TMSA and continuous improvement in tanker operations

ATHENS - Metropolitan Hotel, January 31st, 2006

Tanker Operator conference

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SPEAKERS

Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping (chair)

9.20 Chairman's introduction

9.30 - 9.50Capt. Panos Hatzikyriakos, safety and security manager / DPA / CSO, OSG Shipmanagement. TMSA and risk assessment - a continuous improvement

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. www.osg.com

9.50 - 9.55 Questions for Capt. Panos Hatzikyriakos

9.55-10.15 Speaker from TESMA

10.15 - 10.20 Questions for TESMA

10.20 - 10.40 Kostas Polydakis, technical manager, Athenian Sea Carriers
- Continuous improvement and preventive maintenance systems
- avoiding the compliance trap"
- Development of comprehensive preventive maintenance systems,   continuous improvement of such systems and TMSA Element 4
- reliability and maintenance standards

Kostas Polydakis is technical manager of Athenian Sea Carriers, a long-established tanker operator based in Athens. ASC presently operate two products tankers and one crude oil tanker after the recent en-bloc sale of eleven of their newbuilding vessels. Athenian Sea Carriers has developed an advanced integrated maintenance system consisting of vessel-specific electronic preventive maintenance and performance monitoring systems. http://www.atheniangroup.com

10.40-10.45 Questions for Kostas Polydakis, technical manager, Athenian Sea Carriers

10.45 - 11.15 BREAK

11.15 - 11.35 Capt. Michael Reppas, HSE Director, Seaworld Management and Trading .

TMSA and continuous improvement in tanker operations - How continuous improvement is achieved and measured in practice including tangible benefits

- Common issues between TMSA and existing management system
- Basic explanations on the improvement cycle
- Systematic setting of objective and targets
- How they can be implemented within the company (systematically - step by step)
- Some guidance (personal opinion) on how to complete TMSA
- Tangible benefits of implementing continuous improvement cycle / TMSA

Captain Michael Reppas is health, safety and environmental (HSE) director of Seaworld Management and Trading with a fleet of 11 tankers. (part of the Athens based J. Laliotis Group). He is vice-chairman of the Intertanko environmental Committee and author of Intertanko's "Guide to International Environmental Management Systems (EMS)". He is Plymouth University educated, certified ISO 9000, ISO 14001 and ISM Code Lead Auditor for IRCA, IACS and ABS requirements with an extensive service in consulting, auditing and managerial positions.

11.35 - 11.40 - Questions for Capt. Michael Reppas, HSE Director, Seaworld Management and Trading

11.40-12.00 Stephan Polomsky, managing director, Transocean Shipmanagement. Authorities - Owners - Customers - The crucial link. A critical look into the jungle of "rs" - rules, regs and requirements.

Transocean Shipmanagement is the manager of all Essberger Chemical Carriers. Together with Broere Shipping, Dordrecht, NL, the Broere Essberger ChemPool operates a fleet of 26 modern and highly sophisticated chemical tankers throughout Europe from the upper Baltic region via the Continent to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. The Broere Essberger ChemPool vessels range from 2,500 to 6,500 dwt and comprise 110,000 deadweight tons. These vessels feature cargo tanks and associated pipes, fittings, pumps and valves of highly anticorrosive stainless steel. Besides other vessels like Bulk Carriers, Cement Carrier and Container Vessels Transocean Shipmanagement presently supervise the construction of two Ice Classed Aframax Tanker at Daewoo shipyard in Korea. See http://www.tr-ocean.de

12.00 to 12.05 - Questions for Stephan Polomsky, managing director, Transocean Shipmanagement.

12.05 Panel discussion and search for conclusions led by Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping.

Experiences to date - what level of risk assessment has proven acceptable to date by oil majors?

What level of crew familiarisation and training has proven acceptable to date by oil majors?

What level of technical monitoring has proven acceptable to oil majors?

Discussion of issues which arose during auditing

Will TMSA lead to a convergence or divergence of regulation?

How much will it cost? Will it make life easier or harder for shipowners?



1.00 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 2.20 Ioannis Iakovou, TMSA product manager and Piraeus client training manager, Lloyds Register Piraeus TMSA - The Lloyd's Register experience so far. Lloyd's Register has traditionally been involved in providing management systems certification services to shipping companies. Since the introduction of TMSA though, there have been opportunities for these companies to achieve further improvement, several years after the introduction of the ISM Code. Lloyd's Register has been involved in this process, and the presentation will focus on the experiences gained so far , highlighting the difficulties and challenges faced by ship managers but also the benefits that can be achieved. Questions that the industry is asking itself, such as "is it just another paper exercise" or "will it really help reduce risk" will be answered from a different perspective.

Mr Iakovou is a senior specialist in marine management Systems and was previously a maritime technical superintendent for 8 years

2.20 - 2.25 - Questions for Ioannis Iakovou, TMSA product manager and Piraeus client training manager, Lloyds Register Piraeus

2.25 - 2.45 Stephen Chapman, general secretary, International Shipmanager's Association (InterManager). The InterManager KPI initiative - how it dovetails with TMSA. InterManager's view about TMSA.

Full members of InterManager are Arab Shipmanagement, Belchem Singapore, Chemikalien Seatransport, Columbia Shipmanagement, DS-Schiffahrt, Eurasia International, Hanseatic Shipping, International Shipping Partners, Navigo Management, Terra Marine Ship Management, Thome Ship Management and Wallem Shipmanagement. InterManager is currently engaged in developing a standard set of key performance indicators (KPIs) which the whole industry could use to monitor and evaluate performance.

2.45 - 2.50 Questions for Stephen Chapman, general secretary, International Shipmanager's Association (InterManager)

2.50 - 3.10 Panteleimon Pantelis, services director, Ulysses Systems
- using software to measure and monitor key performance indicators and performance. Using software for information management. Specific aspects of TMSA where software can help

3.10 - 3.15 Questions for Panteleimon Pantelis, services director, Ulysses Systems

3.15 - 3.35 Professor Takis Varelas, chief information officer, Danaos Management Consultants
Information axiology for risk, controls and Key Performance Factors
Best business practice for TMSA implementation
Measurement theory principles
Risk management,
Cost benefit analysis and control measurements
The three-dimensional enterprise position model
IT infrastructure
Functional specifications for KPI's definition and monitoring

3.35 - 3.40 Questions for Professor Takis Varelas

3.40 - 4.00 Apostolos Belokas, managing director, IBS SA
TMSA from the perspective of a consultant (pros and cons, problems and challenges). Results of TMSA survey

Apostolos Belokas is managing director of International Business Solutions S.A. , a provider of maritime solutions in the areas of quality, safety, security, health, environmental, crisis and risk management. He has extensive background in marine operations including technical superintendency and marine management consulting. He has personally lead more than 125 projects related with implementation of management systems. www.ibsnet.gr

4.00 - 4.05 Questions for Apostolos Belokas, managing director, IBS SA

3.40 Panel discussion and conclusions of the day. Facilitated by Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping.

4.10 Close

PRESS REPORTING - This conference will be reported for Tanker Operator and Digital Ship magazines. We also have journalistic representation from Athens News, Merger Market, Naftika Chronika and Naftemporiki.

DELEGATE REGISTRATIONS - companies already booked to send delegates include OMI Marine Services, Donelly Tanker, Trustoil Tankers, OSG, Aegean Bulk Co, DS Norden, IS Maritime, Radio Holland Greece, Akron Trade and Transport, OMI, Aegean Oil, Lloyd's Register, ABS, Elko Marine Consultants, DNV, Enesel, European Product Tankers, Bureau Veritas, National Iranian Tanker Company, Lloyd's Register, Stealth Maritime Corporation, O-Mnis Services, Epsilon Hellas, OSG Ship Management, Interorient Navigation, Marmaras Navigation, University of the Aegean, Tankerska Plovidba, Bureau Veritas Croatia, American Eagle Tankers, Ancora Investment Trust, Novorossiysk Shipping Company (Novoship), ABS-NS



SYNOPSIS

Tanker Operator is continuing its series of conferences about TMSA and continuous improvement in tanker operations, with a one day conference in Athens on January 31st.

The jury is still out on whether TMSA is a good thing.

It will cost up to $70,000 a year per ship, in management time to put in new systems, training, consultancy and IT.

But will it add value by helping create a new market for tanker operators which do more than the minimum (and get compensated accordingly)? Will it help oil companies find out much more about a tanker operation than they can from their detention and accident reports, and 8 hour inspections? Will it help them assess the likelihood of an accident over the next few months, which are due to poor training, maintenance and management today?

Will it create a framework which leads to a reduction in inspections and paperwork? Will it help create a sense of customers (oil companies) in charge, and stop regulators seeing the need for drastic measures to enforce standards? Will it create a useful framework for continuous improvement of management systems?

Or will it make things worse, by giving shipping companies yet another lot of paperwork and work, both in the office and on ship, for no financial benefit, and reward tanker operators which either continue to do the minimum, on the basis that there are not enough vessels for oil companies who want anything else, and reward tanker operators who lie about their scores? Will it put smaller tanker operators out of business?

Meanwhile there are a number of other initiatives to maintain continuous improvement, including InterManager's project to develop an industry wide series of key performance indicators (KPIs) which will enable one tanker operator to be compared directly with another, and Intertanko's "striving for zero" project.

This one day conference will review the different initiatives, and whether they lead to a convergence in how the industry is governed (both by regulators and charterers), so tanker operators can focus more energy on actually improving their operations, or lead to a divergence: yet more rules and work and energy taken up on paper.

If you are interested in how the tanker industry will be governed over the coming years, then you should come to this conference. Delegate tickets are just Eur 450, with a Eur 350 early bird discount if you book by the end of 2005

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