SABIT

World Trade Center
World Trade Center of New Orleans
of New Orleans

You are invited to a reception and briefing to meet 17 maritime executives from Russia, Ukraine, and Turkmenistan

The Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) program is hosting a delegation of 17 maritime executives from Russia, Ukraine, and Turkmenistan visiting the U.S. during May. They will be in the New Orleans area May 15-19. These executives primarily represent ports on the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Russian Far East, and the northwest region of Russia. Their program includes visits to port facilities and port authorities and additional meetings with port-related companies and organizations such as equipment manufacturers and their representatives, ocean shipping companies, maritime software companies, marine repair facilities, stevedores, and companies from other relevant maritime sub-sectors. Other areas of interest to the visitors are IT and automation, the automated commercial environment, and environmental management systems for ports. Lifting and hoisting equipment such as forklifts and trucks, or material handling equipment for coal, lumber and forest products, grain and metals are also relevant to the cargoes that their ports are handling.

Thursday, May 15

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

- Free Admission
(advance registration required)
- Free Hors D'oeuvres
- Free parking
- Cash Bar

29th Floor Executive Office, WTC
2 Canal Street, New Orleans

DELEGATE LIST

RUSSIA
Oleg Almakeev
Head of Commercial and Marketing Department
Vostochniy Port JSC
Vrangel, Nakhodka, Russia

Nikolay Brede
Director, Ekonomiya Terminal Facility
Commercial Sea Port of Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk, Russia

Oleg Bysov
Head, Legal Department
Rosmorport
Moscow, Russia

Sergey Filkin
Head of Construction Department
Rosmorport, Azovo-Chernomorsk Branch
Sochi, Russia

Konstantin Karelin
Director of Operations
Petrolesport JSC
St. Petersburg, Russia

Alexander Karpov
1st Deputy General Director
Magadan Commercial Sea Port
Magadan, Russia

Dmitry Kulbitskiy
Deputy General Director
Ust-Luga Project Engineering Company
St. Petersburg, Russia

Sergey Maslennikov
Commercial Director
Maritime Port of Olya
Astrakhan, Russia

Aleksandr Pilipets
1st Deputy Director
CJSC Morcenter – TFC
Moscow, Russia

Vitaliy Sever
Chief Financial Officer
Commercial Port of Vladivostok
Vladivostok, Russia

Aleksey Tkachenko
Project Management Chief
Commercial Sea Port of Vladivostok
Vladivostok, Russia

TURKMENISTAN

Ashirkuly Geldiyev
Sector Manager
Cabinet of Ministers
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Akmammet Puhanov
Deputy Director, Technical Department
Turkmenbashi International Sea Port
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan

UKRAINE

Eduard Khizhnyak
Head, Small-scale Mechanization Department
Transinvestservice, Ltd.
Yuzhniy, Ukraine

Oleg Yevreinov
Acting Director, Free Trade Zone
Odessa Commercial Sea Port
Odessa, Ukraine

Valeriy Zhelyazko
Head, Foreign Economic Relations
Transinvestservice, Ltd.
Yuzhniy, Ukraine

Natalya Zhuravlyeva
Senior Marketing Specialist
Sintez Oil
Odessa, Ukraine

Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT)
Providing a unique forum to build U.S. – Eurasian partnerships, SABIT helps American organizations create new relationships and strengthen existing ties with Eurasian partners, and customers. Relationships founded on mutual trust are the most significant aspect of business in Eurasia. The linkages formed through SABIT serve as a basis for new business development and lead to tangible results. While SABIT training programs generate commercial results at home in the United States, the impact abroad is equally beneficial. SABIT has an alumni network of over 4,000 leaders from business and scientific communities that are leveraging their SABIT training to drive market-based reforms, develop civil society institutions, and promote economic growth in Eurasia. For more information on SABIT, click here.

Sponsoring Organizations

City of New Orleans

Louisiana Economic Development

New Orleans U.S. Export Assistance Center

Special American Business Internship Training Program

World Trade Center of New Orleans

Founded in 1943 as a not-for-profit membership organization, the World Trade Center of New Orleans was the first of what are today 309 WTCs in 88 countries that service more than one million businesses engaged in international commerce. WTC New Orleans' mission is to add wealth and jobs in New Orleans and Louisiana through international trade, port development, and allied activities.

This program is free of charge but advance registration
is required by May 13, 10:00 a.m.

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