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L'Atmella, Tarragona (Spain)

Barcelona Y Alrededores, España

Occasional collaboration on professional /STCW) and sportive courses

Breda, The Netherlands

Responsible for ensuring that all contracts are effectively executed, providing management and guidance to the Operators to implement and monitors all commercial contracts by vessels employed by the Company and/or appointed by external partners, my responsibilities includes: To guide the Operators if a problem arises to seek for the most cost-effective solution where applicable and ensures that the Operators monitor vessels’ performance. To supervise the quality of the services rendered meets all contractual terms and conditions, handling disputes and makes improvements where necessary, in close cooperation with all relevant departments to meet or exceed customers’ expectations as well as give timely and accurate feedback on clients’ wishes and complaints to the departments or persons concerned. To ensure that any customer’s complaint is dealt with in a timely and proper manner and systems are amended to avoid reoccurrence. To support the Chartering Manager with the preparation and implementation of a commercial policy, including marketing plans and (financial) budgets to improve and extend present business based on annual targets, providing routing advice, informing about the suitability of the ports and about the suitability of the vessel to meet the contractual requirements (vessel performance)

Castelló, España

Main task was to analyze the company costs and incomes structure and deliver a cost control procedure and a business plan to improve incomes and reduce costs, also implemented a KPI dashboard and Operations Procedures survey and improvement proposal.Also cooperate as Advisor in other Globalvia projects as railway multimodal Terminal.

I joined Bergé Marítima in Cartagena (Spain) and I’ve moved in November 2009 to the role of Manager of Tarragona branch office in charge of stevedoring (general and bulk cargo), Car Terminal (Carport), ships’ agency and custom’s brokerage agency. Bergé Tarragona operates a bulk and general cargo Stevedoring Company and a Car Terminal with annual budget up to 14MM €.

Madrid, España

In charge of global agreements for Upstream’s Logistic and Stock Management coordination with Regional, Country and Project Bussines’ Units.

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

K5 is a private port and logistic base for Oil&Gas Upstream, specialised in general cargo, containerized and heavy cargo located in Malabo, main customers Exxon Mobile, Hess, Noble Energy, Marathon Oil, Bechtel, Devon and their vendors and also operate merchant vessels for United Africa Lines, Safmarine and Project Cargo vessels like BBC, CEC, Jumbo, etc.

Barcelona, España

Operations and Equipment Control Manager / Head Office Barcelona• Member of the Management Committee.• In charge of setting up the Country Operation & Logistic Dept. for China Shipping Container Lines.• Coordinate vessels operation in all Spanish ports, in 2004 we handle 108,000 TEUs mainly in Valencia and Barcelona.• Managing empty container logistics in whole Spain with container depots in Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Sevilla , Valencia and Zaragoza.• Direct coordination with Line HQ for Equipment Control and Operation Management, providing suggestion to optimize service and costs, increase of traffic 158% in four years.• HSE, Quality and Security (ISPS & C-TPAT) implementation and management for logistics and vessel’s port operation procedures.

Barcelona, España

Ship-planner / Barcelona• Stowage instructions for ZIM mainliners operating at Barcelona that is the West Med’s HUB and connection port between ZCS (Israel -USA), SAMEX (South America) and INDIZIM (IPBC) lines.• Coordinate loading/discharge operation with Terminal.• Coordinate containers’ transhipment operation.

Barcelona, España

Mba, Master

Msc, Navigation And Maritime Transport