TMSA in Tanker Operations conference –
Athens, October 18, 2006 2006

Tanker Operator magazine will hold its fifth TMSA conference, and second in Hong Kong, in the Metropolitan Hotel, Athens, on October 18, 2006, as a forum for tanker operators to talk about how they are approaching TMSA, which aspects they find hardest and easiest, what business benefits they expect and what they think of the scheme.


Delegate tickets are priced at 450 Euro. To register delegate tickets contact Ria Kontogeorgou on ria@tankeroperator.com Or Tel +44 207 510 4938.

AGENDA

Chairman: Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping

Dimitris Lyras is director of of Lyras Shipping. He is vice-chairman of the Intertanko public relations committee and senior advisor to the board of Ulysses Systems. He is leading some of the world efforts to improve the image of the shipping industry and encourage a culture of continuous improvement. He is a qualified ship's engineer. This is the sixth Tanker Operator TMSA conference he has chaired, following our events in Oslo (June 05), Rotterdam (Nov 05), Athens (Feb 06), Singapore (May 06), Hong Kong (Sept 06).

9.30 Claus J Holm, director safety and quality, TESMA. TMSA in combination with ISO and ISM as management tool - the lack of feed back from oil majors

Claus J Holm, director safety and quality, TESMA. TESMA, based in Denmark, provides full technical management to 89 vessels and provides crews to 175 vessels. From its Danish offices, it manages 9 product tankers, 8 LPG carriers, 9 chemical tankers, and one OBO.

10.00 Marco Ahrens, marine manager, Interorient Navigation . TMSA from an owner/managers perspective - how Interorient is approaching TMSA

Marco Ahrens is marine manager, Interorient Navigation, which own/manages a mixed fleet of 52 vessels. He has been shore based since 2002. His last command for a North Sea dynamically positioned shuttle tanker, and he has held positions from ordinary seaman on cargo ships to master on VLCCs. He has also worked as a mooring master / superintendent in the US Gulf and US Eastern seaboard carrying out ship to ship operations, and a marine superintendent / mooring master off the Nigerian coast carrying out offloading operations from an FPSO. He graduated from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.

10.30 Captain David Stockley, chief operating officer, Stealth Maritime. Reservations about TMSA. Experience with TMSA at two different shipping companies.

Captain David Stockley is chief operating officer, Stealth Maritime, a company based in Greece which manages 4 aframax tankers, 1 VLCC and 28 LPG vessels.

11.00 Break

11.30 Capt. Panos Hatzikyriakos, head of safety, quality and environment, OSG TMSA and the human element

Captain Panos Hatzikyriakos is safety and security manager / designated person ashore / company security officer with OSG Shipmanagement, one of the world's largest tanker companies with a fleet of 94 vessels and a further 14 newbuilds. It is based in New York. OSG acquired Stelmar Shipping in January 2005, the tanker company established by Stelios Haji-Ioannou.

12.00 Discussion - is TMSA good or bad for the maritime industry? How can the industry get any benefit out of it?

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Haris G Giantzikis, technical manager, Arcadia Shipmanagement. How Arcadia Shipmanagement is approaching TMSA

Arcadia Shipmanagement has 8 crude oil tankers and 1 product tanker, with more 2 suezmax and 4 afromax tankers being delivered in 2007. Its fleet is 100 per cent double hull. Arcadia Shipmanagmeent Co. Ltd, is certified to ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:1996, OHSAS 18001:1999 standards by Det Norske Veritas, has been granted with the Green Award and has also awarded the certificate of compliance to Risk Management System by ABS Consulting.

2.00 Addressing the softer issues of management in parallel with TMSA. Capt Tony Field, marine management systems manager, Piraeus, Lloyd's Register
Identifying how team members of the various parts of the business can work together more effectively
Managing change – getting change accepted
Achieving a better understanding of team dynamics and impact of personnel behavioural
Motivating the crew and shore staff
Developing staff in today’s harsh climate
Attracting the right people and retaining those right people

Capt Tony Field is marine management systems manager, Lloyd's Register Piraeus. Lloyd's Register offers consultancy services to help tanker companies understand how to meet the challenges of TMSA, and help identify how well your existing management systems comply with the elements of it.

2.30 Dr. Alessia Vergine, project manager, marine services department, RINA. TMSA in practical terms -
feed back from applications carried out so far with tanker operators.
Identifying what are critical components.
How to deal with near misses Practical examples from recent real applications (without mentioning the shipping company's name)

Dr. Alessia Vergine is project manager, marine services department, RINA. Earlier this year, RINA launched a Risk Assessment and Management Techniques initiative, to help companies learn from accidents, incidents and near-misses, as demanded by TMSA. It also launched a Reliability Centred Maintenance program to help manage maintenance of critical items

3.00 Panel discussion Is there any evidence yet of commercial benefits for companies with higher TMSA scores, in terms of higher utilisation, charter rates, ability of managers to grow their fleets, attraction (or otherwise) of seafarers to the company

3.30 Close

Delegate tickets are priced at 450 Euro. To register delegate tickets contact Ria Kontogeorgou on ria@tankeroperator.com Or Tel +44 207 510 4938.

ATTENDEES TO PREVIOUS TMSA CONFERENCE IN ATHENS

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Images from our TMSA conference in Athens in January 2006 which attracted over 100 people

Our TMSA event in Athens in January 2006 attracted around 100 delegates, including 66 representatives of tanker companies, 12 from class societies and 20 from suppliers. Companies sending delegates included Aegean Shipping Management; AET UK; Akron Trade and Transport; Ancora Investment Trust; Arcadia Shipmanagement Co.; Athenian Sea Carriers; Chartworld Shipping Corporation; DS Norden; Enesel; Epsilon Hellas (Overseas); European Product Carriers; General Maritime Management; Goldenport Shipmanagement; Interorient Navigation; Isis Maritime; Laskaridis Shipping Co.; LMZ Transoil Shipping; Lyras Shipping; Marmaras Navigation; Naftomar Shipping & Trading; National Iranian Tanker Company; Novorossiysk Shipping Company, Russia; Olympic Shipping; OMI; OSG Ship Management; OSM Group; Pioneer Tankers Shipping Corporation; Prime Marine Management; Seaworld Management and Trading; Stealth Maritime Corporation; Tankerska Plovidba; Transocean Shipmanagement; Trustoil Tankers; Tsakos Shipping & Trading; Uljanik Shipmanagement

CONFERENCE PURPOSE

The purpose of our conference is to create a forum for senior tanker managers to talk about how they are investing their management time and resources into TMSA and what kind of returns they expect, from having a possibly better managed business and more motivated crew.

The oil majors left it up to tanker companies to decide what specific level they should reach in TMSA and how much they should invest in it. These are not easy decisions.

But it helps if you can share your experiences with other tanker companies and understand if you are putting more or less effort into it than the industry average, and share your views about what kinds of returns you expect. You can do this at our conference.

TMSA OVERVIEW

Many people in the industry see TMSA as yet another work-generating management system, dreamed up by management a long way from reality. But the truth is that it could achieve a great deal to improve working conditions onboard, quality of operations and reward for quality operators.

To explain: many oil companies say they would happily pay more for a tanker operation which was above the minimum, so long as they had a robust system to prove to the oil company inspectors, auditors and accountants what they are getting for their money.

Currently they do not have such a system; most of the existing systems are regulatory, such as ISM, and just prove that the tanker company has reached the minimum.

TMSA pushes the market dynamic in the tanker industry to a similar one to every other industry in the world, providing higher financial reward for companies which treat their staff better, operate more safely and more efficiently, rather than just having a commodity freight rates for cargoes on specific routes which apply no matter how well managed the vessel is.

This pulls the tanker industry out of its current market dynamic where too often, the tanker company making the most money is the one which can operate as cost effectively as possible and as close as possible to the minimum line. This is a market dynamic which causes most of the industry problems we are all so familiar with, such as inability to recruit motivated seafarers and heavyhanded clumsy legislation from regulators everywhere because they do not trust the industry to regulate itself.

People have different views on how much following the guidelines in TMSA will lead to improved quality of operations and improved safety. The guidelines may not be perfect. But TMSA is generally considered to be promoting a Sarbanes-Oxley style 'measure everything and audit everything' operating philosophy, as oppposed to a 'I've done this all my life I know how to do it leave me alone' philosophy.

But ultimately, TMSA can only work if the industry gets behind it and supports it; if you think TMSA is worth supporting, then come along to the conference.



About our TMSA events

This follows our TMSA events in Oslo (June 05), Rotterdam (Nov 06), Athens (Jan 06), Singapore (May 06) and Hong Kong (Sept 06).


We expect a similar attendance this year, because there has been a great deal of development with TMSA projects since January.

The format will be identical to our previous TMSA events. Only shipping company speakers, oil company vetting inspectors and oil major speakers, with active experience of TMSA and having to make the decisions associated with it, will be allowed to speak in the morning.

Depending on the number of shipowner speakers we have, we may invite additional speakers from class societies, consultants and software vendors to speak in the afternoon. The event will run 9am to 4pm.

The conference will be expertly chaired by Dimitris Lyras, director of Lyras Shipping, and sponsored again by maritime software company Ulysses Systems.

For information about all past TMSA events, including downloads of comprehensive conference reports, previous powerpoint presentations and photographs, see http://www.tankeroperator.com/tmsa.htm.

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