Career Talk

Ts. Hj. Ramli Amir is a thoroughbred port man, having first joined Sabah Ports Authority in 1973 and never looked back. He started as a Cadet Asst Traffic Superintendent. Rose through the ranks to Human Resource officer, Personnel Manager, Company Secretary, Assistant General Manager looking after the Administration and Finance and becoming General Manager in 1998 serving until privatization of the port in 2004. He joined Sabah Ports Sdn Bhd as Senior General Manager until 2006.
He graduated with a professional diploma in transport and followed it up with a law degree obtained from Middlesex University, in United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport in Malaysia and is currently its President.
He is advisor to several companies both in Sabah and in the Peninsula. He is a director of MDS Consultancy company based in Kuala Lumpur. He is a columnist with New Sabah Times for a number of years now writing on issues relating to the supply chain industry.

Capt. Ramesh Raj is part of the SHELL Shipping & Maritime APME (Asia Pacific Middle East) team based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. His is currently the East Malaysia Marine Technical Advisor. He is also a part of the South East Asia MTA Team supporting Downstream businesses and the primary Maritime focal point for East Malaysia businesses (including Shell MDS) and Brunei Shell Marketing.
He is a Master Mariner graduate of Malaysia Maritime Academy and has 12 years sailing experience under his belt ranging from offshore vessels to foreign going tanker vessels. He hails from Kota Kinabalu and enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and recreational diving with his spouse.

Mr Nair has more than 15 years of experience in the oil & gas and maritime sectors where he worked for major energy companies in various technical and commercial roles, which include trading and shipping businesses in global energy markets.

He represents KASI Group who are specialists in the execution of port and terminal projects including dry bulk, crude oil petroleum, LNG, containers, marinas, breakwaters, approach channels with an emphasis on validation of port design, risk management and maritime modelling and simulation.

Prior to KASI, Mr Nair was part of the Olefins Trading & Shipping desk for INEOS who are a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. INEOS comprises 17 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 64 manufacturing facilities in 14 countries throughout the world making it the world’s third largest chemical company with sales today around US$47 billion. His role encompassed technical and commercial management of loading/unloading, transhipping and terminal operations of petro-chemical supply chains throughout Europe covering logistics of gas carriers, tankers, gas barges, and rail tank cars.

Mr Nair holds an honours degree in Maritime Business and Management and is a member of The Nautical Institute, UK as well as the Royal Institute of Navigation, UK. He has also successfully completed a Naval Architecture course with Lloyds Maritime Academy, UK.