Riviera’s Tanker 2030 conference celebrated outstanding contributions to the maritime sector through two prestigious awards recognising operational excellence and transformative leadership
Eastern Pacific Shipping received the Tanker Operator of the Year Award 2025 sponsored by DNV, while Professor Lynn Loo, chief executive of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), earned the Tanker Industry Leader Award 2025 sponsored by Bureau Veritas.
The Tanker Operator of the Year Award recognises operators demonstrating outstanding performance, innovation and leadership over the preceding 12 months. Eastern Pacific Shipping’s selection acknowledges the company’s commitment to safety, operational efficiency and its progressive adoption of environmental technologies across its diverse tanker fleet.
Eastern Pacific Shipping was lauded as an exemplar for operational standards in an increasingly complex regulatory and commercial environment. The award presentation during the conference opening session established the tone for two days of technical and strategic discussions, examining how operators can navigate transformation while maintaining excellence.
Prof Loo’s Tanker Industry Leader Award recognises an individual whose contributions over the past year have delivered outstanding significance to the tanker sector. The citation for the award described Prof Loo as “an engine of change allowing every tanker operator to breathe easier about the future. The maritime sector needed someone to step out of the lab, walk the docks and engineer practical pathways forward. She brings intellectual rigour and entrepreneurial spirit.”
GCMD also used the conference to announce a new US$35M Energy Efficiency Technologies’ fund. This is the world’s first vessel retrofit fund using pay-as-you-save repayment mechanisms, which directly links payments to verified fuel savings, addressing split incentive issues between owners and charterers while providing accessible capital for efficiency improvements.
