Team: Maritime

Arie started a career at sea in 1993 in the Royal Dutch Navy as a watch/ops officer.  In 2001 he changed to working with juvenile delinquents on a training vessel (MV Koningin Juliana) for 8 years and in 2008 he started pilot training while working on tugboats and dynamic positioning (DP) vessels. Arie is an…

Özgür lives in Istanbul. He graduated from maritime school in 2002 as a deck officer. He has work experience with multinational crews on general cargo vessels, oil and chemical tankers. He came ashore and worked in the crewing department at a management company. After that he returned to sea and is still working on tankers.…

Giovanni is a Master Mariner, ISM lead auditor, a Designated Person Ashore (DPA) and certified maritime trainer with 20 years working experience in the maritime industry. He has command experience as the Master of RO-RO and container vessels and has also worked ashore as a Designated Person Ashore (DPA). He also assists maritime students prepare…

Arie has 50 years’ experience in the maritime industry of which 42 have been as a master, training master, marine manager or marine consultant.  Most of this was in the towage sector where he has trained over 1500 tug-masters, and he has overseen the establishment of towage operations in 23 ports. He is patron of…

Captain Kumar Krishnamurthy has 17 years of sea-going experience including command, followed by 13 years as a Marine Surveyor cum Loss Assessor, 4 years as Container Terminal Superintendent and currently in his 15th year as Associate Professor in AMET University, Chennai – having been Dean and Chairperson in the School of Nautical Studies. His sailing…

Located in London, Mustafa is a master mariner with 6 years on board ships and 12 years as a marine compliance and regulatory ship inspector. He was a former accredited representative to IMO for 10 years for a number of NGO and member states.

Originally a Marine Engineer by trade – Eric is the Chief Executive of the FISH Safety Foundation – www.fishsafety.org.  He has 25 years’ experience as a safety professional, assisting clients with training and consulting services across a broad spectrum of industry – ranging from Off-shore Diamond Mining and Nuclear Power to Rail and Commercial Fishing…

Henk started in 1979 as a deck boy and worked his way up to the rank of Ship’s Master, which he has now been for 20 years.  Since 2020, he has worked as a deep-sea pilot (for the North Sea area including English Channel and Dover Strait) and as a Ship’s Master for Redwise in…

Paul spent twenty years as officer and Master with the Canadian Coast Guard, over a decade as a marine accident investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Having attended IMO and published in several industry journals he is a contributing author for Lloyd’s Maritime Academy Diploma program in “Marine Investigation” and the Certificate course…

Andrew has over twelve years of experience of working in the maritime industry (post training) in diverse range of roles on working on board AHTS, PSV and seismic survey vessels, crude oil tankers, product tankers, hydrographic Survey, bulk cargo and an INF cargo vessel. He is currently managing operations on board the Pacific Osprey/Orca the…

Cristian is an experienced Master Mariner who works in Romania. He is a qualified STCW trainer and assessor and has a background in shipping, oil and gas offshore installations and has expertise in loss prevention and accident investigation.

Rodrigo Cintra is a Marine Engineer, high skilled in Marine Management and Corporative Education, with more than 20 years’ experience in different types of vessels, working both aboard and onshore as superintendent and manager.   Starting in 2001 as a cadet, when he joined CIAGA (Brazilian Merchant Marine Academy), he worked in several big companies,…