{"id":2279,"date":"2019-01-19T21:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/?page_id=2279"},"modified":"2019-01-19T21:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:32:17","slug":"george-procopiou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/shippingfinance2019\/speakers-2019\/george-procopiou\/","title":{"rendered":"George Procopiou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. George Procopiou is the founder of Sea Traders SA, Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd, and Dynagas Ltd. <\/p>\n<p>Holding a degree in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Mr. Procopiou has managed over the years a shipping fleet in excess of 500 vessels since first entering the shipping business in 1971 by purchasing one third of a vessel. <\/p>\n<p>Since 2002, he has built more than 120 vessels at shipyards in Japan, South Korea and China. <\/p>\n<p>In 2005 Dynacom was awarded Tanker Company of the Year award by Lloyd\u2019s List. <\/p>\n<p>In 2012 Dynagas made history, when the company\u2019s LNG carrier OB RIVER became the world first LNG Carrier to transit and carry a cargo through the Northern Sea Route. <\/p>\n<p>In 2013 Mr. Procopiou was named Greek Shipping Personality of the Year by Lloyd\u2019s List. <\/p>\n<p>In 2015 Dynagas received Statoil\u2019s \u201cWorking Safely With Suppliers\u201d operator award for safety performance above industry standards. <\/p>\n<p>In June 2017 Mr. Procopiou was presented with Seatrade\u2019s \u201cLifetime Achievement Award\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Procopiou has served as Chairman of the North of England P&#038;I Association and is currently Chairman of the Greek committee of Bureau Veritas, Chairman of CCS Mediterranean Committee, as well as a member of the Greek committees of DNV GL, Lloyd\u2019s Register and ABS.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. George Procopiou is the founder of Sea Traders SA, Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd, and Dynagas Ltd. Holding a degree in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Mr. Procopiou has managed over the years a shipping fleet in excess of 500 vessels since first entering the shipping business in 1971 by purchasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1123,"featured_media":2281,"parent":1429,"menu_order":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2279","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2279\/revisions\/2282"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}