TMSA in Tanker Operations

What tanker operators have learned so far about TMSA

PACIFIC PLACE CONFERENCE CENTRE, HONG KONG
Monday Sept 4, 2006



This conference is created for tanker company marine managers, general managers and safety managers, who are involved with TMSA implementations. Also people involved in TMSA audits (oil major / independent vetting managers and auditors), people producing services related to TMSA (software, computer based training, electronic charts, consultancy), and people involved in other areas of vessel assessment / inspection (flag regulators, P and I) who want to improve their understanding of TMSA, what it can achieve and the industry attitude to it.

The maritime industry has adopted a wide spectrum of different attitudes to TMSA, ranging from changing the entire company safety department around it (BW Shipping), to ignoring it completely. Which approach is the right one? Find out what the industry has learned so far about TMSA, and help develop your own opinion, by attending this conference.

Delegates registered so far include Tokyo chemical and gas tanker manager MEC Ltd (marine manager, senior general manager / DP); Gold Bridge Shipping (safety manager, technical officer, claims and insurance manager); Lloyd´s Register Asia (manager, marine management systems); Philippine Standard Shipmanagement (general manager, manager marine section); Anglo Eastern; Wallem; International Registries, ShipNet.





Chairman and consultant conference producer: Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping

9.30 Captain Pradeep Chawla, director of quality assurance and training, Anglo Eastern Shipmanagement Complying with TMSA - a detailed review of compliance issues with TMSA.

10.00 Matthew Hodkinson, group safety manager, ASP Shipmanagement, Melbourne . How ASP Shipmanagement approaches TMSA - a new type of ship management company focussing on meeting oil major standards

10.30 Patrick Slesinger, chief information officer, Wallem Shipmanagement Using information technology as part of a TMSA implementation

11.00 BREAK

11.30 Capt. A.M. Nasir, safety and quality manager, Univan 1) Univan's approach to TMSA - resource needs and measures taken to meet the challenge. Special Focus on Element 7 - Management of Change, and Element 8 Incident Investigation. Overview of TMSA - what it seeks to achieve.

Capt. R.R. Jatar joined the Univan Hong Kong Office in 2002 as a superintendent in the technical department after having spent 20 years at sea,five of which were spent sailing on Univan ships. He has spent two years as a lecturer in nautical subjects and as safety auditor. He was technical manager of Univan's Fleet C for eight months and took over the safety and quality manager's role in September 2005

12.00 Panel discussion - what is the reward for tanker operators of high TMSA scores?

12.40 Lunch



1.40 Satnam Kumar, director risk, safety and quality, V.Ships (Asia) MSI Pte Ltd. How V.Ships is approaching TMSA

2.10 Sanjay Ramanathan, Eurasia . How Eurasia is approaching TMSA

2.40 Dinesh Pradhan, marine operations manager, Teekay Shipping Singapore Pte Ltd How Teekay is approaching TMSA

Captain Dinesh Pradhan is marine operations manager of Teekay Shipping (Singapore). He represents Teekay on the Intertanko Vetting Committee. He is chairman of Singapore Shipping Association's sub-committee on maritime security and safety and sits on the Singapore Shipping Association's Technical committee and Tanker sub-committee. He joined Teekay in 1993 as chief officer and master, coming ashore in 2001. He started his sailing career as a cadet with Wallem Shipmanagement in 1979, becoming master in 1992. 3.10 Giampiero Soncini, CEO, SpecTec. TMSA: will it be the definitive Procedure for Tankers? Or just one of the many? It all depends on you

3.35 Panel discussion
What are the biggest benefits and challenges of TMSA?

4.00 Close



On Monday September 4th, we will be holding the fifth of our series of Tanker Management Self Assessment (TMSA) conferences in Hong Kong, for senior safety / technical / general managers of shipping companies, as well as suppliers involved in TMSA (such as class societies, software companies, shipping agents), perhaps also vetting companies and oil majors, to meet and discuss how TMSA is evolving as a system and how best to approach it.

Conference chairman and consultant conference producer, once again, is Dimitris Lyras of Lyras Shipping, who has an intimate knowledge of both the challenges tanker operators face, how a system like TMSA can potentially lead the industry into a new professional arena, and how to create and implement the management systems which allow this to be achieved.

There are plenty of big unanswered questions, mainly relating to the effort - reward dynamic. Many people are cynical that any management system in shipping can cause benefit, having seen so much badly created systems and cheating going on. Many people are cynical that oil majors will ever pay more for higher scoring vessels.

If the situation works properly, then better tanker operators will be able to earn more money in management fees, their principals getting higher utilisations and charter rates. Tanker operators will be able to pay more money for better and more motivated seafarers and spend more money on their quality of life onboard, justifying this expense through their increased returns.

Is this the only desirable way the industry can evolve, or an unrealistic expection? Only the tanker industry can decide. If you want to be part of the discussion, then you should come to our conference.

Also - don't miss Digital Ship Hong Kong, a two day conference / exhibition about IT in shipping held on the two days after this TMSA event, with free attendance for shipping company employees - click here to find out more.

Conference delegate fees are HKD 5691 / Eur 570 / GBP 395.
To register please contact Diana Leahy in London on +44 207 510 4939, or e-mail leahy@thedigitalship.com

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These photographs were taken at Tanker Operator's TMSA conference in Singapore on May 5 2006

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

Approaches to TMSA at major tanker operating companies
Approaches to: accident investigation, risk management, change management
What reward from tanker operators expect from the effort / expense of reaching the higher levels?
Can TMSA be faked?

SPECIAL FOCUS ON:

Element 3 – need a competent crew capable of working as an effective team
Element 7 – management of change
Element 8 – incident investigation
Element 9 – identify each risk
Element 10 – efforts to improve safety and protection of the environment

REGISTRATION
Conference delegate fees are HKD 5691 / Eur 570 / GBP 395.
To register please contact Diana Leahy in London on +44 207 510 4939, or e-mail leahy@thedigitalship.com