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Young Agent and Broker Award 2015 Ebook THE FEDERATION OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF SHIP BROKERS AND AGENTS FONASBA YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD The Collected Essays From the Inaugural 2015 Award YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 2 Copyright © FONASBA 2015 YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by the President 5 Introduction by the Vice - President for Education and Chairman of the Award Review Committee 7 Support from the Award Sponsors 9 - 10 The Papers: 11 Renan Queiroz, Brazil 2015 Award Winner 13 - 50 Diego Agüero, Argentina 51 - 77 Giulia de Paolis, Italy 78 - 91 Luisa Mastellone, Italy 92 - 113 Aleksandar Obućina, Serbia 114 - 130 Nils Reinhardt, Germany 131 - 148 Frédéric Van Mechelen, Belgium 149 - 181 2016 Entry Criteria and Timetable 182 - 184 YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 4 YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 5 INTRODUCTION By the President of FONASBA It gives me great pleasure to write the foreword to this first collection of entries for the FONASBA Young Ship Agent or Ship Broker Award. The Award was launched early in 2015 with the aim of encouraging younger members of our profession to look in detail at one or more aspects of the ship agency, ship broking or wider maritime sector and to research and produce a thesis level paper on that topic. In spite of the impact of relatively short deadlines for this first Award on the already limited time available to a working ship agent or ship broker, our younger members responded magnificently. The papers included in this eBook not only demonstrate clearly the diversity and depth of knowledge available within our membership, but also the interest and commitment of the authors to enhancing their knowledge and sharing it with others. Just looking at the diversity of the subjects covered is more than sufficient to give an insight to the breadth of our profession. The papers ranged from broad brush investigations into the role of the ship agent today, to those looking at the specific issues for agents working in specialist environments such as river transport. Others looked at the impact of external factors, for example trading patterns, on our profession. The future of ship agency and ship broking was also a common theme, with more than one entrant venturing to suggest where our members will be in the mid - term. Reading the papers also demonstrates the passion that our younger members have for our industry and their concern that whatever the future influences there are on it, the ship agent and ship broker will continue to play a vital role in the effective and efficient movement of goods by sea. With this level of commitment and enthusiasm being shown by our younger members, we can be confident that our profession is in safe hands for many years to come. I now encourage you to read the papers and having done so, to urge our younger members to enter the 2016 Award, which is now open. The criteria for this year’s Award, and the entry timetable, are reproduced on pages 182 to 184 and we look forward very much to receiving their entries. Finally, I would once again thank all our 2015 entrants for their hard work and dedication in producing these excellent entries. Our congratulations once again go to Renan Queiroz for his winning entry, but whilst there can only be one winner, knowing that the efforts of each and every one of you has added greatly to the sum of knowledge available to FONASBA, its members and, through this publication, to the wider maritime sector, should make each of you as proud of those efforts as we are in being able to present them here. Glen Gordon Findlay President YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 6 YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 7 INTRODUCTION By the FONASBA Vice President for Education As Vice President for Education, I am pleased to join with our President, Glen Gordon Findlay, in writing the foreword to this eBook celebrating the first Young Ship Agent or Ship Broker Award. When we started this project we had some doubts about the level of support it would receive, especially given the demands of a 24/7/365 maritime service industry, but the seven entrants managed to carefully balance all the demands on their time and lives to produce seven well - written, balanced and detailed papers that together and separately stand testimony to the knowledge and enthusiasm of our young people. Through the publication of this eBook, we are pleased and proud to be able to demonstrate the depth of that knowledge and enthusiasm to the wider shipping community I was honoured to be a member of the Award Review Panel, led by my colleague, Past President and FONASBA Honorary Member Gunnar J. Heinonen, and to work with him and Charlotte Kirk FICS, Commercial Director of our first sponsor ITIC, in reading all the papers. It was a pleasure to undertake this task and I was impressed at the level of understanding of our industry and the depth of the additional research that went into each and every one. Whilst there could be only one winner, each of the papers certainly met with the criterion that every entry to the Award should add to the fund of knowledge within FONASBA and there are a number of issues that have emerged and we will be taking these forward in the coming months. I therefore thank all the entrants on behalf of FONASBA for their interest, commitment and enthusiasm and congratulate them all on their achievement. Having acknowledged ITIC as our first Award sponsor, I also thank our colleagues at BIMCO for their support for the project and for sponsoring an additional prize. This eBook marks the end of the 2015 Award and we are already open to receive expressions of interest for 2016 entry. With much more time allowed for subjects to be considered and research to be undertaken, we are hopeful that this second Award will see even more entries. FONASBA is grateful to both ITIC and BIMCO for reaffirming their support of the prizes for 2016 and Gunnar Heinonen and Charlotte Kirk have also agreed to join me on the judging panel. We all look forward to reading the entries for the new Award and to once again having the difficult but enjoyable task of selecting the winner, whom we look forward to welcoming to the 2016 FONASBA Annual Meeting in London. Capt. Jakov Karmelić FONASBA Vice President for Education INTRODUCTION By the Chairman of the Award Review Committee My colleagues on the Reviewing Committee and I were extremely impressed by the standard of all entries in this years’ competition, which was consistently high across all the papers. After this encouraging start we hope that the 2016 competition will attract still more entries to prove the high standard of professionalism among young shipbrokers and agents. The future is yours and what better proof is there than to be able and willing to document one’s views and visions. Good luck! Gunnar J. Heinonen FONASBA Honorary Member YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 8 YOUNG SHIP AGENT OR SHIPBROKER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 9 AWARD SPONSOR - ITIC ITIC has insured ship brokers and agents since 1925 (in its various previous forms of CISBA etc.). ITIC was founded by a number of prominent members of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers who were port agents and brokers in the UK. Having had 90 years’ experience of handling claims involving brokers and agents we understand the importance of knowledge and education. We know that many of the claims brought to ITIC would not have occurred had the person concerned had a better training, or knowledge of the job they were doing. In view of our consideration of the importance of knowledge ITIC has always tried to be involved with education or training. The team will provide loss prevention seminars directly to members in their offices, or more generally thorough the local ship agents’ or brokers’ association. We are also proud of our involvement with the ICS training courses, as lecturers, examiners and assessors. We, at ITIC, were delighted when we heard that FONASBA wanted to provide an educational award for a young broker or agent and we were even more thrilled to be part of it, as part of the judging panel and as sponsor. At ITIC we firmly believe that if the depth of knowledge is gained early in the brokers’ or agents' career, it will be with them for life. Knowledge at all levels improves loss prevention, reduces claims and therefore the cost of your company’s professional indemnity insurance. In 2015 Renan Queiroz was the winner of the FONASBA Young Agent and Broker Award for his enlightening paper on being a ship agent on the River Plate. It was a thoroughly well researched, well - structured and well written paper. Another paper considered as being very highly commended was on the differences of working on the River Danube by Aleksander Obucina. Some of the proposals contained in this paper were suggested for adoption by ECASBA within the context of the European Commission’s inland waterways strategy. Through this paper, the FONASBA Young Agent and Broker Award could make a real impact to operations on the Danube. We are looking forward to reading the papers for the 2016 entrants, which we hope will be as varied and as well written as the entries for 2015.
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