European Bunker Fuel Virtual Conference

Adrian Tolson is the Director and Lead for BLUE’s Insight practice, and one of the shipping industry’s leading marine energy experts. With 35 years of experience, he has both detailed knowledge and insight into the supply and demand side of marine fuel, and into bunkering infrastructure development.

In 2015, Adrian founded maritime consultancy 20|20 Marine Energy, which was acquired by business, brand and communications consultancy, BLUE, in 2019. Adrian leads BLUE’s Insight practice, which provides commercial advisory, research and intelligence services across the key areas of transformation within the maritime industry. This includes the changing marine energy supply chain, digitalisation and the drive for decarbonisation and sustainability.

Adrian has led numerous global business development projects across the marine energy supply chain. This includes assisting ship owners and suppliers on fuel procurement and supply strategies in a post 2020 world; the development of bunkering infrastructure projects for clean and new fuels; as well as working with the financial and investment community on the opportunities of the future marine energy landscape.

Adrian’s experience spans leadership roles with some of the industry’s largest marine fuel suppliers, including Chemoil Energy, where he was responsible for successfully driving the company through to IPO; and as Vice President and General Manager of OW Bunker where he established its physical supply operation in the USA.

Adrian was elected to the board of the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) in April of 2020.

Cem Saral is the CEO of the Cockett Group (www.cockettgroup.com), one of the world’s leading resellers of marine and petroleum products and services and has over 20 years of industry experience on marine fuels and fuel oil trading.

During his career Cem has been employed at various key trading and management roles by leading oil trading and marine fuel oil companies. He has a wide geographical coverage and direct working experience in Europe, Asia, US, Far East and the Middle East.

Having worked extensively at both marine fuels and fuel oil trading industries, Cem has a sound understanding of the entire fuel oil supply chain and physical trading on a global basis. As a further value-add, he has had the opportunity to employ these direct trading experiences into areas of business development, management and strategic M&A activities.

Prior to joining to Cockett, Cem was last employed as a fuel oil trader by Vitol, one of the world’s leading energy and commodity trading companies (www.vitol.com) and 50% shareholder of the Cockett Group.

Cem holds a BSc degree in Operations Research from Turkish Naval Academy and throughout his career he has attended a wide range of programs on trading, risk, finance and management.

Rebecca Farrall has a maritime background and has developed a strong reputation for her knowledge and skills gained with Aderco and two of the world’s leading cruise lines as well as her experience working with ro-pax ferries and container shipping. She is also an industry recognised speaker on fuel and bunkering issues.

In 2017 Rebecca joined Aderco – one of the world’s leading fuel treatment companies – to manage their UK, Middle East, USA and Cyprus operations. Her insight into the different maritime sectors covering both technical and operational issues has been invaluable in her work with ship owners, managers and operators who are using Aderco’s fuel treatment products across the globe.

Her maritime career began at sea where she worked until 2011, mainly on container ships, ro-pax ferries and cruise ships. During 2011 Rebecca began her land-based career with Carnival UK as Fleet Operations Manager. This gave her responsibilities for managing and planning ship deployments, handling berthing conflicts and the rescheduling of cruise operations for one of the world’s premier cruise lines.

Rebecca’s involvement with Carnival’s new build and launch events proved invaluable experience of working with senior stakeholders for when she moved to Saga as Planning & Assurance Officer: a role that proved a diverse range of challenges.

Bjarne has more than 25 years’ experience from commodity markets. He has worked with analysis, market modelling, structured deals as well as trading of commodities for large commodity trading companies like Enron in Scandinavia and Cargill in Geneva. He later worked for Point Carbon in Oslo analysing the European EU-ETS emission market involving European energy politics as well fossil fuel markets. Bjarne has a Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Oslo. Since 2008 he has held the position as Chief Analyst Commodities in SEB covering energy, metals, agricultural products as well as precious metals. The primary focus through his career has been energy markets.

Kristine Petrosyan leads refining, crude, and product market research for the International Energy Agency's flagship Oil Market Report. She started her career in Ernst&Young's Moscow office in the corporate finance department. After graduating with an MSc in Energy Studies from the University of Dundee in Scotland, she joined BP in London as an upstream commercial analyst for Russian projects, moving on later to trading analysis. Prior to joining the IEA, she worked in BP and Glencore as a middle distillates trading analyst.

Christian Bækmark Schiolborg is Manager, Marine Environment at BIMCO. He is responsible for analysing regulatory developments, mainly on issues related to marine fuel, energy efficiency and decarbonisation of shipping. Furthermore, he represents BIMCO at international organisations such as the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on aforementioned matters.

Christian is educated as dual officer (deck officer and marine engineer) and has sailed on container and offshore ships.

Before joining BIMCO, he worked 6 years with the Danish Maritime Authority. Here he began as ship surveyor, became port state control officer and ended as special adviser in technical regulation in the department for maritime regulations and legal affairs, where he represented Denmark in IMO on different technical issues and was Head of the Danish delegation in the Sub-committee on Ship Systems and Equipment.

Jan started his career in bunkering and shipping in 1997 with Maersk in Copenhagen.

Before joining Hapag-Lloyd in Hamburg as Senior Director of Global Fuel Purchasing in the summer of 2019, Jan held management positions with Bomin, OW Bunker and Maersk Oil Trading in Denmark and Germany.

Jan has worked in all parts of the bunkering supply chain (sourcing, risk management, sales, purchasing) and has a unique insight on both sides of the negotiation table.

Kjeld Aabo holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a special diploma in marketing.

He joined MAN Diesel in the Stationary Installation Department in 1983. In 1992, he was appointed section manager in the Marine Installation Department and in 1994 he was appointed manager of the Marine Installation Department. In 2002, Kjeld Aabo took over the Engineering Services Department and was appointed Senior Manager. In 2005, he took over the Research Centre Department.

From November 2006, Kjeld Aabo was director of the department for Promotion & Customer Support and from March 2009 head of the Two-stroke Promotion department at the head office for two-stroke engines in Copenhagen, Denmark.

From 2011 to 2014, Kjeld Aabo took over a position in Brazil as head of MAN Marine and Offshore division.

After returning to Denmark in 2014 Kjeld Aabo is Director of new technologies in the Promotion and Sales department for two-stroke engines and GenSet engines.

Kjeld Aabo is Chairman of the CIMAC Heavy Fuel Working Group (WG), and member of the ISO 8217 Heavy Fuel Oil Working Group.

Poul Woodall has over 45 years of experience within the maritime and transport industry. The first 36 years were spent with A.P.Moller-Maersk in various positions, mainly within the container and Ro/Ro segments. His career includes 17 years overseas experience with postings in Asia, The Middle East and Europe.

In 2010, Poul joined DFDS A/S in Copenhagen and in June 2013 he was appointed Director for Environment and Sustainability for the DFDS Group. Poul Woodall has a degree from Copenhagen Business School supplemented with management education at Insead and Stanford University. Poul has been active in many industry organizations, Trident Alliance, Green Ship of the Future, SeaFocus and Clean Shipping Alliance to mention a few. Marine environment policy work is conducted through his affiliation with Interferry and various ESSF working groups in Brussels.

Poul is a co-author of “Sustainable Shipping, a Cross-Disciplinary View” (Springer, 2019).

Today Poul works part-time with DFDS as a Senior Advisor.

Constantinos Capetanakis is a qualified Greek lawyer since 1997 and an English solicitor since 2002.

From 1998 to 2002 he was the Legal Counsel of Excel Maritime Carriers, a Piraeus-based shipping company listed in NYSE. Constantinos further worked as a marine litigation solicitor at Holman Fenwick & Willan, both in London and Piraeus. Between 2004-2013 he was a shareholder and Director of Quantum Shipping Ltd., a Piraeus-based shipping company, where he was responsible for the company’s investment strategy as well as for all legal, commercial and managerial issues.

In 2014 Constantinos joined Starbulk, initially serving as General Manager of a number of private vessels and subsequently as Executive Vice President – Control Director of the group’s procurement arm, Ship Procurement Services SA. Since 2019 Constantinos is serving as Starbulk’s Bunkers Director, responsible for bunkering procurement / strategy and Starbulk’s cooperation with bunker industry stakeholders.

In 2020 Constantinos was, for the first time, a candidate in International Bunker Industry Association’s (IBIA) BoD elections and got elected as IBIA’s Board Member. He is currently the Chairman of IBIA’s Future Fuels Working Group and a member of the Legal, Technical and Membership Working Groups of IBIA.

Robin Meech is Managing Director of Marine and Energy Consulting, an independent consultancy established in 2001 focusing on the marine industry. MECL has a particular interest in the bunker sector. The company’s work frequently centres around providing insight into the future operating environment. This is particularly relevant at this time of immense changes: in the near term from the impact of 2020 and even more crucially, the effect of the devastating economic contraction. Longer term as the health of the planet comes to the forefront again, the way in which water bourne transport reduces its impact on the environment.

MECL advises governments, international agencies, oil companies large and small, the ship owning and operating community as well as the supply side of the bunker sector. The emergence of an even wider range of fuels are presenting unique questions particularly for those making strategic decision where MECL is being retained to help add confidence and insight.

Robin is co-author of the book entitled “Bunkers – An analysis of the Technical and Environmental Issues” and is a past chairman of the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA).

Uniquely-experienced credit specialist across the shipping, oil & gas, transport/logistics and aviation sectors. Chris is an insightful natural analyst and manager with a proven track record on collections, reducing portfolio risk/loss rates, business development and working with banks and credit insurers.