Huang Guifu
Summary
Senior Offshore Marine Professional with extensive international exposure across Ship & Technical Management, Fleet Operations, Project Management, and Commercial Business Development. Proven track record across vessels for LNG, Oil & Gas, and Renewable Energy sectors, managing diverse fleets, including SSAV platforms, OSVs, OCVs, and Offshore Windfarm vessels. Adept at bridging technical execution with commercial optimisation, managing multi-million dollar OPEX/CAPEX budgets, and building strategic stakeholder relationships globally.
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Work History
Vessels Fleet Manager – International Fleet (Operations & Technical)
CYAN RENEWABLES
09.2025 - Current
- Fleet Operations: Lead and direct day-to-day operations and technical management of the international fleet to ensure safe, regulatory-compliant, and cost-effective performance. Act as the primary shore-based contact for vessel senior management.
- Commercial Optimisation: Develop and execute the commercial shipping optimisation agenda. Translate strategy into daily voyage actions, optimising vessel routing, speed, and fuel consumption to minimise commercial leakage.
- Financial Control: Formulate and manage the fleet’s annual operating budgets, overseeing invoice approvals, procurement strategies, OPEX, CAPEX and insurance claims.
- Technical & Dry-Docking: Prepare engineering specifications, evaluate tender documents, and supervise dockings to maintain tight control over quality, safety, schedules, and costs.
- Marine Assurance & Compliance: Lead marine execution and safety across major offshore wind farm and oil & gas projects (EPIC/T&I), ensuring strict alignment with international HSEQ standards, class, and flag state rules.
- Asset Modifications: Oversee strategic conversions and modifications for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and offshore wind farm support vessels.
- EPIC: Engineering, Procurement, Installation, Commissioning, T & I: Transportation & Installation integrated, turnkey contract requirements.
- Oil Major Relations: Partnered closely with top-tier energy companies (ExxonMobil, Aramco, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips and QatarEnergy LNG) to fulfil demanding project deployment specifications.
Fleet Technical Superintendent / Cluster Head / Centre of Excellence
POSH FLEET SERVICES LTD
11.2021 - 09.2025
- Leadership & Governance: Reported directly to the Senior General Manager of Fleet Services; acted as Head of Department for fleet expenditure approvals.
- Team Management: Led a multicultural regional team of port engineers, captains, and superintendents across Brazil, Singapore, the Middle East, and Asia offices.
- Asset Management: Managed a high-spec fleet of DP3 Semi-Submersible Accommodation Vessels (SSAV), Offshore Construction Vessels (OCV), and Offshore Support Vessels (OSV) for global FPSO/FSO deployment.
- Oil Major Relations: Partnered closely with top-tier energy companies (Petrobras, Aramco, Exxon, Chevron, Shell) to fulfil demanding project deployment specifications.
- Digitalisation & ESG Leadership: Developed and deployed the fleet-wide Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy. Implemented Smart Ship digitalisation notations (SMART I.N.F., M.H.M., S.H.M.) with classification societies.
- Commercial Contracts: Drafted offshore vessel charter party clauses, Sales & Purchasing (S&P) contracts, and formal project proposals for senior executive approval.
- Operational Readiness: Monitored fleet KPIs, including overdue planned maintenance system (PMS) tasks, asset downtime, emergency preparedness, and root cause analysis (RCA) failures.
Vessels Manager & Technical Superintendent
PACIFIC RADIANCE LTD
03.2020 - 11.2021
- Executive Deputization: Delegated to oversee the Ship Management, Technical, and Project departments during the General Manager’s absence.
- Global Coordination: Managed operational personnel and vessel status across Mexico, Mozambique, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Brunei, Thailand, and Indonesia.
- Fleet Oversight: Monitored a fleet of 40 DP1/2/3 vessels (AHTS, PSV, Subsea, Barges) to ensure strict adherence to ISM, ISPS, MLC, OVID, and flag state parameters.
- Technical & Budgets: Prepared dry-docking specifications, managed daily shipyard execution tracking, and maintained strict OPEX/CAPEX controls within approved budgets.
- Systems Management: Maintained shipboard Planned Maintenance Systems (PMS) using advanced platforms, including BASS-NET, Ship-net, Star, and TM Master.
- Business Development: Assisted management in driving strategic marketing initiatives, drafting tender contracts for vessel chartering, and reviewing BIMCO Supplytime structures.
Regional Sales & Business Development Manager
VARD Group AS a Fincantieri Company
11.2016 - 12.2019
- Overall responsible for the (Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Engineering, Chartering/Commercial) in key international markets such as Asia, the Middle East and the U.S.A. for the New Building, Retrofit and Design program, including:
- Specialised Vessel, Offshore Support Vessel, Naval Defence Vessel, Expedition Cruise Ship, Luxury and Super Yacht, Fishery, Aquaculture and seafood research institute, L.N.G. Energy Renewable and Offshore Windfarm Vessels sector within the Group.
- Responsible for all vessel chartering activities and day rates, ensuring profitable employment, and managing operated vessels’ time charters.
- Be involved in the entire sales process, from lead generation, translating prospects to business wins, and ensuring the smooth handover of contract deliverables to the shipyard, Client, and shipowners.
- Market Research: Play an instrumental role in discovering and developing new markets through market research of industry trends. Provide an analysis of internal priorities, profitability, and opportunity costs, and present strategic recommendations to Management.
- Sales Execution: Plan and execute sales action plans, actively negotiate and engage with external stakeholders regionally, and translate business interests into sales and book orders.
- Negotiations and Implementation: Preparing sales and tender documents and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure both meet demands and interests.
- Project Management: Oversee commercial, technical, and operations teams and prepare tenders, bid submissions, and commercial offerings to the oil major, offshore ship owners/L.N.G./offshore wind developers.
- Account Management: To meet and follow up with ship owners, understand their commercial and technical requirements and coordinate internally with the in-house design team, government agencies, and classification society on various design and engineering matters.
- I actively participated in marketing efforts as an exhibitor at major trade shows. Regularly attends key conferences within the Naval Defence, Commercial, Offshore, Windfarm, L.N.G. Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas, Luxury and Super Yacht events in the Middle East, Asia and the U.S.A. market.
- Forge connections with regional government bodies and global M.N.C.s, including Navy, Coast Guard, Offshore Wind developers, Ship Owner, L.N.G. and Oil Major.
- Selected Achievements and Career Highlights:
- It has created and executed a sales strategy plan that resulted in a USD million contract with the Taiwanese Navy, creating a private offshore supply vessel, J.V. company.
- The company expanded into the Chinese market through business discussions with high-level officials. The company eventually sold vessel design products to offshore wind farm developers and oil majors in China.
- I have implemented company-wide software to track offshore vessels’ selling prices and daily chartering rates.
- Reason for leaving: Vard Singapore was delisted from S.G.X. and its operations in Singapore and Asia were amalgamated.
Technical Superintendent
DEEP SEA SUPPLY
10.2013 - 11.2016
- Undertake a technical and leadership role and is responsible for leading and managing a team of 80 ship staff, seafarers and the entire fleet management team. I travelled extensively to fulfil work obligations.
- Daily monitoring, planning, and operation of a fleet of 10 AHTS/PSV offshore support vessels’ activities/status to ensure all assigned ships operate safely and comply with all relevant international, class, and flag state requirements.
- Planned, controlled, and executed activities relating to maintenance, repairs, audit survey, certificate requirements, dry-docking, conversion and modification of assigned vessels.
- Ensure vessels comply with all relevant rules & regulations with prudent emphasis on the ISM/ISPS/MLC code standard and flag state and port state requirements.
- Overseeing all vessel maintenance and ensuring dry docking within the agreed operating and capital budget.
- Liaise closely with the H.S.E. Director and Technical Director to ensure all vessels operate and comply with the company’s safety management system (SMS).
- Attend charterer and end-user meetings/audits/Inspections - (PTTEP, PTSC, Talisman Energy, New Field, Shell, Petronas, Murphy Oil, Sapurakencana Petroleum and Conoco Phillips).
- Responsible for OPEX budgetary responsibility, preparation, and budget monitoring according to the organisation’s requirements.
- Assisted in the industry’s Offshore Vessel Inspection Database, Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OVID) special requirements inspection, regulations, and support of the ships.
- Prepare a daily fleet status report for review by the Technical Director.
- Other Chartering & Marketing Responsibility:
- Assisted the Chartering Director in obtaining Chartering contracts by marketing the company’s vessel to oil majors, charterers, and bareboat charters in Southeast Asia markets.
- Negotiate daily rates, terms, and conditions with oil majors, charterers, traders, and ship brokers to the company’s standards.
- Propose vessel investment propositions to the senior management team and actively participate in tender proposals and new bidding submissions.
- Account manages and develops networks and relationships with new and existing clients to uncover new opportunities and deploy any new project lineup.
- Prepare the ship standard BIMCO BARECON contract, technical specifications, and daily charter rate (D.C.R) for the Client.
- Oversee the contracting process and internal approvals once a business is clinched.
- Prepared laytime calculations for all involved parties, issued voyage instructions to Masters as appropriate for changes to the vessel’s schedules and gave final voyage instructions when requested by the clients.
- Establish, maintain and sustain a long-term good business relationship with oil majors, including CVC (Consecutive Voyage Charter), T.C. (Time Charter) and S.C. (Spot Charter).
- Selected Achievements and Career Highlights:
- Proposed and exhibited regionally in marine exhibitions to build broader connections and solicit new business deal contracts.
- A connection and engagement of a relationship with the military secured a five-year charter contract with Thailand Oil company PTTEP for the AHTS vessel.
- Reason for leaving: Deep Sea Supply had ceased operations due to an offshore crisis.
Operation Superintendent
CH OFFSHORE LIMITED
03.2012 - 10.2013
- Travelled extensively to end-user and charterer vessel inspections and attended the Classification Society Annual Survey, vessel audits, and dry-docking repairs.
- Monitor and manage the performance of a fleet of 15 ATHS platform vessels, upkeep the ship’s survey status, and ensure compliance with Class and other mandatory or prescribed requirements. Planned, controlled, and executed maintenance, repairs, and survey requirements activities.
- Liaise with Classification Society Surveyor, Flag Administrator, shipyards, and repairers to comply with the requirement.
- Monitor all non-conformities, defects, and report close-ups, fulfilling the role of D.P.A. and C.S.O.
- Manage the daily operations of 33 vessels, including vessel movement, technical defects, ship repair, boat readiness, and inspection of the vessels to our builder’s specifications.
- Monitored periodic maintenance on all safety equipment and conducted vessel and charter inspection as per ISM/ ISPS code, ship-shore drill and tabletop exercise as per ISPS code, and shore-to-ship SSAS testing.
- Participate in the Company’s H.S.E. & External Charterer party Meetings.
- Selected Achievements and Career Highlights:
- I engaged with Enterprise Singapore, a government agency in Singapore, to secure long-term charters for 2 AHTS contracts in Mexico. One vessel was sold to Venezuela.
- Responsible for drafting the Maritime Labour Convention (M.L.C.) manual in 2013, approved by the Flag and Classification Society.
- Based briefly in Mexico and Venezuela, complete M.L.C. audit and shipboard review onboard during vessel sailing out to the location and oil field.
- Reason for leaving: Better offer and career advancement.
Fleet Management Executive
OTTO MARINE LIMITED
01.2010 - 03.2012
- Undertake the role of owner representative to the Group and ownership of new build vessel delivery.
- Handing over and taking over OSV, AHTS and P.S.V., 300 men accommodation work bars, deck cargo bars, tow tugs, and work maintenance vessels in China and Indonesia shipyards.
- Managing the crews, providing daily reports, purchasing spares, Vessel Annual Class Survey and performance appraisal.
- Responsible for documentation of vessels such as drawings, Manual Books, Statutory Class Certificates and Flag Certificates.
- Work closely with the Charterer party and buyer representatives from the various companies.
- Selected Achievements and Career Highlights:
- Managed and handled ten vessel retrofits from China Shipyard, which were eventually delivered and sold to ship owners in Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Implemented TM Master and Shipment to track vessel movement and monitored C.E. to complete the plan maintenance and update the software.
- Reason for leaving: Better career prospects and exposure.
Education
Master of Science (MSc) - Sustainable Maritime Operations
University of Plymouth
U.K.01.2023
Specialist Diploma - Maritime Superintendency
Singapore Maritime Academy
Singapore01.2021
Postgraduate (PGDip) - Executive Maritime Management
World Maritime University
01.2017
Bachelor (Honours) of Engineering - First Division Second Class Mechanical Engineering
University of Sunderland
UK01.2012
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
PSB Academy
Singapore01.2009
Skills
SHIP NET SYSTEM
TM MASTER
BASS-NET FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
SAP SYSTEM
ABS NS SYSTEM
Certification
2020 Vessel Manager Training Certification – Maritime Academy, D.N.V.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
- Nationality: Singaporean.
- Notice Period: 1 month.
Timeline
Vessels Fleet Manager – International Fleet (Operations & Technical)
CYAN RENEWABLES
09.2025 - Current
Fleet Technical Superintendent / Cluster Head / Centre of Excellence
POSH FLEET SERVICES LTD
11.2021 - 09.2025
Vessels Manager & Technical Superintendent
PACIFIC RADIANCE LTD
03.2020 - 11.2021
Regional Sales & Business Development Manager
VARD Group AS a Fincantieri Company
11.2016 - 12.2019
Technical Superintendent
DEEP SEA SUPPLY
10.2013 - 11.2016
Operation Superintendent
CH OFFSHORE LIMITED
03.2012 - 10.2013
Fleet Management Executive
OTTO MARINE LIMITED
01.2010 - 03.2012
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
PSB Academy
Bachelor (Honours) of Engineering - First Division Second Class Mechanical Engineering
University of Sunderland
Postgraduate (PGDip) - Executive Maritime Management
World Maritime University
Specialist Diploma - Maritime Superintendency
Singapore Maritime Academy
Master of Science (MSc) - Sustainable Maritime Operations
University of Plymouth