Our client AMS in December 2015 acquired a new small ship, the MILO Length 20m 55, in Marseille. During the trip to its new home-port of St Nazaire, while off Portugal, she was contacted to assist a Portuguese vessel which had a fire in the engine room.
They evacuated the 6 man crew, put out the fire and then towed the 28m. fishing vessel to the nearest Port. The MILO is not beautiful, but is highly efficient.
Our 12th Prizewinner is a force to be reckoned with. Not only did she win our prize, but she also won the Prize offered by Shell Petroleum for the very best paper on tanker chartering by a candidate in the Institutes exams. We are very proud!
Alba studied at Catalonia Polytechnic. Where she studied Marine science/ and qualified a Spanish Merchant Navy Cadet. She also went on to obtain a further degree in Maritime Studies. Since 2010 She has worked as a Ship Operator and Shipbroker.
At at the end of a tough day in Le Mans an number of us were let off and we were able to do a couple of tours around the track.!
Watched by the Chairman (by the door without a helmet).
Peter and his Driver went around the very wet course at over 200km/h.
Our 11th prize-winner is SUSANA PINHO and is our first female Portuguese prize-winner.
She has a Masters degree in Logistics and Port Management, and has completed the Institute’s Professional Qualifying Exams.
She is with Trana Shipping Agents in the Port of Aveiro (Gafanha da Nazaré) just south of Porto. She has been in shipping for 7 years.
2015 She is now Director with Operfoz.
Prize givers and winners at the ceremony held in Trinity House which was followed by a superb cocktail party. Peter is sitting third from right and Virginia Lijacio (2013) is standing just in front of the gentlemen at the back on the right.
Virginia Lijacio. Our 10th Prizewinner successfully passed four of the Professional Qualifying Examinations this year. She is based in Barcelona and worked with Spanmark Chartering SL since 2008.
Virginia is in regular contact with our 2008 Prizewinner Camille Philippe, who is now in Holland. Shipping is a surprising business!
When you are based in Saint-Nazaire and are looking for a new work boat, then you visit the Southampton Workboat Show.
Thibaud Daguet aged 23 fits the profile of our prize-winners perfectly. He is studying a Masters in “Shipping-Trading“. He found the time to commence his ICS Exams.
From the Paris Region, he has worked during the holidays with Shipping companies on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean and Montreal in Canada. He is also the founder of the St Nazaire Institute of Technology (Part of Nantes University) sailing association and already has a very respectable yachting career.
On the Right is Dave Barrett from the ICS who awarded his Diploma. On the left is Anne Laure Marriott who is responsible for the University programme. Thibault was awarded his prize at the Nantes Propeller Club dinner.
In the larger group the gentleman to the left of Dave Barrett is the University Director of Management Studies, the three students all obtained passes in their ICS exams.
2015 Thibaud DAGUET works in Bulk Shipping in Paris
Sébastien Renaud won the ICS Prize in 2011. He is a French Merchant Navy Officer and he also has a Masters Degree in Naval Architecture. He is now a fully qualified Chartered Shipbroker.
We attended the Baltic Chairman’s Cocktail Party 2012 with Sébastien Renaud and his wife.
2015 Sébastien RENAUD now works for a Japanese Bank in London in Shipping Finance.
1563 is the date just above Peter’s shoulder. It was in this year that Sir Thomas Gresham (Queen Elizabeth’s financial advisor) founded his bank. Peter joined it in 1963. After a couple of years he left and ended up years later becoming a Member of the Baltic.
