The 1^st CSN Greece Crewing Conference was an exceptional event with 23guest speakers and three panel discussions with an overwhelming attendance of over 210 people. We had 282 registered delegates out of those 214 attended the conference throughout the day and at a time we had 192 attending to a presentation. A success considering that it was the first CSN Greece Crewing Conference. Thank you for investing the time and resources to help recognise and appreciate our delegates and provide informative knowledge for the industry.

We would like to particularly thank Henrik Jensen for chairing the conference and Theophanis Theophanous and Eurico Ortiga for addressing our first Crewing conference in Athens.

To our sponsors we would like to express my gratitude for making this conference become true, in particular our Platinum Sponsor KVH, Gold Sponsor Oceanic, Silver Sponsors PwC, Elvictor Group, Greywing and Wartsila. Special thanks to our Charity Sponsor Mastermind Shipmanagement and Charity Foundation ELEPAP and the rest of the Sponsors Cassiopeia Shipmanagement, Danica Crewing Specialists, Pivotel and Antaeus Travel as well as Maritime Economies and MASO Strategic for their support. We really couldn’t run this event without you, and your input was invaluable.

The conference was under the auspices of the Propeller Club and supported by HELMEPA, WISTA Hellas and AMMITEC and we want to express our sincere appreciation, to all of them.

The Podcasts are available under our YouTube Channel 

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Theophanis Theophanous – Managing Director BSM Hellas: The most important issues that we face nowadays is the shortage of Crew

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Eurico Ortiga , Senior Policy Advisor, Social & Legal Affairs – ECSA: It is important to have more training facilitating capacity building for a national administration and to make a safe working environment but also safety at seas.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Henrik Jensen, CEO & Founder – Danica Crewing Specialists: A lot of things is changing in shipping industry and new technologies are coming and for that you need a certain IQ so we are testing people for knowledge for behaviour and for IQ.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Maria Skiathiti Regional Director, Commercial Partner Lead, EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa)-Microsoft: There is a talent around and that’s why we are coming up with different reality approaches how to approach how to recruit and how to retain talent and develop talent this forces us to think out-of-the-box.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Cleo Papadopoulou , Partner/Chief Learning Officer – PwC: PWC do a lot of transformational leadership, the second-generation steps in to take over the business and actually helping the second generation succeeding that is it’s very rewarding for us.

1st CSN Greece Crewing conference Podcast with David Tropp Hag , Vice President, EMEA Sales – KVH: A significant contributor to the success of agile plants has been the complete package it is.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Demetris Petrides, General Manager Support Services – Oceanic: Oceanic primary service is the food provision to the vessels.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Konstantinos Galanakis, CEO – Elvictor Group, Inc. Crew Managers: Cohesion can be good based on training, correct scheduling of crew changes and of promotions.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Captain Theodore Lalas, Captain Theodore Lalas, Fleet Operations Manager-IRI/The Marshall Islands Registry: What needs to be improved is the connectivity for the crew specially for the ocean-going vessels.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Dimitrios Fokas, Training Manager – Angelicoussis Shipping Group: Our main focus as an industry should be on how to improve the development and our seafarers and the office staff in our companies.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Andromachi Demetriou, 2nd Officer – Stena Line: Greeks and Greece has a strong legacy from the shipping industry.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Konstantina Aravantinou, Sales Manager / Marine Power Sales – Wärtsilä Greece S.A.: The crew needs training to adopt the new technologies and the new fuels.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Vasilios Lamaris, Manager, Decarbonization Modelling & Services, Sales Support & Development-Wärtsilä Greece S.A.: We are making our first steps in terms of decarbonisation modelling and services which means that in the near future in the next year these activities will be more and more intensive.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Nick Clarke, CEO – Greywing: There is a lot of manual processes incurring and I think crew matrix planning is a great example.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Antonios Chasapis, General Manager – Minerva Ship Management: we need to make the seafarers feel that they are part of the family due to their work the company will expand.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Kyriakos Hadjikyriakou, Managing Director – Oceanic: Having good connectivity on board allows the office to support in different ways.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Amalia Marcou, Crew Director /HR Manager – Enesel Dry S.A: Big challenge is always to recruit people and we need to train people and to open training centres to educate people in CRS career.

1st CSN Greece Crewing Conference Podcast with Dr. Iliana Christodoulou Varotsi, Senior Legal Consultant and Lead Industry Trainer: We need to coordinate the efforts of the international shipping community to make sure that firstly seafarers are regarded it’s a key worker and secondly that there are conditions working and living conditions are insured to the standard.

On behalf of the whole Cyprus Shipping News team, thank you for attending the 1^st CSN Greece Crewing Conference and looking forward to seeing you at our next events.