Judging Panel

Arthur Bowring is the managing director of the Hong Kong Shipowners' Association and part time maritime arbitrator. He has a broad shipping background, which includes several years at sea as a deck officer, working as a ship surveyor for Lloyd's Register, acting as an oil and dry cargo chartering and owning broker, and freight trader for a major international trading house, handling marine insurance placing and claims, and working as a consultant, handling investigative work, claims and project management.

Steen Brodsgaard Lund is executive vice president and Head of Asia Pacific Region for Germanischer Lloyd, overseeing all classification activities of GL from India to China, Korea and Japan down to Australia and New Zealand. Mr Lund is playing a leading role in strengthening GL's growth in the strategically important Asian market and building continuously stronger relations with shipyards, owners and suppliers across the region. He spent much of his earlier professional career as an executive within AP Moller-Maersk.

Khalid Hashim, managing director of Precious Shipping of Bangkok, comes from a long family line of professionals engaged in the dry cargo tramp markets. Precious Shipping was born in 1991 and is today one of the largest owners in the world in the small handy size sector with 21 existing ships and 22 ships on order.

Kong-Gyun Oh is chairman and chief executive officer of the Korean Register of Shipping and current chairman of Association of Asian Classification Societies (ACS). Mr Oh has served in various senior positions within the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs of the Republic of Korea for more than 28 years.

Marlon Rono is the head of the Human Resource Group of the Magsaysay Group of Companies. Marlon is actively involved in maritime industry associations’ efforts to promote seafaring as a career of choice. He is the immediate past president and a current director of the largest maritime employment association in the Philippines, the Filipino Association of Mariners' Employment. Marlon also served as Chairman and currently a director of the Philippine Joint Maritime Group, which is composed of all stakeholders of the Philippine maritime and manning industries.

Martin Rowe is managing director of Clarkson Asia. Based in Hong Kong for the past sixteen years and a shipbroker for 22 years, he has extensive experience of the Far East shipbroking market, having been involved in a number of the larger vessel sale & purchase transactions in the region in recent years.

Beng Tee Tan is the group director of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). Ms Tan is actively involved in promoting and developing Singapore into a premier International Maritime Centre. Prior to her appointment, Ms Tan was the director of Corporate Group in International Enterprise Singapore.

Noboru Ueda is the recently elected chairman and president of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, a 42-year veteran of the Society, having joined the company in 1969. Mr Ueda joined ClassNK after graduating from university, serving in a number of assignments in Japan, before later returning to the head office where he worked in the Development Department. In 1980, Mr Ueda was tapped to establish the Seattle Office in the US, where he served as the General Manager until 1985.

Tim Wilkins is Intertanko's regional manager Asia-Pacific, managing Intertanko's Asia representative office in Singapore and representing member's interests in the Asia-Pacific region. He is Secretary to Intertanko's Asian Regional Panel and is responsible for the association's regional issues. Mr Wilkins also fulfils the role of environmental manager in charge of coordinating and managing Intertanko's environmental agenda.