Ram K Kumar is a qualified Master Mariner (F.G) bringing in 25 years of maritime experience in both public and private sector domains. He is progressively involved in Ship Management, Port and Harbour administration, Maritime Safety and Environment Protection, Maritime Crisis and Casualty Management. He is also a trained OPRC-IMO on-scene commander, OSR spill response manager, marine incident investigator and former lay prosecutor to the government of Singapore.
Ram as the former Head of Marine Environment and Safety Department in the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA); where part of his responsibility was to manage marine emergencies, casualty investigations, salvage, collision, grounding, and oil/chemical spill clean-up operations, search and rescue (SAR) and shipboard fire incidents and subsequent prosecution, claims and compensations in the capacity of Head of Operations.
He also specialises in commercial salvage and S&P contract management and provides marine consultancy involving ship to ship cargo transfer, ship care for disabled vessels, removals of wreck/underwater obstruction, diving/underwater services, towage, heavy lifts, brown water pipelaying, ship/rig recycling projects to business entities.
Besides technical advisory, his passion has been Business Development and Coaching and natural when it comes to managing projects and stakeholders spectrum.