{"id":142,"date":"2018-11-01T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2018\/11\/01\/streams-senior-stakeholders-and-new-contacts-to-be-made-at-pff-2018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:47:38","slug":"streams-senior-stakeholders-and-new-contacts-to-be-made-at-pff-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/news-pff\/streams-senior-stakeholders-and-new-contacts-to-be-made-at-pff-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Streams, senior stakeholders and new contacts to be made at PFF 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With key emissions targets set in 2020 and 2050, there has never been a better time to learn from the experts who are surging towards significant reductions in carbon emissions. This year\u2019s conference concentrates on \u2018Powering shipping\u2019s emissions-cutting ambitions\u2019, addressing the ways in which practical and technical developments in the fields of propulsion technology and alternative fuels are offering more solutions than ever to the shipping industry.<\/p>\n<p><u>Top level keynotes for a landmark conference<\/u><\/p>\n<p>The opening session on Wednesday 14<sup>th<\/sup> November will provide delegates with Keynote addresses from Harry Conway, Vice Chairman, MEPC (Marine Environmental Protection Council), IMO and Thomas S. Knudsen, Senior Vice President \u2013 Head of Two-Stroke Business, MAN Energy Solutions. This will be followed by a shipowner panel who will be tackling the topic of investing in the future fleet.<\/p>\n<p><u>Future Fuel mix crucial to owners, operators, manufacturers and more<\/u><\/p>\n<p>After a networking lunch and the chance to meet the many industry leaders and sponsors attending this year\u2019s event, delegates will have the chance to hear from a range of experts, from shipowners to fuel specialists, in the session on \u2018understanding the future fuel mix\u2019. Among the speakers in this session are Dr Gerd-Michael Wuersig, Business Director Alternative Fuels, at DNV GL \u2013 Maritime, Business Development. Gerd will be joined by Steve Bee, Group Commercial &amp; Business Development Director, Veritas Petroleum Services and Sjaak Klap, V.P., Business Development Department, Spliethoff.<\/p>\n<p>View further details of this session and more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propulsionconference.com\/about-the-conference\/conference-programme\">conference programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Delegate places include two days of conference, access to the conference dinner and pre-dinner drinks, full documentation in printed format and a place at the technical visit on board a Scandlines hybrid vessel where delegates will learn about their zero emissions project.<\/p>\n<p>To book your place visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propulsionconference.com\/e-commerce\">website<\/a>, email us at <a href=\"mailto:conferneces@propulsionconference.com\">conferneces@propulsionconference.com<\/a> or call +44 1329 825335.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the event on twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Motorship\">@Motorship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference brings together the whole shipping community and is a platform for the exchange of information on the latest future fuel mix and predictions of future trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-pff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}