 119,000 jobs. Our current investment programme promises to deliver an extra £1.75 billion for the economy every year.
BLUE Communications
GLOBAL PR & COMMUNICATIONS EXPERTS
With our specialist communications expertise, industry knowledge and contact networks, BLUE is the leading global PR and communications consultancy for the marine and energy markets. BLUE is recognised by PR Week as a ‘Top 150 Consultancy’.
Capital Link
Capital Link, headquartered in New York is an investor relations, financial communications and advisory firm with a strategic focus on the maritime, commodities and energy sectors, and U.S. Investment Funds.
Capital Link Investment Forums are known for the organization of large-scale high quality maritime transportation and U.S. investment products events in key industry centers, such as New York, London, Athens, Limassol, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.
Citi Group
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
Columbia Shipmanagement
Columbia Shipmanagement is an international organisation with 40 years of experience as world-class providers of maritime services within the shipping industry. With more than 20 management and representative offices, crew agencies and training centres worldwide connects us to our 15.000 employees on land and sea. Columbia has developed a unique set-up that enables it to provide flexible packages of modular management services, fully-customisable and specifically tailor-made for each client.
EPSCO-RA
EPSCO-RA delivers a customized consulting or managed cybersecurity service for the global maritime community. With expertise in maritime and cybersecurity services spanning over twenty-five years, Epsco-Ra offers an adaptive and highly effective 24/7 network security solution, serviced by our team of certified cybersecurity professionals and engineers.
Let’s meet the maritime cybersecurity demands of the 21st century.
Faststream Recruitment Group
The Faststream Recruitment Group was established in 1999, employs over 100 people and is a global people specialist in Shipping, Maritime and Offshore Oil and Gas recruitment.
We operate from three key maritime locations in the EMEA, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.
Infospectrum Ltd
Infospectrum provides expert analysis and business intelligence in the arenas of ocean freight and commodities. Both industries suffer major challenges with regard to establishing beneficial ownership, financial strength and market performance. Our products, which range from concise counterparty risk appraisal reports to in-depth due diligence and consultancy, are designed to help our clients assess potential partners and make timely, well-informed credit and commercial decisions.
Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO)
The IMDO is Ireland’s national dedicated development, promotional and marketing agency for the shipping and shipping services sector.
The IMDO is the Irish government agency which provides support to national and international maritime businesses in Ireland. It is the aim of the IMDO to be the focal point for maritime business in Ireland. The IMDO provides government and industry with a range of information and reporting across the sector and works with international businesses to help them set-up or expand in Ireland.
Isle of Man Maritime
Isle of Man Maritime Limited is a not for profit organisation, which was formed to develop, support and promote the Isle of Man’s growing sector.
KVH Industries, Inc.
KVH Industries, Videotel, and KVH Media Group deliver award-winning maritime satellite communications via mini-VSAT Broadband, the No. 1 maritime VSAT network; comprehensive e-learning and training solutions; and licensed news and entertainment content for fleets and crews worldwide.
Port of London Authority
The Thames is the UK’s busiest inland waterway and home to its second biggest port. Use of the river is set to grow markedly over the next 20 years under a ground breaking ‘Vision’ project led by the Port of London Authority.
Quadrant Chambers
Quadrant Chambers is a leading set of commercial barristers, with a pre-eminent reputation in shipping, maritime, commodities, energy and international commercial disputes. Quadrant Chambers is known for the rigour and talent of its barristers and its commitment to excellence in the provision of client service.
Reed Smith
Reed Smith is a dynamic international law firm dedicated to helping clients move their businesses forward. The shipping industry is in a period of rapid change as technology and the regulatory landscape change the way companies do business. Our long-standing relationships and international outlook enable us to get a deeper understanding of our clients’ needs and help businesses prepare for the future.
The Shipowners' Club
The Shipowners’ Club is a mutual insurance association. It offers Protection & Indemnity (P&I), Legal Costs Cover and associated insurances to smaller and specialist vessel owners, operators and charterers around the world.
Simpson Spence Young
As trusted and long-established ship brokers, Simpson Spence Young has the privilege of working with clients across the globe, connecting people in the world of shipping.
Our wide range of expertise and knowledge means that we can provide support to clients of any size, from the largest names in shipping to boutique firms and individuals.
The Swedish Club
The Swedish Club is a leading marine insurer which offers the full range of marine insurance and expertise; P&I, H&M, FD&D, Energy & Offshore and additional insurance.
The Club, established by shipowners in 1872, is a mutual organisation with the head office in Gothenburg, Sweden and offices in Piraeus, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Oslo and London.
We have our members’ best at heart at all times, always have done and always will do.
University of Plymouth
With its origins as a School of Navigation dating to back to 1862, the University of Plymouth offers a suite of undergraduate and postgraduate maritime programmes, including maritime business and law, navigation, and engineering. With a truly international alumni network, supported by our alumni organisation PYNDA, we offer a distinctive, industry recognised learning experience.
Waves Group
Waves Group combines the expertise of Mwaves & Cwaves. We are completely independent Marine & Engineering Consultants to the shipping and offshore energy industries for marine casualties, claims, disputes, litigation, platform decommissioning, renewable energy and other offshore projects. Our philosophy is to deliver exceptional service to our Clients at a competitive price. We provide technical support and advice with a 24/7 response service available for marine casualties, salvage, wreck removal projects and port damage claims Worldwide.
Associate Sponsors
SEA20
SEA20 is an international forum for the world’s foremost Smart and Ecologically-Ambitious marine cities which aims to establish a league of cities working under the common aim of rethinking the marine ecosystem. This will entail embracing digitalization and will result in the creation of innovative, smart and sustainable ways of doing business across our oceans. The initiative is made possible by Wärtsilä, a global leader in smart technologies and complete lifecycle solutions for marine and energy markets.
ShipMoney
ShipMoney is an industry-leading provider of payment solutions for maritime companies throughout the world. We develop efficient, customized cost-saving programs for crew, vendors and suppliers facilitating crew payroll payments, international corporate remittances, money transfers, mobile top-ups, payroll advances onboard expenses and all other forms of shoreside and onboard payments.
