L to R: Paolo and Cesare d’Amico
CMA Shipping is about to happen March 21-24 on the Hilton Stamford in Stamford, Conn., and as soon as once more a spotlight of the occasion would be the Commodore Award presentation on the Gala Dinner that wraps up the three-day program.
This 12 months will see a primary of its type twin award with the Italian cousins Paolo and Cesare d’Amico, who’re respectively Executive Chairman and President of CEO of d’Amico Società di Navigazione SpA, each being named Commodore.
They will succeed present CMA Commodore and Eagle Bulk Shipping CEO Gary Vogel and be part of an inventory of distinguished trade leaders that features Ole Skaarup, who acquired the primary award in 1990 and was adopted by Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, George Livanos, Phil Loree, Thomas Moran, Gregory Hadjieleftheriadis, Dr. Helmut Sohmen, Gerhard Kurz, William O’Neil, Richard du Moulin, Per Heidenreich, Marc Saverys, Frank Tsao, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Peter Georgiopoulos, C. Sean Day, Torben Jensen, Morten Arntzen, John Fredriksen, Capt. Wei Jiafu, Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, Angeliki Frangou, Øivind Lorentzen, III, Peter Evensen, Robert Bugbee, Capt. Panagiotis Tsakos, Paddy Rodgers, Jack Noonan, Sabrina Chao, John C. Hadjipateras, Lois Zabrocky and most not too long ago Gary Vogel.
Paolo d’Amico graduated in 1978 in Economics from Rome University (La Sapienza). He joined d’Amico Società di Navigazione S.p.A. in 1971, with explicit concentrate on the product tanker facets of the enterprise. In 1983 joined the Board of Directors of d’Amico Società di Navigazione S.p.A., the holding firm of the d’Amico Group. and since 2002 has held the workplace of President. He has held a number of directorships and management roles throughout the group and in different nationwide and worldwide firms. Currently he’s additionally Chairman of INTERTANKO (the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners) and could be very a lot on the forefront of Italian and world delivery, which was additional depicted when in 2013 he was awarded the honorary title of Labour Knight (Cavaliere del Lavoro) by the President of the Italian Republic.
Cesare d’Amico graduated from Rome University (La Sapienza) in 1982 with a level in Economics. He joined d’Amico Società di Navigazione S.p.A. in 1976 within the liner division and developed the enterprise till it was bought in 2002. In 1993 he launched the dry bulk exercise. From this, he has gone on to steer the group’s dry cargo enterprise as its present CEO overseeing a enterprise unit that operates a 50-strong fleet starting from mini-cape to helpful sized vessels. Since 1988 he has served as CEO of d’Amico Società di Navigazione S.p.A.. Much like his cousin, he continues to play a large number of roles in management positions all through the group and past, together with serving on the Executive Committee of Confitarma (the Italian Confederation of Shipowners) and as Chairman of the Standard P&I Club.
