RINA’s Hellenic Technical Committee meeting, organised by RINA Hellas and conducted on 15 March at the Yacht Club of Greece, gathered its members to facilitate marine industry discussion. As RINA’s focus for 2018 and the years to come is on digitalization, Giampiero Soncini, RINA Marine Innovation Senior Advisor, presented the big picture of the relevant challenges for the marine industry.
The Co-Chairmen of the Committee, Mr. Theo Baltatzis, General Manager of Technomar Shipping Inc. and Mr. Akis Tsirigakis, General Manager of Nautilus Marine Acquisition Corp., welcomed the new members and explained RINA’s achievements in the last year and the challenges that our industry is facing.
An overview of RINA, its financial results of 2017, as well as its new organization dedicated to five sectors (Marine, Energy, T&I, Industry, Certification) was presented by Stefano Bertilone, RINA EMEA & Italy Marine Business Development Director, with his presentation “Results and future Strategies”.
The technical part of the meeting included information on all the new Rules and Regulations from IACS and IMO presented by Michael Markogiannis, RINA Greece Plan Approval Head.
Further, Alessandro Pescetto, RINA Marine Innovation Sector Head, continued with more details on RINA’s services and strategies in the digital sector by offering a presentation on “State of the art of the digitalization process / RINA’s ideas for the future”.
The technical part of the meeting was concluded with a presentation by Panagiotis Kitsakis, SKF Services & Solutions Engineer, who informed RINA’s HTC members about latest developments regarding “Predictive maintenance: old idea, new technologies”.
