Panos Zachariadis is a Mechanical Engineer (BSc) and Naval Architect and Marine Engineer (MSE) from the University of Michigan with 40+ yearsexperience in shipping. He served for years as Marine Superintendent in New York, after periods of shipbuilding supervision in Japan and sea service inbulk carriers and oil tankers.
Since 1997 he is Technical Director of AtlanticBulk Carriers in Greece and, since 2004 al shipping regulations (e.g.GBS, PSPC, FSA) and the prevention of others (e.g. double hull bulkcarriers). In cooperation with major Korean shipyards he has applied numerous energy saving ideas, some of which have become industry standards.
He is a Fellow member of the American Society of NavalArchitects and Marine Engineers, member of Technical Committees of several shipping Classification Societies and the Union of Greek Shipowners, Chairman of BIMCO’s Marine Environment Committee and elected in the Board of Directors of HELMEPA, the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping and MARTECMA.
He has written numerous technical guides, papers and articles and is the recipient of the 2011 Efkranti Shipping Personality award for promoting Greek Shipping internationally, the 2017 Hellenic Shortsea Shipowners Association & Shipping Personality award, the 2017 Lloyd List Achievement in Safety or Environmental Protection award, the 2019 Green4Sea Personality award and the 2021 Lloyd List “Technical Achievement” award.