During 40 years E.Tschopp, the Swiss Maritime Expert , has served in the shipping industry and has worked on and dealt with many projects and topics for different owners , customers and organization. Within the scope of this homepage its impossible and not practical to list all of them. Some highlights are nevertheless listed below.
Its not the intention of this list to be used as reference but rather for the records and information . References however can be handed out upon request.
Company / Organisation |
Place |
Services /management rendered by ET |
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Achille Lauro Group Group |
Naples / Monaco |
Supporting the taking over of the remaining Lauro fleet into Acomarit SA management |
Acomarit Services Maritimes SA prior to the merger with Vships Monaco , Acomarti SA was the largest Ship Manager with captain Giorgio Sulser as founder and german |
Geneva |
Chief Engineer and technical superintendent 1973 - 1978 , instrumental in creating the technical office. Technical manager / fleet director 1988 - 2002 for a fleet of up to 50 Vessels of various types and sizes (2000 - 406'000 tdw) |
Admiralty Academy |
St. Petersburg |
Selecting senior Ship Personal |
B.Skaugen Shipping AS shipbroker |
Oslo |
technical consultancy provided for NB projects |
Banque Paribas |
Geneva and Piraeus |
Assisted the banque (who became mortgagee in possession) in arresting 3 tankers in Egypt and managing the vessels later until the vessels were sold |
Bnavi |
Carrara Italy |
Consulting jobs for the management of their fleet of vessels |
DEUTZ |
Kiel and branch offices in Rotterdam |
Instrumental in solving severe fuel injection problems having caused internal engine damages |
Enzian Shipping |
Schlieren , Zürich |
Providing senior staff for the group's superintendendency office |
Euroceanica |
Geneva / Genova /London |
as technical manager / fleet director of Acomarit /VShips Switzerland handling part of their fleet under full management contract |
Fritzen (owner Thyssen Bornemisza Group) |
Emden Germany |
Ship management , consulting . ET supporting the merger between Fritzen Schiffsagentur and Suisse Outremer AG Zürich |
Frontline |
Norway |
as technical manager / fleet director of Acomarit /VShips Switzerland handling part of their tanker and OBO fleet under full management contract |
Hamburgische Landesbank |
Hamburg |
Ship inspection on behalf of prospective buyer |
Hanseatic Lloyd AG |
Bottighofen / Uttwil Switzerland |
Providing senior staff for the group's superintendendency office |
ITF International Transport worker Federation GLOBAL MARINER |
London |
Global Mariner. The "Global Mariner" was a converted 160 m long cargo vessel with a clear political message against substandard shipping. ITF entrusted Acomarit Geneva as the vsl's manager and ET was project manager for the technical conversion and the technical management of the vessel. Global Mariner toured around the world for 18 months |
MAK |
Kiel |
Instrumental in solving inherent cavitations problems in MAK Diesel engine's fuel injection system |
Marfret |
Marseille |
instrumental in Technical management of their fleet of vessels |
Marfret Co Maritime |
Marseille |
Ship management , supporting technically general average and particular average insurance case |
Massoel SA |
Geneva |
Technical Management of their fleet of vessels (bulk carriers) , project manager of various new building program in China and Japan |
Massoel S.A. |
Fribourg Switzerland |
Ship Management services for their fleet |
Navigomes |
Spain |
instrumental in Technical management of their fleet of vessels (RORO , Car carriers) |
NYK |
Tokyo |
Full Management of 2 RORO vessels , instrumental for the technical management |
OSEC |
Osec Business Network Switzerland , Zürich |
Paper presentation "The Shipping business and its particular demands on suppliers of machinery , goods and systems" held in Zürich August 2004 for Swiss suppliers of marine equipment , OSEC working on behalf of SECO |
Osprey Ship Management |
Bethesda USA |
coordination of taking over and into management of two ULCC |
Petrobras Brazil |
Rio de Janeiro |
Management of vessels , Tanker Inspection |
Roland Marine Inc. |
New York |
New building projects consulting , tankers , OBO's , bulk carrier , Portugal , Spain , |
Schweizerisches Seeschiffahrtsamt |
Basel / Bern , Switzerland |
Coordination and logistic services in connection with New building under Swiss flag |
Seascope SA Geneva |
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as technical manager / fleet director of Acomarit /VShips Switzerland managing their ULCC (406'000 tdw) SS Marine Atlantic and SS Marine Pacific for 6 years |
Seawave Agencies Ltd |
London |
Ship broker , Mr Kousov as German |
SECO |
Bern |
See OSEC |
Setaf Saget |
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instrumental in Technical management of their fleet of vessels |
Setaf Saget / Maritime Group Bourbon |
Nantes |
as technical manager / fleet director of Acomarit /VShips Switzerland handling part of their fleet under full management contract |
SGS Society Générale de Surveillance SA |
Geneva |
sea service with their former vessel Henri G. , later using SGS control services worldwide |
Soc. Des Armateur Suisse / Swiss Ship Owners Association |
Switzerland |
Member and chairman of the technical commission of the Swiss ship owner association |
Society Generale de Surveillance |
Geneva Switzerland |
Sea services as engineer on their Multi purpose vessel Henri G |
Sosema SA |
Bursinel , Switzerland |
Technical management of SS Red Seagull (ex ESSO Tokyo , 400'000 tdw ) for 7 years |
SOVCOMFLOT |
Moscow |
Assisting Management and taking over into western flag of Sovcomflot's former fleet under Soviet / Russian flag |
Suardiaz |
Madrid |
Ship management and consultancy to this Spanish Ship owner |
Suisse Atlantique SA |
Lausanne |
1st assistant engineer on bulk carrier , later ship inspection on their mv Romandie on behalf of a prospective buyer |
Suisse Outremer AG Thyssen Bornemisza group owned by the late Baron Heinrich Thyssen von Bornemisza |
Zürich |
10 years as suptd. and senior suptd. handling tankers, OBOs , bulk carriers ,reefer vessels .Project manager for numerous new buildings ; OBO ,bulkers ,incl super tanker Settebello built by SETENAVE Setubal |
Swiss Maritime Navigation Office |
Bern |
As member of the technical committee of the Swiss Ships Owners association , supporting the Swiss Maritime Navigation Office |
Swiss Maritime Navigation Office |
Basel / Bern , Switzerland |
Consultancy works and services |
Swiss Ship Owners Association |
Lausanne / Renens Switzerland |
Consultancy works and services |
Tanksystem SA Bulle |
Bulle Switzerland |
Conducting marketing studies for new products |
Thyssen Bornemizca |
Monaco , New York , Zürich etc |
See Suisse Outremer AG |
TORM Ship owner |
Copenhagen |
Ship management and consultancy to this Danish Ship owner |
Trollship Geneva |
Geneva |
instrumental in Technical Management of their fleet of RORO |
UNICOM Ship Management Services (offspring of Sovcomflot , Moscow) |
Cyprus |
Assisting the building up of the Shipping company dealing with former Sovcomflot ships , as allocated for 5 years to Acomarit Geneva |
VELA Bahrain |
Bahrain |
Ship Inspection of chartered ULCC tankers |
VShips Cyprus |
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VShips Glasgow |
Glasgow |
close cooperation in developing management tools for the Vships Group of companies |
VShips Switzerland SA |
Geneva |
Full management of a fleet of up to 50 vessels of any size and type 2000 - 406'000 tdw |
Wilton Fijenoord ship yard with 500'000 tdw dry-dock |
Rotterdam , Holland |
ET acting as agent for their Dry Dock services / facilities in Rotterdam , while engaged with Suisse Outremer |
Zürich Reederei AG (MIGROS Group) |
Zürich |
Chief engineer on their general cargo vessel mv Sunamelia |