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Atul is an experienced Seafarer with more than 35 years of experience in the maritime industry. Has held diverse portfolio of function ashore and spearheaded the Marine department (Marine Operations, Vetting, TMSA, Marine & Safety, Incident Investigations) and Environmental department. He has held senior management position and was also part of Leadership Team.

After successfully completing 18 years of sea service (7 Years of command experience) he ventured ashore.

During the early years ashore, his focus was to ensure vessel’s run to the highest safety standards, ensure compliance to oil major vetting standards. Worked with the training department to develop, enhance marine related courses, VIQ awareness training, bridge team management, advanced senior office ship handling simulator course. Also assisted in developing 3D Animated Marine Safety videos.

Atul was key in developing environmental compliance department from scratch and successfully implementing an environmental compliance plan under US Department of Justice. The prime focus was improving environmental compliance, implementation of environmental standards, engineering requirement, open reporting systems and formulation of non-retaliation policies etc which were all in line with the USCG Department of justice Environmental compliance program, Providing shore side support for sea staff on environmental issues including awareness. Maintained a close cooperation and interaction with all Interested parties (Court appointed monitor (CAM), Third-Party audits (TPA))

In the 3-year period (2017-2020) arranged and reviewed close to 400 environmental compliance forensic audit on board vessels.

One key development was implementing environmental e-tracking initiative for Waste, Garbage Management module & Electronic Marpol seal log.

• Waste Management: It is a comprehensive tool to monitor Annex 1 waste (oil and bilge) generation, disposal onboard the ships, monitors the day by day and monthly sludge / bilge build ups as well as the percentage ratio of the fuel consumed versus the sludge generated. System would alert shore of any potential issues related to the fuel in use, machinery leakages and equipment capability and efficiencies of handling the disposals. This information is also available on the mobile devices.
• Garbage Management: It records all the categories specified as per the MARPOL regulations for sea and shore disposal and incineration and ensures compliance with both MARPOL and company policies.
• Electronic Marpol seal log:  The System maintains, monitors & control all the environmental equipment related to overboard discharges, including lines and valves for the oily water separator (OWS), sewage system, bilge system, portable pumps, hoses to monitor seal locking and opening. With regular data synchronization the office has a complete overview of the vessel seal status including the history and effectiveness thus promoting safe sea environment and preventing pollution from ships caused by operational or accidental causes.

Due to these e-initiative, the company was recognized for the efforts in Environmental compliance and won 2 awards in 2019.

• Tanker Shipping and Trade Environmental award 2019 recognised the company, individual or institution that had found a solution to an environmental challenge or problem within the tanker industry. The adjudicating panel of industry experts were impressed with the implementation of a mobile based application that was designed to monitor the performance of its entire managed fleet.
• Green4 Sea Dry Bulk Operator Award recognized a ship operator of bulk carriers that demonstrated environmental excellence and performance

Atul has spoken in various industry conference and presented paper on vetting (Winning with Sire & Managing Sire in a large fleet) at OCIMF inspector course in Singapore and during Oil Majors conference.

Atul has been an active member of Intertanko and was a member of the Vetting & Environmental committee from 2013 and 2016 respectively. His work with the Vetting committee involved improving all aspects of ships inspection, vetting, PSC and participated in relevant industry work groups in ensuring bridging the gaps between various stakeholders which helped to promote safety and quality standards within the industry. In terms of Environmental committee Atul contributed with Environmental issues, Environmental compliance Ballast water management, Environmental Performance and Monitoring, Waste Management and MARPOL Annex V, etc during his tenure.

Atul started his sailing carrier on 30 Oct 1984 when he joined TS Rajendra for his pre-sea training and completed his cadetship with Zodiac, Ratnakar shipping. He joined Wallem Shipmanagement Hongkong as a 3rd officer in 1989, took over command in 1998 and continued to sail till mid 2005 with a command experience of 7 years on board Wallem Tankers.

Atul is a member of following committee & council

• Member of National MARITIME safety at sea council (MNSSC) Singapore since 2017. Working closely with MPA on issues related to Navigational safety in Singapore straits. The MNSSC spearheads the drive for maritime safety on a national level and ensures the sustainability of safety efforts. The council also serves as an advisory body to the MPA on maritime safety.
• Member of the SSA / MPA Safety of navigation working group. The group was formed between MPA and shipping community to raise levels of navigational safety in and around Singapore port waters.

Some key milestones / Initiatives

• Actively involved in implementing the Shipboard Management system (SBM) on board a VLCC and become the first vessel to be awarded the Shipboard management certification in mid-1992
• During sailing day as Master was actively involved in ensuring the vessel meets the Oil Majors standards and used the inspector questionnaire (ROVIQ) to ensure vessel was run to highest standards of safety.
• Involved in the owner’s quality safety initiative and was instrumental in giving key feedback on the key issues related Human element which was eventually introduced into the program.
• Was a part time instructor with a training institute in Delhi and conducted training courses like Ships Simulator, value added course for a Singapore based company (Command Course, Refresher course for master, Navigational course for Master, Cadet to officer coursers)