Bunkerspotted August/September 2022

Ignacio Oleaga of Empresa Minera del Caribe SA poses beside a bunker barge with Sergio Rodrigues and Gibelis Maria Aranda of Petrolera Nacional SA - Terpel Panama

Ignacio Oleaga, Eduardo Asmar of Morini Dominicana and Gibelis Maria Aranda, Sergio Rodrigues and Sandra Rojas Gutierrez of Cuba’s Empresa Minera del Caribe visit an oil storage facility during the Panama course

BUNKEREXPERIENCE students learn about fuel testing at the Bureau Veritas laboratory in Panama

Course Director José Digeronimo (right) relaxes with students during the BUNKEREXPERIENCE course in Panama

Nigel Draffin teaches his Introduction to Shipping and Bunkering Course in Las Palmas ahead of MWLPA

Petrospot’s Managing Director, Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, discusses Maritime Week Las Palmas in a live interview on Radio Ser of the Canary Islands

Pablo Sansó Gil, Head of Sales - EMEA at Minerva Bunkering, with his colleague Jenifer In Hsueh Lema

Raising the roof: Minerva Bunkering sponsors a spectacular sunlit evening reception overlooking the Port of Las Palmas

Eugenio Gomez of Hamilton y Cia converses with José Mayor, President of OnePort Canarias, at Cepsa’s Maritime Week Las Palmas evening reception

Dream Team: Rhys Berry, Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Peter Whitehouse, Laura Betteley, Hannah Jeacock and Rosa Holland hard at work during Maritime Week Las Palmas

Kristina Okolnikova, CEO of Ukrainian maritime agency Leverans Baltic OÜ, enjoys Addax Energy’s MWLPA Opening Reception at the Santa Catalina hotel with Alfaship’s Iryna Krasnikava, Susana Broco of Galp Energia, Petrospot’s Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Selene Rodriguez of TESS Canarias and VT Group’s Claudia Beumer

A packed audience during Maritime Week Las Palmas 2022 underlines a strong interest in this strategically important mid-Atlantic port

Top level political support: Nasara Cabrera Abu, Director General of Economic Affairs with Africa, Government of the Canary Islands; Antonio Morales Méndez, President of Gran Canaria Island Council; and Francisco Trujillo, Director of the Port of Las Palmas, take part in the opening ceremony of Maritime Week Las Palmas 2022

Lourdes Trujillo, Professor of Economics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, discusses the environmental and training challenges facing the maritime industry in the Canary Islands

Matilde Asian González, former Spanish Secretary of State for Tourism, uses Maritime Week Las Palmas to promote international trade in the maritime sector

Iryna Krasnikava, Commercial Manager of Alfaship, shares a Women in Maritime panel at MWLPA with Claudia Beumer, Global Account Manager of VT Group, and Emilce Iglesias, a Senior Bunker Trader at Minerva Bunkering in Las Palmas

Mads Bjørnebye, Manager of Bunker Services at Teekay Shipping (UK) Ltd, shares his insights in Las Palmas about buying bunker fuels in West Africa