Our crew

Uday sailed from cadet to captain on VLCCs, product and chemical tankers, Suezmax and OBO carriers, container and heavy-lift ships and livestock carriers. Ashore he has run shipping operations from shipbuilding orders to trading, logistics and raising capital, as CEO and Chairman.

He set up a shuttle container line in Scandinavia, later sold to the AP Moller/Maersk Group, and formed and led joint ventures with partners such as NYK, Grindrod-Unicorn, CMB, Chemoil, Mercator, Markem, Interhavens, Eimskip/Samskip, Univan and Heidmar.

Uday has also served on the boards of dredging companies and short-sea shipowners. He helped build Royal IHC in Holland, was a founding director of OMCI, the management company of OMI Corporation, and advised the Port of Rotterdam and ECT for a year.

Vladimir started at sea as a junior officer and cadet on bulk carriers and tankers, and holds a ship's mate certificate. He has a master's degree in naval architecture (University of Zagreb, 2003) and one in maritime economics and logistics (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2018).

From 2002 to 2015 he was Shipbuilding Department Director at Iceberg/Douglas Industrial Technologies. He ran projects as manager, assistant and supervisor, covering production, outfitting, design, classification and procurement. The ships included asphalt tankers, Ro-Ro tankers, a passenger ship, a ferry, product tankers and a semi-submersible rig. One of them won the Royal Institution of Naval Architects' Significant Ship of 2005 award. He also advised on the privatisation of state-owned shipyards in Croatia.

From 2015 to 2020 he coordinated new projects at Womar (Netherlands) BV, from first idea to completion.

Soumitro sailed from cadet to captain on tankers, general cargo vessels, container carriers and luxury liners. After two decades at sea he moved ashore into vessel operations, fleet personnel and HSE at major shipping lines, and served as DPA, MR, CSO and PFSO.

He has been Port Captain and General Manager at one of Asia's largest tanker terminals, and is a qualified VLCC pilot.

In 2021 he joined Uday Yellapurkar to set up EEC's operations in the Middle East. He still teaches whenever his schedule allows.

Satyajit set up EEC's presence in Bahrain and played a key role in certifying shipyards to the highest recycling standards. He also built joint ventures between EEC Middle East and major entities in the UAE and Bahrain, and works to match steel mills with scrap from ship recycling.

Before EEC he was Head of Product and Business Development at Skybits Technologies, where he led development of AI software for India's largest bank, using drone images. He was also COO and co-founder of Go Marine Services, where he researched predictive maintenance for a major oil company's maritime division and proposed drones for pilotage, corrosion detection and oil spill detection.

He has implemented ISO 9001, 14001 and 18001 management systems at several organisations. His current focus is decarbonising steel-making with scrap from ethical ship recycling.