After an amusing weekend in Paphos, we returned to Nicosia ready to dive back into our business and academic endeavors. In the morning, we met with the ship management company, Fleet Management Limited and in the afternoon, we attended lectures about cryptocurrency and forecasting. Fleet Management Limited (FML) is the only ship management company in…
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Day Eight: A Day at UNIC
We spent the day at the University of Nicosia today, hearing from Fleet Management Limited and listening to two wonderful lectures from UNIC faculty. The director of FML Ship Management in Cyprus, Mr. Sunil Kapoor, started by giving us a nice overview of the company overall. This is the only ship management company in Cyprus…
The Metaverse Will Consume Society As We Know It
Today, we sat in on a panel with a ship management company and attended lectures for blockchain and forecasting. The ship management company focused the most on supply chain management in their presentation out of the three presentations. They play the essential role of moving large quantities of products and materials across the world, taking…
Buying Some Bitcoin After Today
Despite our relaxing weekend, it was time to get right back to businesses this Monday. We had a full slate that required us to leave the hotel at 9am and spend the entire day at the University of Nicosia. Today consisted of 3 meetings: a conference with Fleet Management Ltd, a lecture on blockchain and…
Getting Back to Business with Shipping, Blockchain, and Forecasting
This weekend was a relaxing change of pace, but today it was time to get back to business with a meeting and two lectures. The morning started with a quick bus drive back to the University of Nicosia where we had a business meeting with Fleet Management Limited (FML). FML is a ship management company…
Day 8: In the Classroom
Today we spent our day back at the University of Nicosia listening to guest speakers. The first speaker was from a ship management company called Fleet Management Limited. As another part of the small scale supply chain that makes up the transportation element of the larger, global supply chain, Fleet is in charge of staffing…
Crypto Day
Today we spent the day at the University of Nicosia to listen to 4 different speakers. The first 2 speakers were from Fleet Management Company, which is a company that manages and provides seafarers for cargo ships. They talked about how sailing is a necessary industry because it can traverse water and carry tons of…
Another Round at UNIC
All of today’s activities took place at the University of Nicosia. The first people to speak were people from a company called Fleet Management Limited. They are a shipmanagement company with a branch located in Cyprus. They manage over 600 ships around the globe. The mother company claims to be the second largest shipmanagement company…
A Bit of Bitcoin
We spent Monday at UNIC attending meetings and listening to lectures. Our first meeting was with Fleet Management Limited (FML). They are a ship management company that manages over 35 ships in Cyprus and over 600 worldwide. FML does not own these ships; they provide crew, maintenance, and help with operation. They have put effort…
Lectures and More Lectures
Today, we spent the entire day at the University of Nicosia (UNIC). While at the university, we had a meeting with representatives from a fleet management company and some lectures from a professor at UNIC and its CEO. The company that we met with does not own any of their own ships. Their job is…
A day at UNIC
We spent the entire day at UNIC learning about Fleet Management, Cryptocurrency, and Forecasting. The first meeting was with Fleet Management Limited, one of the largest third party ship management companies managing over 600 diverse types of vessels. In 1996 they started off with only 13 vessels and now they have over 600. The pandemic…
Forecasting my Week in Cyprus
Today was full of learning! We arrived at the University of Nicosia early in the morning for our first meeting with Fleet Management Limited(FML). Two of their representatives gave informative talks regarding the role their company plays in the shipping industry. Fleet Management Limited is the fastest growing shipping management company on the island of…
Day 7: A Relaxing Beach Day
This blog is a bit of a shorter one because it did not have any cultural or business visits. Instead, many people within the group went to the beach in the morning before we transferred our stuff from our overnight stay in Paphos back to our hotel in Nicosia. At the beach, a large group…
Day 6: Culture in Paphos
Today, we checked into our hotels in Paphos for our weekend trip. Afterwards, we visited the Kourion Archeological Site, Petra tou Romiou, the Paphos Mosaics, and the Tomb of the Kings. The Kourion Archeological Site is a beautiful site of an excavated Roman bath house in addition to a Greek amphitheater that was later turned…
Spending the Day by the Water
Disregarding the sunburn I got, yesterday ended up being a very fun and relaxing beach day. After sleeping in for a bit we woke up and went straight to the beach. I noticed not many people were in the water, and I recalled our tour guide saying that many people in Cyprus do no start…
Blockchain and Bitcoin
Today is the start of our second week in Cyprus. We start back up business meetings today and today they are held at the university of Nicosia. Our first business we talked to was Fleet Management Limited. They are one of the fastest growing ship companies in the island and specialize in managing ships. They…
Eighth Day in Cyprus: Lots of Lectures
Our eighth day started off at 9am with a short bus ride to the University of Nicosia (UNIC). There, we listened to a lecture from the head of Fleet Management Limited’s (FML) Cyprus branch. As with any ship management company, they act as a middleman between the owner of the ship and the client. Since…
Lectures, lectures, lectures
We had a company visit this morning with Fleet Management Limited at the University of Nicosia followed with two lectures in the afternoon. One of them was about cryptocurrency and the other one was about blockchain and forecasting. Starting with FML, they have been operating for 28 years and are the 2nd largest third party…
Rocks at the Paphos Beach
After our first week in Cyprus, we finally got a day to relax by the beach. I have enjoyed attending business meetings and visiting many sites in Cyprus, but waking up at eight am for the past couple of days has not been easy (especially with the jetlag), so by Sunday I was happy to…
Day 5: Vasiliko
Today, we visited two companies: Vitol Tank Terminal Vasiliko (VTTV), a subsidiary of Vitol Tank Terminal International (VTTI), and Vasiliko Cement Works. Both of these companies are in the Vasiliko area and met us in the Cement Works building, where they had a joint meeting with us. VTTV is a company that deals in storing…