Capt. Ashok Srinivasan MBA

Manager, Department of Maritime Safety and Security at BIMCO

Speaker

Ashok is educated as a Master mariner, dynamic positioning officer and marine lead auditor. He also holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Copenhagen Business School.

As a Manager, Maritime Safety and Security at BIMCO, Ashok is responsible for coordinating BIMCO’s initiative with International Maritime Organization (IMO) and various other stakeholders on a variety of technical and regulations related matters specifically on Navigation, Fire Safety, LSA, Ballast water management, Tanker safety to name a few. He also represents BIMCO at IACS(International Association of Classification Societies) as the vice-chair of Advisory Committee, which advises IACS on quality matters.

Ashok is an experienced Master with 18 years of experience in the maritime sector. He started his career with A.P.Moller Maersk and has sailed on a variety of ships including containers, car carriers, oil tankers (crude and product), but mainly on gas tankers (LPG and LNG) in the maritime shipping (13 years) and platform supply vessels & cable layers in the offshore sector (3years) where he worked as a Master and Senior Dynamic Positioning Officer (SDPO).

Prior joining BIMCO, he has been working to improve the quality, safety and security of ships at V.Group from 2016 to 2018. He is certified as a lead auditor and integrated marine auditor by LRQA (Lloyds register quality assurance). He has also prepared vessels for external class audits (ISM, ISPS and MLC audits), and industry vetting inspections such as OCIMF-SIRE, CDI inspections.