RINA Cyprus seminar attracts the attention of the Shipping Community in Limassol.

RINA’s 1^st Seminar in Cyprus was organized on the 28^th of May 2015 at the former Carob Mill, the largest listed industrial building in Cyprus built on the west side of the Medieval Castle of Limassol.

The event, that marked also the opening of RINA Office in Limassol, attracted the attention of local Shipping Community and was attended by many technical and operations professionals from many of the Shipping Companies established on the Island.

The guests were welcomed by Mr. Kyriakos Neophytou, the local Manager of RINA’s Office in Limassol, who thanked the participants for their presence and promised more of this kind of events to be organized by RINA in the future.

The seminar was coordinated by Mr. Spyros Zolotas, RINA Area Manager for Greece and Cyprus who briefly referred to the presence of RINA in the area. Cyprus is an important market for RINA and the establishment of a local office in Limassol has been of importance.

The RINA Limassol Office is directly supported by the RINA Area Office of Piraeus that is one of the most important offices of RINA worldwide, especially as regards Marine Activities. It offers 360 degree services to its clients in classification, plan approval, technical support, yachting classification services, ISO certification services and training.

The General Manager for Greece, Middle East and Africa, Mr. Stefano Bertilone, referred to the global presence of RINA Group today and the latest acquisitions of the Group that further reinforce its services provided in the Marine, the Oil & Gas and other sectors. The great spectrum of services provided today by the Group, were lively presented to the participants through the latest RINA corporate video.

The technical and main part of the evening followed with interesting presentations.

Mr. Michael Markogiannis, Manager of RINA Piraeus Plan Approval Center, updated all the participants through a dedicated presentation on the latest developments of Rules and Regulations at IMO and IACS level.

Mr. Matteo Fiori, RINA Container Ships expert, presented "Container ship safety and advanced technical services dedicated to Shipping" with a lot of information on the strength issues of large container ships and the services provided by RINA in this sector, like the Route Specific Lashing and the Hull Monitoring Class notations.

After a short coffee break, presentations were followed on the very important issue of human resources and the training/asessment of seafarers through a dedicated presentation on "Certification of Competency Management systems" by Mr. Paolo Moretti, RINA General Manager Marine and Mr. Alessandro Mura, RINA Academy Senior Advisor.

The attendees were updated on the latest developments as regards the hot topic of air emissions monitoring and a dedicated presentation on "MRV - CO2 Emissions" was delivered by Mr. Alessandro Pescetto, RINA Marine Software Solutions & Ship Performance Monitoring expert.

Mr. Pescetto also presented the solution offered by RINA in the energy management field which is the InfoSHIP EGO – energy governance software suite, a modular system connected to ship navigation equipment, ship automation and other sensors providing a reliable and complete ship energy governance system with real time monitoring on board and ashore.

The technical presentations closed with Mr. Franklin Karkada, Head of Fleet Performance, Innovation & Research at MSC Shipping Cyrpus, who delivered an interesting presentation on “Energy Efficiency and Monitoring”, a result of the experiences gained in this field by the large fleet of his Company.

The Q&A time has been active and many points on the variety of topics presented during the seminar were discussed among the participants and clarifications were given by the RINA experts.

In his conclusions prior to the cocktail that followed, Mr. Zolotas, repeated that this is the first of a series of events that RINA intends to organize in Cyprus with the scope to offer its expertise to the market. The interactive approach to this kind of seminars is important in offering support on the topics of interest for the Industry and in promoting the exchange of ideas that is always to the benefit of awareness._

RINA is a multi-national group which delivers verification, certification, conformity assessment, ship classification, environmental enhancement, product testing, site and vendor supervision, training and engineering consultancy across a wide range of industries and services. RINA Group operates through a network of companies covering Marine, Energy, Infrastructures & Real Estate, Transport & Logistics, Food & Agriculture, Environment & Sustainability, Finance & Public Institutions and Business Governance. With a turnover of around 300 million Euros in 2012, over 2,100 employees, and 140 offices in 49 countries worldwide, RINA is recognized as an authoritative member of key international organizations and an important contributor to the development of new legislative standards. www.rina.org

For more information:

Spyridon Zolotas

RINA Hellas

Greece@rina.org