Breakbulk Middle East 2018 Pocket Guide by Breakbulk Events & Media

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WELCOME

BEN BLAMIRE COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR ben.blamire@breakbulk.com +971 (0) 4 4572926, +971 (0) 50 3576672

As the Middle East’s only event dedicated to breakbulk and project cargo, ro-ro and heavy-lift transportation and logistics, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to Breakbulk Middle East 2018. Our exhibitors represent the endto-end value chain for the transport of oversize cargo, showcasing the widest variety of project cargo specialists – from ocean carriers, project forwarders and transportation specialists to ports and terminals, equipment suppliers and industry-related services.

shippers such as SNC-Lavalin, ABB, McDermott International, Petrofac, and TechnipFMC.

I would like to thank our event patron H.E. Dr. Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure & Development and Chairman of FTA, for his key support of Breakbulk Middle East 2018.

I extend an equally warm welcome to all of our VIP Shipper Club members, new and existing. I trust you will have an informative and productive event! With so much going on at Breakbulk Middle East, please utilize the online event guide (bbme2018guide.breakbulk.com) to its fullest. It will really help you make the most of your two busy days.

In the Breakbulk Conference Suite, delegates will have the opportunity to hear expert perspectives and analyses from key stakeholders to give insight and guidance into the issues and opportunities in our region. Our speakers include cargo

I’d like to thank all of our sponsors, exhibitors and delegates for their continued support, whilst extending a warm welcome to new participants. Special thanks to our host port, Abu Dhabi Ports, as well as King Abdullah Port, DP World, Bahri Logistics and Agility for their support as exhibitors and sponsors at Breakbulk Middle East.

08:00 – 17:00

08:00 – 18:00

Registration

Exhibition Hall Hours

10:00 – 11:00

Opening Ceremony & Ribbon Cutting His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure & Development and Chairman of the Federal Transport Authority

11:00 – 11:20

Welcoming Remarks Conference Suite, on the exhibition floor Janet Nodar, Content Director, Breakbulk Events & Media

H.E. Dr. Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Infrastructure & Development and Chairman of FTA

Abdulkareem Al Masabi, Vice President – Ports Operations, Abu Dhabi Ports

Abdullah Bin Damithan, CCO, DP World

11:25-11:45

Overview: King Abdullah Port King Abdullah Port, on the Red Sea, is part of King Abdullah Economic City and one of the world’s top 100 ports by throughput. At full build-out, the privately owned port will have ro-ro capacity to handle 1.5 million vehicles annually. The port’s first phase of general cargo terminals, to be operated by AMSteel, will open second quarter 2018. The port’s CEO will introduce the port’s plans with a focus on project and breakbulk cargo ambitions. Rayan Qutub, CEO, King Abdullah Port, Ports Development Company

TUESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY

Agenda

BREAKBULK MIDDLE EAST 2018

TUESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY

11:50 – 12:30

Envisioning the GCC The Gulf Cooperation Council shares many things, including a range of visions – blueprints for economic development. These encompass transport, infrastructure and industry. How will these plans affect industrial investment, and the project sector? Richard Thompson, Editorial Director with MEED, a key resource for Middle Eastern business intelligence, shares his insights on what to expect from the GCC’s ambitious visions.

Richard Thompson, Editorial Director, MEED

12:30 – 14:00

Networking Luncheon for VIP Shippers and Guests (Pre-purchased tickets only.) Sponsored by Sarjak Container Lines. 14:00 – 14:50

Risk Management: Handling Projects in Post-Conflict Regions All projects take planning and require thoughtful risk avoidance, but working in post-conflict regions amplifies normal concerns and escalates others. Destroyed infrastructure, scarce equipment and services such as banking, personnel safety, security costs, the increased challenge of finding local partners: these issues will be discussed by our team of experts, who are deeply familiar with handling post-conflict projects in the Middle East and Africa.

Tina Benjamin-Lea, Logistics Manager, SNC-Lavalin

Darrell Gifford, Managing Director, Agility DGS Logistics Services Company

Alberto Pittaluga, Director, ALE Middle East

Martin Rudd, Senior Vice President, Commercial, Constellis

MODERATOR:

Scott Wilcox, CEO, Sicuro Group

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My Niche or Yours? The Evolving Industrial Project Supply Chain How strictly should project transport supply chain players define their roles? Project forwarders are buying vessels and warehouses, while carriers arrange for land transport and land transporters arrange for cargo storage. How much overlap is optimal, how should risk be allotted, and is ‘niche creep’ good, bad or simply inevitable? MODERATOR:

Lars Greiner, Commercial Manager, F.H. Bertling Logistics Erik Hutter, Global Head of Marine Chartering–SVP, Panalpina

Denis Bandura, Managing Director, BBC Chartering Mideast

Dikran Hanonik, Transportation Management Center Manager MEA, ABB

16:00 – 16:30

Networking Break (Pre-purchased tickets only.) Sponsored by Almajdouie.

16:30 – 17:20

Seminar: Will Online Shipping Platforms Lead to a Digitized Project Industry? Is the project cargo transport industry ripe to adopt digitization, including online shipping platforms? The industry may need to move towards more ‘commodification’ – difficult in such an idiosyncratic industry – to truly embrace such digitization. What are the benefits and drawbacks? Our presenter, who has developed one such online platform, will address these questions.

Alexander Varvarenko, Founder and CEO, ShipNEXT

17:20 – 17:30

Closing Remarks Janet Nodar, Content Director, Breakbulk Events & Media

TUESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY

15:00 – 15:50

WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY

08:00 – 16:00

Registration/Exhibition Hall Hours 10:00 – 10:30

Networking Coffee for VIP Shippers and Guests (Pre-purchased tickets only.) 10:30 – 10:45

Opening Remarks Janet Nodar, Content Director, Breakbulk Events & Media

10:45 – 11:20

Capital Project Outlook for the GCC Where are the growth markets? What factors are affecting capital projects? We hear an overview of the region’s seemingly ever-growing oil and gas projcts sector, delivered by Terry Willis, Regional Director, EIC.

Terry Willis, Regional Director, Energy Industries Council

11:30 – 12:20

Case Study: Kuwait’s Project Environment Kuwait is investing some $115 billion in capital projects through 2020, including a massive refinery project, Al-Zour, that will double Kuwait’s refining capacity to 1.4 million b/d. Handling cargo such as the 800-metric tonne columns needed for this refinery presents scores of challenges, but our panel of industry executives is uniquely expert at moving the heavy-lift, out-of-gauge cargo essential to building these game-changing projects. MODERATOR: Mohammad Jaber,

COO, Agility Abu Dhabi PJSC; Regional Project Logistics Director, Agility MEA, Agility Project Logistics

Sameer Parikh, Director, Lift & Shift India

Matteo Pollara, Logistics Director, Petrofac

Edward Talbot, General Manager, ALE Middle East

Sune Thorleifsson, Head of Projects, SAL Heavy Lift

Networking Luncheon for VIP Shippers and Guests (Pre-purchased tickets only.)

14:00-14:50

Seminar: Managing Remote Project Teams Cost is ever important, and a useful way to reduce costs is to outsource work to remote teams – be they sub-contractors or a sub-office of your own organisation. This presents challenges and difficulties for project managers. Here, Project Manager Mandar Apte discusses the challenges, risks and opportunities of working with remote teams.

Mandar Apte, PMP Project Manager, TechnipFMC

15:00-15:50

Closing Forum: Is A Talent Gap Hurting the Project Industry? Many observers of the project logistics industry are concerned by a perceived ‘hollowing out’ of experienced project logistics practitioners. Just how challenging is it for EPCs and project owners to find the level of talent and experience they prefer, whether for their own teams or with their subcontractors? Is this a self-inflicted industry wound, the result of indiscriminate downsizing during the downturn? And is it difficult to attract new entrants into project logistics? Our forum will discuss these issues. Chris Kent, Global Projects Director, Pentagon Freight Services PLC Randa Hakim, Regional Fulfillment & Logistics Leader, GE Gas Power Systems

15:50 – 16:00

Closing Remarks Janet Nodar, Content Director, Breakbulk Events & Media

Paula Boast, Partner, Construction Engineering & Projects, Charles Russell Speechleys LLP

WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY

12:30 – 14:00