The Founder

Ranjit M Kamat, BBA, MICS

Time to give back to the industry that provided ample opportunities – for over 40 years – to handle operational issues in custody transfers of commodities, making financial impacts on global level.

  • Professional in leadership and general management
  • Excellent voice, diction and verbal skills in multilingual environment
  • Track record in quick learning, problem identifying & executing different aspects in refinery planning, inspections, logistics, measurements, loss control and risk management in all modes of bulk transportation; namely Marine, Air, Rail, Road and Pipelines.

Ranjit Kamat, a Merchant Marine with vast and diverse experience spanning multiple decades, has successfully traversed hundreds of thousands of nautical miles. He has tirelessly found his way through some of the trickiest and busiest sea ports as a Captain.

With fluency in Spanish, English, and other regional languages, Kamat is a well-heeled traveler, negotiator, and mediator. During his career spanning multiple decades, Kamat has addressed several complex disputes and succeeded in offering amicable solutions.

As a Captain of many ginormous merchant vessels ferrying oil, gas and other fluids, and cargo for shipping giants, Kamat developed a keen eye for detail. He has proven to have a strong sense of judgment, intuition, and an unwavering fair mind to offer quick and thorough conflict resolutions.

No cargo ship is too large or too bulky for this veteran seafarer. Years of negotiating through international waters has granted Ranjit Kamat a diverse skillset that’s exceedingly rare and valuable.

Ranjit Kamat has helped dozens of businesses save millions of dollars and countless hours which would have otherwise been wasted in litigations. Be it a cargo ship, a barge, or a tug, Kamat knows them well and can vet them with confidence. No matter the location of a terminal or a deep-sea port, Kamat knows them like a back of his hand.

Moving forward, Ranjit Kamat plans to use his experience for the benefit of the shipping industry as a trustworthy confidant who can assess, observe, investigate, arbitrate, and mediate as and when necessary. Although a globetrotter, Kamat has not only maintained but also deepened his ties with his home-county India and helped promulgate its beautiful and timeless culture in the United States and beyond.

Summary

  • Professional in leadership and general management
  • Excellent voice, diction and verbal skills in multilingual environment
  • Insight and intuitive perceptions of underlying problems in management
  • Proven negotiating skills in dealing with Global clientele
  • Excellent voice, diction and verbal skills in multilingual environment
  • Team player and leader
  • Track record in quick learning, problem identifying & executing different aspects in refinery
    planning, inspections, logistics, measurements, loss control and risk management in all modes of bulk transportation; namely Marine, Air, Rail, Road and Pipelines
  • Sound in Technical and Management skills

Proven leadership role in country management of Independent Inspection Companies with several hundred employees – turned around the business ion profitability, revenue, market share and compliance within under one year.

Member of API Committee on Petroleum Measurement (COPM) for 25 years.

Extensive Experience in overseeing custody transfer movements to identify and minimize losses, providing definitive remedies to create ongoing procedures Master Mariner with shipboard and shore experience in ship/barge vettings, terminal vettings, audits and ship to shore transfers.

Experience

Global Measurement Solutions

Founder

June 2021 – Present (2 years 10 months), Houston, Texas, United States

  • Measurement Solutions
  • Marine and Commodities’ Custody Transfers
  • Cargo Contaminations
  • Mediation and Arbitration
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Expert Witnessing
  • Due Diligence

Prax Petroleum Ltd

Senior Trading Operator – Americas

September 2018 – June 2021 (2 years 10 months), Houston, Texas

Responsible for custody transfer operations – America’s

ARB Midstream

Director of Commercial Operations

August 2017 – July 2018 (1 year), Houston, Texas Area

Overseeing, monitoring and executing all custody transfer operations

  • Auditing Marine Terminals for ‘Fit for Purpose’
  • Marine Chartering and freight trading
  • Commercial and Marine Operations – voyage optimization, inspections, testings
  • Demurrage analysis – creating and handling claims
  • Loss Control – simultaneously overseeing multiple marine movements Accomplishments:
    – Achieved time-chartered vessels’ utilization to over 90%
    – Reduced custody transfer losses to 0.1% – fell below industry average of 0.25%
    – Managed and optimized 10+ charters on monthly basis, including marine operations
    – Managed activities like decanting, H2S removal and blending of crude oils
    – Managed & executed commercial operations all custody transfer movements of all custody transfer movements through inspection & testing with independent inspection companies

Colonial Oil

Crude Oil Trading & Supply – marine and commercial operations

August 2016 – July 2017 (1 year), Houston, Texas

Overseeing physical operations after traders’ deal is completed, including

  • Marine Chartering
  • Marine and commercial operations – voyage orders, inspections and testings, etc
  • Crude Blending
  • Crude Train receipts into shore tank or directly to marine dock
  • Loss Control – overseeing multiple movements simultaneously Accomplishments:
    – Singlehandedly managed from cradle to grave – monthly execution of 10+ marine charters and scheduling of 30+ ‘Inspections & Testings’
    – Optimized charter hire costs by improvising and creating floating storage aspects, backhaul cargoes, on board blending, etc.
    – Physical blending of fuel oil on board marine equipment, with close understanding of analytical constraints
    – Expert in minimizing physical losses in challenging situation – buying on BOL and selling on outturn
    – Created procedures and successfully supervised unloading of trains with heated railcars to shore tanks as well as directly to marine vessels at the dock

Viksniks Consultants inc

Vice President

November 2015 – September 2016 (11 months), Houston, Texas, USA

Providing loss control solutions to industries dealing with Commodities
Details at www.viksniks.com

Intertek India - Commodities Division

Country Business Line Leader

October 2012 – June 2015 (2 years 9 months) Mumbai, India

  • Marine Chartering
  • Inspections and testing of various hydrocarbon and agricultural commodities
  • Effectively turned around the business scenario in under a year and continue on growth/profitability path in a structured manner
  • Achieved 300% increase in operational profitability and 120% in market-share. Responsible for growth in profitability, market share, revenue and safety/compliance
  • Developed Operational Matrix, Standardized reporting procedures, inspection report formats, inspector training matrix and job tracking system for offices across the country
  • Over 300 employees under direct supervision in multiple locations

Phillips 66

Loss Control Lead

2001 – 2012 (11 years), New Orleans and Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA

  • Within ‘Planning & Economics’ group of two refineries in Louisiana.
  • Standardized approach to address custody transfer movements through all modes of transportation including Land, Rail, Pipeline and Marine; effectively identifying and improving areas of weakness
  • Program development to identify and minimize losses on Pipeline Transfers
    through Line Balance
  • Responsible for reducing losses in pipeline crude receipts from 0.6% o 0.04%
  • creating initial annual savings of $14,000,000+
  • Program development to quickly quantify demurrage at the end of each Marine Movement in terms of both time and $$
  • Program development and implementation to identify, mitigate and minimize losses on all custody transfer movements across the dock and pipelines
  • Refinery Mass Balance & inventory management
  • Support gasoline and distillates blending operations

CITGO Petroleum

Marine Superintendent

1997 – 2001 (4 years), Paulsboro, New Jersey – covering East Coast of USA

  • Part of commercial supply and transportation group
  • Senior Port Captain, overseeing all Marine Operations at two refineries and 10+ marine terminals on US East Coast
  • Demurrage reduction by over $10,000,000 at the end of first full year by implementing unconventional approach in marine operations and custody transfers
  • Proficient in Marine Spill Response, marine equipment vetting procedures
  • Marine operations at HOVENSA, St Croix
  • Overseeing and handling custody transfers on VLCCs, Aframax and Suezmax vessels at St Croix

Intertek

Country General Manager

1987 – 1995 (8 years), Mexico

  • Responsible for entire business-line for the country for major International Inspection company
  • Inspections and testing of various hydrocarbon and agricultural commodities
  • Effectively doubled the business level in two years and continue on growth / profitability path in a structured manner

Education

Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers

MICS (Member of Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers), Ship chartering, Shipping Practice, Marine Insurance, Economics of Sea Transport

LBS Nautical and Engineering School, Mumbai, India

BS, Ship Stability, Ship Construction, Cargo Operations, Physics, Electronics, Nautical Science