{"id":1468,"date":"2025-02-11T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2025-02-11T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:52:38","slug":"navigator-forum-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/navigator-forum-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"NAVIGATOR FORUM 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1221918225\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1239927693\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1375372595\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/08-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/08-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/08-1-800x211.jpg 800w, https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/08-1-1400x369.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/08-1-768x202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/08-1-1536x405.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitify.eu\/kt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/08-1-600x158.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1375372595 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-2022175138\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div id=\"ui-id-2\" class=\"eltdf-accordion-content ui-accordion-content ui-corner-bottom ui-helper-reset ui-widget-content ui-accordion-content-active\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"ui-id-1\" aria-hidden=\"false\">\n<div class=\"eltdf-accordion-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<p><strong>NAVIGATOR FORUM 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 7th annual maritime Conference \u201c<strong>NAVIGATOR 2007<\/strong>\u201d, organized under the auspices of the hellenic ministry of mercantile marine has been completed with remarkable success in Athens Golf Club in Glyfada, on Wednesday, 6th June 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The main topics of the Conference \u201c NAVIGATOR 2007 \u201d were the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<ol>\n<li>Will the establishment of the \u201cHellenic Mutual P&amp;I Association\u201d become a reality?<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Nikolaos Velliades, Chairman \/ managing director of Aigaion Insurance Company S.A.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Marine towage rules and regulations in the west coast of USA.<br \/>\n<em>Speaker : Mr. Dave Hill, Vice president harbor services of Foss Maritime Company \u2013 USA.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Medical and caring expenses \u2013 greek crew members.<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mrs. Christina Desimone- CEO of Future Care INC. \u2013 USA.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Turkish straits \/ vessels traffic service (VTS) centers &amp; regulations for the safe navigation<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Kaan Polat \u2013 General Manager of Cerrahgil Ship Agencies and Services co. Ltd- Turkey.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ballast water treatment and not emissions.(environmental issues)<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Jason Georgiou \u2013 Manager of Vecom Marine Alliance.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Strategy &amp; entrepreneurship of the greek shipowners<br \/>\n<i>Speaker: Mr. George Maniatakis, consultant for development of shipping companies &amp; executives, naval architect, mba, qm system auditor (saq \u2013eon) principal see\u00a0college.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Hedging oil price risk<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Panagiotis Bachtis, managing director of Own Bunker Malta ltd.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Logistics services tailored to the shipowners and shipmanagement companies \u2013 schenkermarineparts: the experts in marine logistics<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Helge Jensen, product management schenkermarine parts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Key point considerations on double hull conversion.<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Kostas Maounis, general manager of Elkco Marine Group of companies.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The global village<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Dionissis Simopoulos, director of the Eugenides planetarium, astrophysical.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Handling agency matters in Nigeria<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Gilbert Ibeanusi , managing director, CEO of Gilola International Agencies- Nigeria.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The effect of the chinese evolution to the international freight market.<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Ioannis Pachoulis, President of the Union of the Hellenic Shipbrokers Association and managing director of Megachart inc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Expansion of the Panama canal<br \/>\n<em>Speaker: Mr. Gabriel Fernandez, engineer, managing director of ISB (Panama).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Some of the most remarkable points of the Conference have been made by Mrs. Christina Desimone, who analyzed the procedure for the reduction of the crew medical care cost for vessels under greek management calling USA ports.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation of the Speaker of the Turkish Vessel Traffic System (VTS), capt. Tuncay Cehreli, who stressed the importance of operation issues of the centre controlling the safe navigation of the dardanelle and Bosphorus straits was also interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Impressive has also been the speech of Mr. Nikolaos Velliadis, Chairman and managing director of Aigaion Insurance Company s.a., which concerned the recent enactment of the government law for the mainframe of establishment and management of \u201cHellenic Mutual P&amp;I clubs\u201d in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference has been conducted with the participation of:<\/p>\n<p><strong>NAVIGATOR LTD. members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Foss maritime company (the biggest towing company in west coast of (U.S.A.).<br \/>\n2. Future care inc. (medical services in USA).<br \/>\n3. Cerrahgil ship agencies and services co. Ltd (agents in Turkey).<br \/>\n4. Gilola international agencies (agents in Nigeria) .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major guest of honour:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Evangelos Kouzilos \u2013 President of masters &amp; mates\u2019 Union of greek merchant marine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Officially invited speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ioannis Tzoannos,\u00a0<em>General secretary of the ministry of mercantile marine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ilias Sionidis,\u00a0<em>Commandant of the Hellenic coast guard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Alexandros M. Goulielmos,\u00a0<em>Coordinator of the conference \u201cNavigator 2007\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Main speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Maria-Christina Ktistakis,\u00a0<em>President of Wista and managing director of Seabound Maritime inc.<\/em><br \/>\nMr. Panagiotis Bachtis, M<em>anaging director of O.W. 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