Singapore Maritime Week (SMW)
is the leading maritime
event in Singapore driven by
the Maritime and Port
Authority of Singapore (MPA).
SMW gathers the
international maritime
community in Singapore for a
week of conferences,
dialogues, exhibitions and
social events in celebration
of all things maritime.
Singapore Maritime week will
will be held until April 22.
The 2016 Terminal Operators’
Conference (TOC Asia) will
be held at Marina Bay Sands
hotel, Rohan Masakorala, CEO
Shippers’ Academy Colombo
has been invited to speak at
this year's conference
technical session where he
will be representing the
Shippers'Academy Colombo and
the Global Shippers' Forum
on the subject of the IMO
new law on verification of
container weights (VGM).
The internationally renowned
conference will attract
industry experts from all
over the world.
He has also been invited by
Lloyd's List and
Containerisation
International to be a
panelist who are running a
panel discussion on the
afternoon of the 20th April
covering topics of immediate
importance to the market
during the Singapore
Maritime Week.
The Panel moderated, by CI
London-based editor James
Baker will include other
speakers which Robbert van
Trooijen, Maersk Line
Asia-Pacific Chief
Executive, Kenneth Glenn of
APL, X-press Feeders Chief
Executive Tristan Howitt,
among others Masakorala is a
former chairman of the Sri
Lanka Shippers’ Council, and
Association of Shipper's
Council of Bangladesh,
India, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka (ASCOBIPS), served as
the first Secretary General
of the Asian Shippers’
Council-ASC- 2009-2012
representing 16 countries in
Asia.
He has expertise in the
areas of shipping,
international trade,
logistics, and transport and
trade facilitation,export/import,
ports and
airports,international trade
policy, and supply chain
management for 25 years.