Sponsors

COSTA CROCIERE

Costa Cruises is Italy's largest tourism group and Europe’s no. 1 cruise company. For more than 60 years its ships have plied the seas of the world, offering the best in Italian style, hospitality and cuisine. Its fleet has a total of 14 ships, all flying the Italian flag; together each year, they offer the chance to visit some 250 separate destinations in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean, South America, the United Arab Emirates, the Far East, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Two more new ships are due to enter service by 2012.

www.costacrociere.it

CONSORZIO SAVONA CROCIERE

Cocktail Reception Sponsor

Consorzio Savona Crociere was established in 1996 to cope with the increasing cruise traffic in the port of Savona and today it operates at the 'Calata delle Vele' cruise terminal, offering luggage handling services for arriving/departing passengers. The Consortium also carries out ship handling loading as well as any other auxiliary service for cruise ships. Consorzio Savona Crociere is equipped with a covered passenger gangway that can be adapted to any ship, luggage trolleys and hoisting facilities.

www.parkingsavona.com

D'AMICO SOCIETA DI NAVIGAZIONE

Founded in the fifties, d'Amico Societa di Navigazione is an Italian shipping company which operates successfully worldwide. The family tradition dates back to the thirties when Ciro, Salvatore and Antonio d'Amico grew the company. Over the years, the d’Amico family has led the Italian shipping industry through important changes with their constant presence as members and chairmen of Confitarma. Today, Paolo (son of Ciro) and Cesare (son of Salvatore) lead the d'Amico Group with the same devotion and passion, ensuring continuity of the traditional entrepreneurial values. The d’Amico Group has one of the most modern fleets of dry bulk carriers and tankers worldwide. The Group reinforced its global vision with offices in Dublin, London, Monte Carlo, Singapore, Vancouver and Stamford (USA) in addition to its historical head and branch offices of Rome and Genova. In 2007, the tanker division of d'Amico successfully listed d’Amico International Shipping on the Milan Stock Exchange. Today d'Amico concentrates on the tanker transportation of refined oil products, and transporting dry commodities such as grain, fertilizers, steel, steel pipes and forest products. d’Amico Societa di Navigazione is ranked amongst the leading international players, operating a fleet of 90 vessels.

www.damicoship.com

UNITRAMP SRL SHIPBROKERS

Since 1970, the Company has been actively involved in Chartering, Sale and Purchase, Ship-project financing, Shipping commercial agency operations and consultancy services. Unitramp is a family owned (Frulio) company, a long-standing member of BIMCO and Confitarma. Chartering: Primarily focused on the spot market for Dry Cargo Panamax, Post-Panamax, Capers and Handy/Supramax b/c tonnage, as well as on long term contracts/projects and fixtures, often originated in connection with its S&P/New Building Dept. The Company's Drycargo chartering department focuses on many important Italian and foreign Shipowners and Traders/Charterers; but the chartering daily activity also covers the segment of Container, RoPax, Cruise and Tanker Ships. S&P: the Company is very active and fully dedicated in offering the best service, at highest professionalism and deepest market knowledge to Clientele. This is the secret to success that allowed the Company to finalize a huge number of newbuildings sale contracts in China and the Far-East, as well many second-hand and scrap deals. Ship-Finance Projects: whenever requested, the Company also provides assistance in obtaining financing/loan facilities in lieu of the excellent and special relationship with some of the primary Italian and German shipping Banks.

www.unitramp.it

RINA SPA: 150 years of service

RINA is one of the oldest classification societies and certification companies in the world. Established in Genoa in 1861 to serve the marine industry, today it spans the globe as a multinational and multi-faceted company, sharing its knowledge and experience through a wide range of services. RINA has specialised in safety, environmental and quality issues and has continued to invest to provide shipowners, designers and yards with tools to help them reduce operating costs while maintaining quality. In particular, RINA is performing a high-profile role in the sphere of a new proactive approach to eco-compatible shipping through specific tools for industry, including voluntary certifications with the means to implement new solutions and innovative procedures so that the ship can obtain the best results in terms of both environmental protection and also performance.

www.rina.org

PREMUDA SPA

Premuda is an International shipping company founded in 1907 and listed since 1918 in the Italian Stock market, in this respect coming first within the Italian shipping community. Operating, on worldwide basis in the field of maritime transportation of bulk commodities with a fleet, in service and under construction, of modern and top-classed ships - tankers, dry bulkers, FPSO - Premuda successfully merges the tradition of competence and stability with a modern and looking-ahead approach to such a specialized trade. Premuda competes among others in the current challenging economic contingency and is pleased to contribute in the recognition of relevant deserved awards.

www.premuda.net

P.L. FERRARI SRL

Over the past year P.L. Ferrari has further established its position as the world's pre-eminent independent P&I broker upgrading our unrivalled services and continuing to reinforce our principle of putting our clients at the centre of everything  we do. Delivering this through 70 dedicated, multilingual staff in 6 European locations we have further enhanced our services to both local and  international clients by * Personnel investments in Italy, * Opening our London branch office  providing even stronger market focus, * Opening our Istanbul branch  serving this key shipping centre, *Innovative products, embedded claims service and industry leading P&I market analysis.

www.plferrari.com

CAMBIASO RISSO MARINE SPA

Cambiaso Risso Marine, with its main office in Genoa and further centres of excellence in Italy, Athens, Singapore and Bergen, is a leading insurance broking and consulting service provider in hull & machinery, shipyards and yacht fields. Today handles about 70% of the Italian fleet along with a well-established international portfolio where it boasts a substantial part of the Greek fleet. During over 60 years of activity in the insurance field, Cambiaso Risso has grown in professionalism and consciousness of a market niche which requires a product thought and tailor-made on clients’ needs, granting the highest quality standard. Cambiaso Risso canvasses the market in order to obtain the most competitive quotations and offers a wide range of proposal from Italian and worldwide insurance market. It has a complete vision of marine environment and provides the best insurance solutions to guarantee its clients an efficient answer and to satisfy their demand of reliability. The expertise gained from its day-to-day claims handling grants the owners a unique assistance in the most complex situations. Cambiaso Risso Marine is a Lloyd’s Correspondent.  

www.cambiasorissomarine.com

eni

eni is a major integrated energy company, committed to growth in the activities of finding, producing, transporting, transforming and marketing oil and gas. With global operations in 79 countries it holds positions of leadership in the primary international markets.
eni is supplying directly fuels and lubricants to shipowners and traders. Operations are mainly located in Italy, where eni is present, with its logistics, in all main ports. eni supplies marine fuels products matching ISO 8217-2010 standard. In the marine lubricants business eni has developed a worldwide network in main international ports. eni grants post sale technical assistance to all customers with FAST (fast analysis system testing), a procedurized analysis system for lubricants used on board. eni has implemented and maintains a quality management system which complies with UNI EN ISO 9001:2008.

www.eni.com

DBA Lab SpA

DBA Lab SpA is DBA Progetti Spa’s ICT company (www.dbaprogetti.it).
Since 2005 DBA Lab has been developing web-based software platforms for the automation of design processes, construction, operation and management of networks and technological infrastructures concerning telecommunications, logistics, roads and highways.
Being part of an engineering group with over twenty-year experience, guarantees DBA Lab S.p.A. an in-depth knowledge and the necessary know how for the development of software platforms for the electronic management of information, data and documents exchanged between all parties involved in the various phases of the life cycle of the infrastructure.
DBA Lab S.p.A. is now developing a Port Community System, LISy®, the first Italian web-based collaboration platform specifically designed to manage Port Communities and available with a pay per use plan.

www.dbalab.it