THE INDUSTRIAL PANEL OF EXPERTS

Representatives from the following organizations have formed the Industrial Panel of Experts (IPE):

Shipping Lines:

Carnival (Tom Strang)

Color Line (Rolf Kjaer)

Royal Caribbean International & Celebrity Cruises (Harri Kulovaara)

A. P. Möller-Maersk A/S (Jan Otto de Kat)

Ship yards:

Aker Yards Finland (Kai Levander)

Fincantieri (Paolo Frandoli)

Meyer Werft (Werner Hummel)

Classification societies:

Bureau Veritas (Pierre Besse and Jon McGregor)

Lloyd’s Register (John Carlton)

Governmental authorities:

Dutch Maritime Administration (Kees Metselaar)

Maritime and Coastguard Agency MCA (Andrew Scott)

Swedish Defence Materiel Administration FMV (Staffan Sjöling)

Ship design and consulting companies:

Deltamarin Contracting (Markku Kanerva)

Globtech Marine AB (Per Fagerlund)

MariTerm AB (Peter Andersson)

UBITEC B.V. (Björn von Ubisch)

MacGREGOR (Jan-Ove Carlsson)

The purpose of the IPE is to assist the consortium in arriving at the objective and realistic explanation of the mechanism of the loss of MV Estonia, by offering expertise and opinion on the Consortium’s interpretation of the results obtained during this investigation.