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THE WORLD OF OILTANKING VOL. 28/2 AUGUST 2016 BUSINESS EDITORIAL CONTENTS Contents ASIA PACIFIC 04 New Kid on the Block: Karimun EUROPE 05 FUSION – A Package Deal for Oiltanking 08 Project Newton 10 And… Action! Moving 16 Not a Waste of Space 10 20 iotl.com – Same Place, New Address Time(s) INDIA ACTION 21 Indian Ambassador Visits ‘Goodwill Ambassadors’ Sometimes it seems we are constantly on the move all Hamburg-based Marquard & Bahls subsidiaries – from home to office, shopping, driving our kids to under one roof. A moving moment in many ways – LATIN AMERICA 27 A Winning Move! school, visiting family and friends … and, during the not just for colleagues who have worked in the 32 Moving Ahead Fast in Brazil upcoming summer vacation, we will likely be getting current Admiralitaetstrasse building for many years, ourselves to one holiday destination or the other. In but for all of us as working from a new location 34 Reasons to Celebrate any case, “being on the move” and moving as such always marks the start of a new beginning. 36 Moving Ideas to Generate Value is good for one’s health. A few years ago, our EL NIÑO – Joy and Sorrow colleagues in Copenhagen were provided with a We pay tribute to this decisive turning-point by 37 wristband to count their daily steps and encourage dedicating this issue to moving and its many facets. Oiltanking’s New ‘Pearl’ 32 each other to move more as part of the 2010 Global We hope you enjoy this issue, timed to coincide MIDDLE EAST 28 Corporate Challenge® (GCC)* “Get the world with one of the biggest [physical] moves in our & AFRICA 30 ‘No Matter the Weather, We Work Together’ MOVING moving.” With striking success: their final step company’s history! count was classified as “extremely active.” Touching Terminal Tale Moving right along with you, PEOPLE 06 People also move when they relocate for professional & PLACES 12 We can, we care ... Managing International reasons – our expats know all about that, as you Assignments and Compensation within Marquard & Bahls will see in the article on page 24. A U.S. survey shows that in America, moving is especially Daan Vos Koen Verniers 18 Moving pictures on the Move commonplace: people in the United States move an Managing Director Managing Director Moving Works of Art average of 11.7 times during their lifetime**. A Oiltanking West Oiltanking East 22 German mobility survey*** indicates that Germans 24 Cultural Experiences | On the Move move 4.5 times in their lives, mostly for romantic 42 Happy Cycling in Copenhagen! 42 reasons, followed by job-related moves. Moving to * The Global Corporate Challenge® (GCC), initiated in In a nutshell CYCLING a bigger home is the third most frequently cited Melbourne in 2003, works with businesses all over the world 46 reason for moving – and is in fact our own company’s to improve employees’ health and performance with the ultimate aim of achieving healthier [business] results Lexicon | Air Pulsing reason for moving its head office in Hamburg by the ** United States Census Bureau, based on American LEISURE & 15 end of August 2016. The new office building at Community Survey (ACS), 2007 *** Mobility survey by the Immonet real-estate portal and ENTERTAINMENT 35 SLEEP in 31 Movements Koreastrasse 7 will house the Holding company and Forsa polling institute, 2014 38 Cities That Never Sleep Get Moving! 40 Cover: The photograph IMPRINT connections Vol. 28/2/2016 Published by Oiltanking GmbH, Corporate Center, Koreastrasse 7, 44 Sport | Adventure to the Max "Jalan Jembatan Batu, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, www.oiltanking.com, Telephone +49-40-37099-7485, Fax +49-40-37099-7499 45 Number | 7 Tamansari, Jakarta/ E-Mail [email protected] Coordinator Gabi Wuestenberg, Manager Communications Editor Renate Eijkholt Indonesia" by Martin Design raz design, Hamburg Print BEISNER DRUCK GMBH & Co. KG, Hamburg Published Three times a year 47 Reader's Corner Roemers. More about his Copy Deadline vol 28/3 week 37, 2016 48 Last but not least | Up & Down work on page 38. Print compensated Id-No. 1657116 www.bvdm-online.de 2 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 3 ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE PROXIMITY Located in Riau Islands province, the terminal lies about A Package Deal New Kid on the Block: 37 kilometer southwest of Singapore for Oiltanking Karimun Oiltanking is engaged in the worldwide roll- out of two software packages that can be merged with the software already existing at its terminals. Project FUSION helps to coordinate the timing and implementation of these new systems. After almost three years of greenfield construction, Oiltanking's terminal in Karimun, There is a special package and system interfaces, and in the Terminals Oman, and Oiltanking awaiting delivery to Oiltanking execution of the realization of such Ebytem, Argentina. Sites to be Indonesia, has been catering to the petroleum storage needs of Greater Singapore terminals around the globe, a special opportunities. evaluated by the end of the year will since May 31, 2016. parcel carefully put together and be the Singapore terminals, Oiltanking wrapped to ensure the contents make in Malta and Ghent. The results are it to their intended destination. It impressive. In one case, the team On May 31, 2016, PT Oiltanking Positioned within a Free Trade Zone, thereby ensuring top service quality contains FAME, the new Finance & identified hundreds of man-hours of Karimun, a joint venture between the terminal features four deep-water and record turnaround times for its Accounting solution, and Newton, potential savings and the FUSION Oiltanking GmbH and the Gunvor berths, including VLCC capability, and customers and their ships. Oiltanking’s proprietary inventory team is now assisting the terminal in Group, successfully commissioned its excellent onshore infrastructure, management software. To ensure implementing the recommended new state-of-the-art terminal in these systems make their way to changes. In another case, an Indonesia. The very first 60,000 the right locations at the right important Joint Venture partner metric tons of gasoline and gasoline time, Oiltanking has initiated was pleased to learn that components were transshipped from project FUSION. Oiltanking was addressing the the MT Mari Ugland. The terminal, strategic use of software and which is strategically located within As the name implies, FUSION as a result approved the the Straits Hub, has a total storage will address how FAME and adoption of Newton at the capacity of 730,000 cbm. It is Newton can be integrated with terminal. designed to serve the growing demand other software tools commonly for petroleum products in Asia and used at Oiltanking for Strategy has become a popular caters to the storage maintenance and repair, buzzword, and FUSION is a key and handling of the warehouse management, process initiative in helping Oiltanking define full range of clean control systems, permitting, shift how to strategically use software in petroleum products hand-over, and more. Establishing the future. Though the execution of as well as fuel oil. interfaces between these systems can “FUSION” This project this software strategy varies from remove tedious manual effort and facilitates the merger of terminal to terminal, the FUSION existing systems with new reduce data entry errors, which can team is mobilizing to assist all software, as well as optimizing lead to avoidable safety incidents. processes and interfaces terminals and the entire division in executing this strategy for the FUSION involves a series of on-site common goal of better integration, ADVANTAGE The evaluations. A team of experienced improved processes, software new terminal will Oiltanking colleagues visits a terminal standardization, and waste reduction. bolster Oiltanking's for several days to interview and position in Asia evaluate the current use of software Sites evaluated to date include Pacific as part of a network of terminals at that site. The team looks for Oiltanking Joliet (USA), Star Energy with diverse opportunities to optimize processes Oiltanking in Dubai, Oiltanking Odfjell functionalities 4 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 5 PEOPLE & PLACES PEOPLE & PLACES IMAGINATION My home is my castle, and the terminal my THE LAWS HAVE playground CHANGED … Today it would be unthinkable for children to play at a terminal TouchingTerminal father would stop next and leave a message for him to call us Tale back. When my father returned the call, he instructed me to just go and “acknowledge” the alarm Jari Kyötikki (1970*), an operator and then push the re-start at the Oiltanking Finland Oy button. So I did!” says Köpi, terminal in Hamina, has a special recalling one of his early terminal experiences. bond with the terminal. He has known it since early childhood When Köpi started school, he and has fond memories of playing rode his bicycle whenever temperatures allowed. But during fall, winter and spring, here as a little boy. he often got a ride from one of the truck drivers who After graduating had finished the loading process at the terminal. “Not from school, he started working Imagine the following scenario: It many first-grade children got delivered to school in a in the terminal business “for real.” From 1997 until is 1974 and you are four years old. truck!” grins Köpi. However, in 1978, after his first year 2002 he even did so under his father’s management Your father works as a pump operator of school, the law in Finland changed and living at a until the Hamina terminal was bought by Vopak. On at a gasoil terminal in Hamina, Finland. terminal was prohibited. The family moved, but Köpi’s July 15, 2015, the terminal was bought by Oiltanking 1974 As the boilers at the terminal must be father kept working there and later was promoted to Sonmarin in Kotka, so Köpi is now one of our fifty new constantly attended, it is Terminal Manager.