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THE WORLD OF OILTANKING VOL. 28/2 AUGUST 2016

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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

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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 ina 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. Köpi, too, stayed connected with colleagues at Oiltanking Finland Oy. necessary for your the terminal business. father and his family to “Today it would be unthinkable for children to play at a live on the premises. terminal, as safety and security measures for Unfortunately, there are not a lot of playmates employees, equipment and the environment have For the Record The content of this your age (besides an older cousin who comes to utmost priority,” Köpi underlines. “But three article refers to 1974, a completely visit from time to time) and no playgrounds things have remained unchanged different day and age; 42 years ago, the nearby. Where would you play, and with whom? in all these years: the four oldest laws were entirely different, and tanks are still in good condition, regulations much less strict. The terminal Jari Kyötikki, affectionately known by his and the brick building still stands in Hamina was not yet part of the nickname Köpi, did the obvious: he built (apart from a new roof, but the Oiltanking terminal portfolio (not until sandcastles from earth and clay, played with his kitchen is still in the same place). 2015). For Oiltanking Health, Safety, small toy truck, climbed the terminal’s pipelines Back in the day, this building was the Security and Environment issues always – and followed his father around, attentively place where my family lived – and were and still are of utmost concern. watching him load and drive the trucks, measure also served as the control room, “Health” and “Safety first” are core the tanks etc., absorbing information all the while. boiler room etc. And third, of course, values. All of its terminals’ activities are By the time he was five, his proud father referred my passion for terminalling hasn’t continually optimized with a view to to him as his “second in command,” and aged six, changed! technical, organizational and behavioral young Köpi was promoted to “deputy boiler handler.” safety. Ultimately, Oiltanking promotes a proactive safety culture for all its “I remember one day when my father was away with employees, contractors and visitors. the delivery truck and the boiler’s alarm went off. OVER TIME Jari Mobile phones didn’t exist yet, and all my mother Kyötikki today could do was to call the delivery place where my 2016 and aged 4 6 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 7 EUROPE EUROPE

"The implementation of Newton was very smooth and professional – delivery developed this summer, To facilitate the was on time and in full." and is scheduled to be implementation, Lars implemented at Star Moehlmann, Newton Energy Oiltanking Dubai Project Manager, and Koen involved with the project did a and Oiltanking Odfjell Maene, Newton Support Officer, great job, and we are very satisfied Terminals Oman before the end of both of Marquard & Bahls, were on with the outcome!” the year. site to manage, train, and support the local team led by Anita Hocke, In addition to the implementation Like kids building with LEGO, Operations & Logistics Manager at in Copenhagen, Release 2.0 was Oiltanking is using individual Oiltanking Copenhagen. Team also successfully rolled out at the “blocks” to build, step by step, the Copenhagen is happy with the new Oiltanking Malta terminal in mid- foundation for future, more complex system and Terminal Manager Karl- April, and we expect that its implementations. Furthermore, Henrik Dahl notes: “The additional functionality will soon be these early implementations implementation of Newton was very implemented at further terminals. contribute to a larger strategy smooth and professional – delivery The next bricks will be laid in the promoted in projects such as was on time and in full. Everyone Middle East. Newton 3.0 will be FUSION and FAME. Project Newton First Bricks Have Been Laid

Oiltanking GmbH reached a milestone by implementing Denmark is famous for being home to the happiest people in the world – and to the beloved interlocking building blocks the first full-fledged version known as LEGO. Newton is an important building block for of Newton, a new Terminal Oiltanking, and recently our colleagues in Denmark reached a Operating System, at the significant milestone for this project. On March 30, 2016, the first fully-fledged version of Newton (release 2.0) was terminal in Copenhagen end successfully implemented at Oiltanking’s Copenhagen of March 2016. terminal.

Newton, Oiltanking’s custom-developed inventory management system, is designed to replace the outdated OSCAR system, offering new functionalities to colleagues and customers while reducing operating expenses long-term. Beyond the central functionalities of order execution, shipping documents, stock inventory, and customs administration, LET’S BUILD IT, TOGETHER Innovation facilitated Newton 2.0 includes a module for automated billing. The by efficient systems and processes is the future; billing module calculates storage charges, throughput, and colleagues at the Oiltanking terminal in Copenhagen additional charges such as services and overtime; even credit were the first to experience this notes are now possible.

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SOCIAL EVENT Colleagues had to turn themselves into filmmakers creating their own blockbuster during one day and could watch the films in the evening

AND THE WINNER IS… Two HSSE awards and three Oscars for filming merits were given to colleagues who convinced with their performances

And… Action! Some of the main themes of present the other Marquard & the meeting were the Bahls subsidiaries such as presentation of the Oiltanking Skytanking, Mabanaft and Bomin and Marquard & Bahls Strategy to the participants. Oiltanking’s annual Spring 2020, Project Spring, and our ongoing efforts to continuously Finally, the annual Oiltanking Meeting took place in April in improve our HSSE performance. HSSE awards were presented. Dublin, Ireland, this year. The meeting also offered a The Golden Lighthouse for the 115 Senior Oiltanking platform to our recently acquired Best HSSE Performance in 2015 and commissioned terminal went to Oiltanking Helios managers from all regions companies to present themselves Singapore. The White Lighthouse within the Oiltanking Group as “new kids on the block.” The for the Best HSSE Performance attended to network, get latest global geopolitical Improvement in 2015 went to developments and their Oiltanking Terneuzen. updates and share best implications on the world oil practices. The presentations markets were discussed as well. As the program also featured a and workshops were held in lot of fun events, all participants Various interactive workshops were energized and inspired to Guest speaker a very interactive manner. were organized on the second take the newly acquired Colleagues enjoyed the inspirational Partners LLC, a corporate advisory and day to allow for a more detailed knowledge back home to their speech of guest speaker Karl-Theodor investment firm headquartered in New dialogue in smaller groups on respective teams and zu Guttenberg on oil in the context of York that provides strategic counsel and the main themes of our meeting. organizations. geopolitical developments. investment insights on international A “Marketplace” was set up to Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is the political, economic, technology, and

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Managing WE Marquard & Bahls subsidiaries in general, and International Oiltanking in particular, operate worldwide. CAN, Assignments and Motivated and dedicated employees around the WE Compensation globe are the basis for the company's success, so the ability to assign employees all over the world under CARE within Marquard consistent conditions and centrally manage this is How can Global Mobility & very important. The idea is to have the right person at & Bahls Compensation ensure fairness the right place at the right time. The group-wide and clarity given the many section of the Human Resources (HR) Support different employee profiles, countries and laws? Function, the Community of Expertise (CoE) Global In order to offer attractive and Mobility & Compensation Management, plays an competitive assignment packages, essential role in this process. In our interview, Judith we regularly benchmark our policies against the market. The assignment Jähnke, Team Lead Global Mobility & Compensation policies ensure a consistent and Management, and Jennifer Warkentin, Team Assistant, transparent treatment of the explain the range of services they provide. employees to be assigned, regardless of their nationality or function. In particular, this refers to connections: What kind of work drafting contracts, calculating does the CoE of Global Mobility & compensation and allowances, as well as Compensation Management do? handling questions about tax and social This section of the HR Support Function is security matters. divided into two areas of responsibility. Global Moreover, a competitive and equitable Mobility is responsible for developing and compensation system is ensured by designing the Marquard & Bahls assignment developing a compensation policy, conducting policies. We ensure that the International job evaluations and benchmarking as well as Marquard & Bahls Assignment Policies designing (management) bonus systems, (currently long-term, short-term, and coordinating annual international salary developmental and trainee assignments) are increases and bonus rounds. put into practice in line with the company strategy and in compliance with international At what point of the assignment tax, immigration, social security laws, and do you enter the picture? visa regulations. Applying for and processing We are involved at the very latest once it is work and residence permits is part of our job decided that an employee will be going as well. We also offer further practical abroad, which is about six months before the support, such as organizing the move and assignment begins. intercultural training, as well as finding The move is only a small, albeit important housing and schools. part of the posting process. When our work Our Compensation Management team is begins it covers much more complex topics. responsible for the strategic planning, design The support required is clearly greatest COMMUNITY OF EXPERTISE The combined Global Mobility & Compensation Management team has existed since mid- and implementation of group-wide before and in the early days of the assignment. 2013 (from left: Janina Krebs-Rietbrock, Judith Jähnke, compensation programs based on our But our job does not stop there. During the Jennifer Warkentin, Laura Schulte and Veit Lenk) company’s strategy and values. assignment abroad, too, we clarify many

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Air Pulsing

THE TEAM'S Mixing/Blending is a frequently requested CONVICTION Making the value-added service which Oiltanking provides colleagues to customers. The two most common methods and closing the solenoid feel home in a for proper blending and mixing of products is valves and a circular foreign country achieved by the use of mechanical mixers, and motion begins to take (re)circulation systems involving a pump. shape. Is that it? Not However Oiltanking Helios in Singapore uses a really … The real magic issues, such as how to handle exchange rate household goods that can be imported, etc.). This is different and unique solution for heavy fuel oil is in the air and how the fluctuations. Our work usually does not end until six not always easy and things need to be clearly known as air pulsing. air moves not just in a months after the assignment ends. arranged with all parties involved. It never gets lateral direction but vertically boring in our function. Unforeseen and sometimes as well. When air is released into the tank in How many colleagues are employed unusual things are always happening. Once an large bursts, this is done using an in the CoE? assignee’s container was stolen with his entire accumulator plate. As the air is directed At the moment Laura Schulte works in the Global household goods. Once an assignee’s cat escaped downward, it forms around the accumulator Mobility team as a Global Mobility Expert and at the airport despite being sedated, and was only plate and begins its upward journey. Giant Jennifer Warkentin as a Team Assistant. In early found after a few days and then put on the plane. bubbles push the product above them to the July, we expect Verena Pohlmann back from parental side and downward, while heavier product is leave, who will then actively support the team as Are many of the international assignees pulled upward by the rising bubble. an Expert. The Compensation Management permanently on the go? team consists of Compensation We do have a few “global nomads” – This solution has several advantages Managers Janina Krebs-Rietbrock employees who go to a different for Oiltanking Helios: and Veit Lenk. Both teams are led country for the company every tanks with just one common product by Judith Jähnke. three to five years. However, pipeline for product movement, which more than half of our assignees reduces investment cost during To what extent is your are on their first assignment and construction department in contact with repatriate back to their home EFFECTIVE MOTION Bubbles cause air pulsing is independent of the heavier product to rise to other HR Support Functions? country afterwards. In this pumps, making them available the surface. This illustration is a We are in regular contact with context, our global mobility schematic and extremely simplified for other value-added services our international HR colleagues. strategy is an important factor for diagram of the air pulsing system. such as pump overs Every assignment involves the HR effective personnel planning. air compressors consume much functions of both the home and the The system is simple in design and execution, less energy than pumps and mixers host country, and the management. but highly effective and advantageous. A (1/4 of that used by traditional side-entry We are in regular contact especially when Have you yourself moved often? primary air supply line is fed from the central air mixers and 1/5 of pump circulators) planning the assignment and at the beginning, but Everyone on our team has already lived abroad compressor system to the top of the tank. At fewer moving parts and ease of also during the assignment, e.g. during the salary themselves, and some have actually been on the top of the tank, the single air-line is divided serviceability due to components being increase and bonus rounds. international assignments. So besides their into several lines, each passing through an located outside the tank shell professional experience they also have a lot of independent solenoid valve. Each solenoid valve What are the main challenges you face? intercultural experience. We know from first-hand is controlled by a simple programmable logic Using the air pulsing method provides Because of the ever-changing constellations of the experience how important a smooth relocation is, controller (PLC), which gives the instruction to Oiltanking Helios the ability to offer a reliable assignee’s nationality, home country, and host and above all, where you are moving to. You have open and close each solenoid. The air-lines are mixing solution for heavy fuel oil at a lower country, there is always the challenge of ensuring to feel at home in the foreign country, especially routed to the tank shell back to the bottom of operating cost – a win-win for customers and that the assignee is sent abroad on time and when your real home is far away. the tank. Each air-line branches out to create a Oiltanking Helios. according to the rules in the host country (e.g. visa spider web-like layout across the tank bottom. and employment regulations, rules regarding the The PLC dictates a particular pattern of opening

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Not a Waste New Dutch legislation necessitated the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant at Oiltanking Amsterdam. As we go to print, the brand-new Amsterdam’s installation is being commissioned in preparation for full-time operation. of Space: New Wastewater With a total capacity of 1,701,937 cbm and a Treatment Plant surface area of approx 55 hectare (the size of 77 soccer fields – 68 by 105 meter), the terminal in Amsterdam is one of Oiltanking’s biggest terminals worldwide. The Netherlands happen to have a serious amount of rainfall; in fact, annual rainfall has steadily increased over the past 106 years from 695 mm to 880 mm, due to increased rainfall intensity and more days of rain. A new wastewater treatment plant was designed and built to be able to process this high volume of rainwater RAIN OR SHINE onsite and discharge it directly into the harbor. A state- The installation with the of-the-art installation is also necessary in order to meet two stripping towers is statutory requirements which will become more on the cutting edge of wastewater treatment stringent this year. The current installation is built to 2. Stripping towers (11 m high). The process up to 250 cbm/hour of mildly contaminated wastewater stream is injected at the top, while rainwater streams, but could be expanded in the (near) ventilators blow air through the column from the future to accommodate heavily contaminated streams bottom. This process allows for extracting even as well. soluble products, such as MTBE and BTEX, from the water. The installation is relatively simple and consists of two main parts: As the wastewater treatment facility nears 1. Oil-water separators. Here, the water flows completion, Oiltanking Amsterdam looks back on a through several compartments. Low density streams, very interesting project, which may even serve as such as oil, and high density streams, such as solids, a pilot for other terminals. are separated from the wastewater.

SCHEMATIC IMAGE The stripping tower (left) and the oil-water separator technique (coalescing flow interceptor, CFI), right Cleaned Air gas and air collect gas and Outlet Adjustable weir Adjustable weir Inlet air cleaned Oil skimmer stripping tower Oil layer

Oil water sprayed over globules Grit packing material trap packing material

air rises through packing material water trickles to bottom

polluted air blower water Sludge Parallel plate assembly clean water pump

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animated films in a career spanning over 70 years, won many awards and Moving recognitions, among them three Oscars as director and a honorary Oscar for pictures Lifetime Achievement. SITES – the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition on the Service – began developing and circulating exhibitions in 1952 in order to bring a wide variety of objects to the American public. It takes exhibitions not only to museums, Move but also to libraries, science centers, historical societies, community centers, botanical gardens, schools, and shopping malls. SITES has more than 50 exhibitions on HILARIOUS RIVALRY Chuck Jones' tour at any given time, with as many as 20 more in hand drawing a scene showing various stages of planning and production. The program Elmer Fudd who is always easily includes exhibitions on art, the humanities, and science. confused by Bugs Bunny

“What’s up doc?” can be seen in St. Paul, MN, in the Minnesota History Center (April 30, 2016 – August 14, 2016), and then travels to Huntsville, AL, where it will be ANIMATION ART Viewers “What’s Up, Doc?” is on exhibit at the Huntsville Museum of Art (October 15, of all ages continue to 2016 – January 22, 2017). delight in the characters the title of a created by “Chuck” Jones Smithsonian traveling exhibit featuring 23 of Chuck Jones’ animated films and more than 136 original sketches and drawings showing how he and his team worked together to create cinematic magic.

“What’s up, Doc?” is the name of a new travelling exhibition featuring moving pictures – the animation art of Charles Martin “Chuck” Jones (1912-2002). It reveals the creative CHUCK JONES The genius behind some of the most enduringly director and artist popular cartoons and animated films of all time. Generations of brought to life some of Animation An illusion of movements kids and adults grew up with his inventions and creations, the most iconic cartoon and changes created the rapid display of characters in the including timeless animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, © Courtesy of Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, Looney Tunes Characters © & TM a series of static images that differ only history of animation the perpetually exasperated Daffy Duck, the hapless but Warner Bros. 2016 © Courtesy of Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, Looney Tunes very slightly from each other. The Characters are © & TM Warner Bros. 2016 © Courtesy of Chuck Jones Center for optimistic Elmer Fudd, the incurably romantic Pepé Le Pew, Creativity, Looney Tunes Characters are © & TM Warner Bros. 2016 to © Film still illusion is ascribed to the phi phenomenon and the eternal antagonists Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, to courtesy Warner Bros., Looney Tunes Characters © & TM Warner Bros. as defined by Max Wertheimer in 1912. name just a few. “What’s up Doc?” is an entertaining exploration Thanks to the friendly assistance of Chuck Jones Center for Creativity and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Service (SITES) of his influence and legacy. Jones, who created more than 300

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Indian Ambassador Visits iotl.com – Same Place, New Address ‘Goodwill Ambassadors’ JUST A CLICK AWAY Receiving information made easy and secure with IOTL as the new keyword March 25, 2016, was a day of Over the past few months, IOT Infrastructure and Energy Services Ltd excitement and pride for our (IOT) has consolidated its online presence by changing its website name, IOT colleagues at the ARP email addresses and Intranet to a common domain name: iotl.com. Refinery Project in Aliaga, as they welcomed the Honorable IOT Infrastructure and Energy Services Ltd The full version comes packed with features like the Rahul Kulshreshth, India’s (IOT) has updated its cyber-identity. It started by IOT directory, IOT Knowledge Base, birthday Ambassador to Turkey, to the simplifying the email correspondence for employees reminders, and a live list of new employees. It whose addresses existed on different domain names provides comprehensive information to all facility. like @oiltanking.com, @iotinfraenergy.com and employees regardless of their location. @iotgroup.in. This made for an unmanageable It’s rare for a regular workday to end multiplicity of email addresses and cluttered address The keystone of IOT’s digital consolidation is the on such a highly patriotic note. For the IOT books, creating a risk of delayed communications relocation of its website to a much simpler domain Infrastructure & Energy Services Ltd (IOT) and miscommunication. Now the rule of thumb for name, www.iotl.com. Shorter names bring the team, working as part of the IOT VITO Joint any email address in the IOTL fold is simply: advantage of simplicity and are more easily Venture at the ARP Refinery Project in [email protected]. This easy-to- remembered, thus ensuring a wider reach. Also, the Aliaga, Turkey, March 25th was a red-letter remember nomenclature ensures the prompt acronym IOTL itself has a distinctive ring. While day. The Honorable Rahul Kulshreshth, delivery of email to the right person within moments. IOTL is the core and the life-blood of the group’s India’s Ambassador to Turkey, visited the daily activities, its operational platforms are now site and spent nearly half a day with the For the uninitiated, migrating email accounts and more united than ever before. With IOTL as the staff. The meeting was the result of persistent their contents from one domain to another may keyword in the address of every platform, all roads efforts and networking with the Indian sound like a simple “drag and drop” process. In lead “home.” mission in Turkey. It meant a great deal to reality, the migration was fraught with difficulties the Indian staff to have their country’s most like date & time mismatches, emails going missing influential expatriate in their midst. after migration, and incomplete address books, but the IOT engineers rose to the challenge and met The Ambassador expressed his appreciation their deadlines. for the team’s efforts on the project as well E-MAIL as their Corporate Social Responsibility Ebuzz, IOT’s Intranet has transcended all your.name (CSR) efforts and praised their intercultural A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR Our IOT colleagues were excited geographical barriers and is now available to @iotl.com activities, saying he had "never seen any and proud to receive the Indian Ambassador to Turkey in terminals and Engineering, Procurement, international company putting in so much person (second from left, lowermost picture) at the terminal and Construction (EPC) sites across the effort." He was referring to the IOT VITO world. Ebuzz is an excellent interactive team’s enthusiastic CSR initiatives in Turkey, platform that brings the latest news and which have included donating a floor-cleaning machine to consular issues. Apart from this, he reiterated his assurance views in the organization to the homepage WEBSITE the local school, educating children on cleanliness and of personal support for any urgent matters. Several people scrollbar. It is also a single-window system INTRANET www.iotl.com hygiene, and donating sports equipment to promising but on IOT’s Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) for administrative tasks like filing travel ebuzz.iotl. disadvantaged talent. These initiatives reflect the IOT VITO teams work far away from their homeland on high- requests and ordering business cards. The com:9045 team’s values of respect and care, and have made them commitment projects, and such visits and acknowledgement beta version was available at the Head Office very popular with the locals. by eminent authorities encourage them and help them feel and Navghar terminals from November 2015, that their efforts are appreciated. and at all IOT locations by the end of February. The Ambassador assured IOT VITO his office’s support in the future, and provided solutions to many of the colleagues’

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Moving Works of Art

Trucks, often colorfully painted and artistically decorated, keep the Indian © IOT economy moving. They are a HOME AWAY common sight on Indian roads FROM HOME Drivers often spend long hours in their trucks, undergoing a transformation where hand-made Truck cabins racking up the miles as they deliver goods to decorations are being increasingly replaced by and also at the terminals are also often even the most remote places in a country that factory-made decals and vinyl stickers. The art operated & maintained by artistically decorated spans 3,2 million sqkm. Often they are away form will survive as long as truck manufacturing IOT, like the Bahadurgarh from their families for weeks at a time, so their companies continue to make the cabin and Terminal in Northern India. trucks become their second home. The amount chassis, but the hand-made art created in truck spent on beautifying their truck depends on how building workshops across India is facing We invite you to take much the truckers can afford, of course. However, competition from modern-day technology. “Horn a look at this as they take great pride in their moving works of Please” is my way of paying homage to this art traditional art art, they often go to great lengths of creativity to form and the artists who practice it,” explains ensure a nice-looking ride, much to the pleasure Shantanu. form! of their fellow travelers. More about the truck art and The various aspects of this age-old Indian art Project “Horn Please”: form are impressively encapsulated in “Horn http://projecthornplease.com Please” — a documentary by Shantanu Suman and his team. The film focuses on the origins and evolution of Indian truck art. “Truck art is “HORN PLEASE” The sign often seen on Indian trucks has become a popular Indian idiom

AMBASSADORS OF TRADITIONAL ART FORM Indian truck drivers and owners use their vehicle to share their messages with the world © All photographs by Shantanu Suman for “Horn Please” if not stated otherwise by © All photographs

In India, colorfully adorned trucks are but that’s not all! They also convey the a unique and age-old form of folk art. At owner and/or driver’s personal the same time they are an expression of convictions, religious beliefs and attitudes individualism. “Horn Please” is the to life. The decor often has some base in message to other drivers to honk before superstition. A demon’s face painted on passing and is seen on the back of almost the front of the truck, or red chilies every Indian truck on the road. The dangling from the bumper might be a trucks, a moving palette of bright colors, way to ward off bad luck. Shoes tied to motifs, typography and adornments, the bottom of the truck are believed to definitely have an aesthetic purpose – help shield against the evil eye.

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On the PORTRAIT Coen Huebner began his career at to Jakarta for three and a half years as Oiltanking Amsterdam in 1982. In 2005 President Director of the terminal in Move he moved to Dubai to take up his position Merak. In 2015, he moved to Singapore Our Dutch colleague Coen Huebner is well established at Oiltanking, having been as Commercial Manager. After spending as Business Development Manager with the company for nearly 34 years. During this time, he has served in various two years there and returning to before going on to Sohar in May 2016, Amsterdam in his function as Managing where he now serves as CEO of Oiltanking positions in a number of countries. For connections, he shares his impressions about Director for another five years, he moved Odfjell Terminals Oman. a career on the move.

along the air-conditioning pipe. I pointed this out to exactly on time – and takes ten minutes, maximum. DUBAI the waiter with the words “Look, a rat!” – he Quite the opposite to Jakarta, where opening a bank interpreted my exclamation as an order for “A red account is a bureaucratic process involving four (wine) for you Pak (Bahasa, meaning Sir)." Although weeks and more than 20 signatures. Unfortunately, many people live in very poor conditions, you’ll our stay in Singapore was only for 14 months – there always see them smiling and trying to make the best would have been so many more nice parks, places of it. Jakarta is a place where you will never cease to and restaurants (!) to explore. be frustrated by the traffic jams, but overall we have very fond memories of the time we spent living there. Since May 1, 2016, we have been living in Sohar, Oman. The container has just arrived and 250 boxes From poor, chaotic, dirty, and huge Indonesia we of household goods are waiting patiently to be moved to the well-organized, clean and wealthy tiny unpacked. We have not had the chance to explore island state of Singapore in March 2015. Opening a the city in detail but our first impression tells us that bank account here takes 20 minutes including getting this city is yet again completely different from all the your bank pass. Applying for and getting your others we have lived in. Now we feel that we really immigration pass takes place by appointment and live in the Middle East, unlike when we were in Dubai.

Back in 2005 my wife and I embarked on the In November 2014 I set foot in Jakarta for the first adventure of exchanging our hometown of Amsterdam time. What a move! From a lively European city in the Netherlands, for Dubai in the United Arab with a population of 800,000 to a bustling Asian Emirates, where I took up my first job abroad. Since megalopolis of 12 million people. Jakarta isn’t the then we’ve kept on moving … though at an cleanest place in the world, with daily smog caused JAKARTA intermittent pace. After “fuelling up” on warmth in by permanent traffic congestion, open sewage drains, Dubai for two years, we returned to Amsterdam, and often a lack of proper waste disposal. However, where we were greeted not only by family and the people and the food make up for this and make friends, but also the familiar rain! Five years later, it the city an unforgettable place to live. Sometimes was time to say good-bye again when we moved to things can get a bit lost in translation but learning a Jakarta, Indonesia. bit of Bahasa helps you get around. Once I was ordering lunch in a restaurant and saw a rat crawling NO SECRET Indonesia faces various urban challenges like urban sprawl and congestion

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A Winning SINGA- PORE Move!

In 2016, Oiltanking Colombia introduced its ACTIVE BREAK

© Leung Cho Pan/123RF.COM program for its office staff – a HAPPY MEMORIES The posting in Singapore was not long, but intense and very enjoyable move that promotes a healthy lifestyle by encouraging colleagues Here we are reminded of the many tales in while. But moving around, leaving your Arabian Nights. Again, there is so much to comfortable home base and working with to exercise. explore and we will see what the next chapter different cultures broadens your horizon, TAKE A BREAK Moving means winning, as staying active increases productivity looks like. thoughts and knowledge, which I find a fantastic and recommendable adventure. Last Amsterdam is where my roots are, and also but not least it really helped us a lot that my where my family and friends live. Oiltanking’s new and old colleagues as well as the Human The operations function of occur at any time of the day and are Enhanced concentration Amsterdam terminal is where I started my Resources Support Functions did their best to Oiltanking Colombia has been led by the HSSEQ function. But those and attention career and learned most aspects of the make our arrivals, stays and departures as performing workplace exercise who don’t usually exercise need not Improved posture. terminal business – so obviously we look pleasant and comfortable as possible. routines since 2012. With the company fear – the active breaks don’t forward to visiting our hometown once in a value of "Health and Safety at Work" in necessarily involve complex exercises; In addition to the above, it has been mind, Oiltanking in Colombia it is the gentle stretching and proven that workplace exercise MOVING EXPERIENCES At each location, introduced its Value Promotion movement that makes all the correlates with improved job the Oiltanking family culture is clearly Program in 2016 and implemented the difference. And, though five minutes satisfaction, higher production quality, felt and a pleasure to come home to ACTIVE BREAK program for office may sound like very little, the effects a decrease in lost workdays and hours, workers (in Engineering, Finance, of the movement are large. Some of fewer workplace accidents, and even a OMAN Logistics, and Human Resources). The the benefits of active breaks are: reduction in workplace conflict. So this program covers several of the is truly a winning move! company’s functions such as the Reduced muscle tension Health, Safety, Security, Environment Prevention of ailments such as and Quality (HSSEQ), Corporate Social muscle spasms Responsibility and Human Resources. Reduced stress and fatigue

The company is aware that there are ACTIVE COLLEAGUES two groups of workers on the facilities, The exercises can be so to speak: one that engages in a lot performed at any time of physical activity related to the during the day operation of the terminal, while the other is more sedentary. This latter group mainly comprises the office staff. The ACTIVE BREAK program involves 5-minute sessions of muscle- stretching exercises during the workday. The exercise sessions can small picture left and big picture right © Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman; www.omantourism.de

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NEW CHAPTER Mozambique

North EUROPE gained independence from Atlantic Portugal in 1975 and after Ocean a 16-year civil war is slowly gaining economic momentum Mediterranean Sea MIDDLE EAST

Oiltanking’s AFRICI A Arabian Sea other landlocked to go into operation in the third

Indian countries in the southern quarter of 2016. As Oiltanking has New ‘Pearl’ Ocean cone of Africa. The port already been approached by clients South Atlantic MOZAMBIQUE was very busy before the about more capacity, chances are Ocean war and is now on track quite good for a Phase 2 extension On April 28, 2016 to returning to its pre- soon. Meanwhile, Oiltanking MEA is Oiltanking inked a deal Matola war throughput levels. looking at several other projects in with Galana to buy a East Africa to leverage synergies In Phase 1, the and further expand its footprint on majority stake in a Oiltanking terminal will the continent. terminal currently have a capacity of under construction in Oiltanking is investing in approximately 60,000 cbm. It will Mozambique to capitalize on this be equipped with truck- and rail- Matola, Mozambique. strategic location. In April, loading gantries, as Matola is linked This step gives Oiltanking finalized the deal to by rail to Zimbabwe, South Africa Oiltanking a foothold in purchase the terminal in Matola, and Swaziland. The terminal is which is part of the port of Maputo, located very close to a liquid jetty another country on the the capital city. The port serves the that can accommodate vessels of African continent. Maputo-Johannesburg route and up to 40,000 DWT, and is scheduled GREAT PROSPECTS Oiltanking welcomes its second country on the African continent to its world-wide portfolio of terminals

Mozambique is a southern African country whose 2,500 kilometer of sandy beaches stretch from Tanzania to South Africa, hence its nickname “the Pearl of the Indian Ocean.” Just two years after gaining its independence from Portugal in INKING THE DEAL IN DUBAI 1975, the nation descended into Discovered in 1498 by Vasco da Gama, Mozambique a 16-year civil war which today offers Oiltanking new destroyed the infrastructure and made it one of the world’s opportunities poorest countries. In the past decade, the only Portuguese- speaking country of East Africa has made a slow recovery. Now, having just celebrated its 41st “birthday” on June 25, Mozambique is back on the global map thanks to its ever- welcoming people, recent gas discoveries, and renewed interest in its strategic location, with ports serving the likes of Swaziland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and even the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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‘No Matter the Weather, For workers at Oiltanking Odfjell Terminals Oman precautions are in place to secure the health and We Work Together’ (OOTO) in Sohar, temperature differences are nothing safety of the colleagues and customers exposed to new: while air-conditioners keep the air inside the such an extreme climate. office building cool, as soon as you go outside, you feel like you’re in a sauna. Sohar has a hot desert For employees working outside, Summer Ban Hours climate with very hot summers and mild winters with apply, a stipulation introduced throughout the Gulf yearly average temperatures of 24 °C (low) and 33 °C countries by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that (high) – 24 hours! November to February are usually prohibits employees from working in direct sunlight the “cool” months, followed by a slow but steady for the three hours from 12:30 to 3:30 pm during climb in temperature until the hottest months of June, July and August. All of the facility’s offices as June, July and August, with temperatures of well as the waiting area for truck drivers are up to 50 °C. Not to mention the air-conditioned. A regular rotation for constant humidity ranging outside work is mandatory to between 60 to 70 percent. ensure a balanced work schedule. During Ramadan, Last year’s and especially the maintenance team is this year’s Ramadan, divided into two shifts: the holy month of one from 7 a.m. to 1 fasting (from June 7 p.m., the other 12 to July 6, 2016), WORKING AT a.m. to 6 p.m. As was very hard on every degree helps, the Muslim staff. new overalls have The period coincided 5 0 C been ordered for the with a hot month ˚ staff, in lighter colors and the one with the OUTSIDE to avoid heat longest day on the TEMPERATURE absorption. Their northern hemisphere. safety glasses are The sun rose at 3.50 always sunglasses with a.m. and set at 6.55 p.m., optimal eye protection leaving religious colleagues against the bright light. In ORDINARY OUTDOOR without food and water for addition, plenty of 20-liter CONDITIONS almost 15 hours. Once the sun Temperatures around water coolers with electrolytes set, colleagues made sure they 50°C are nothing to write powder sachets are well positioned drank a lot of water during the iftar* home about in Oman for easy access by employees as well and ate vegetables and fruit as contractors. If employees have to containing a lot of water and go outside they use air-conditioned essential minerals and vitamins, like watermelon and cars and are encouraged to take their camel pack bananas. But the secret, apparently, is to eat dates, (water backpack containing four liters of water) with IT’S ALL ABOUT as they provide numerous health benefits! them. Every employee has also received an insulated SAFETY Khalid Al While summers in Europe are generally pleasant water bottle to keep the water cool. Finally, OOTO Mazrouei, operator, is The terminal is quite busy and handles roughly 1.4 requests that employees stop all outside work when well protected against at around 20 °C to 25 °C, in Oman temperatures million MT of product each month, which involves temperatures rise to 48 °C or above. the heat of 50 °C are not uncommon. How do our colleagues loading and discharging around 70 vessels. How can at Oiltanking Odfjell Terminals Oman (OOTO) in the staff cope with the requirements given these working conditions? As at all other Oiltanking * iftar, the evening meal when Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset Sohar cope with the heat? terminals, the most important rule at OOTO is “safety first,” so a number of special measures and

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READY FOR THE FIRST CLIENT The large-scale crude oil transshipment terminal at Port of Açu offers customers state-of-the-art transshipment facilities

Moving Ahead Fast in Brazil

T-Oil in the Port of Açu, Brazil’s first independent crude oil transshipment “Being part of this project and seeing the terminal, is scheduled to be operational terminal ready to operate makes you feel by end of July 2016 (as of the editorial like you’ve helped to write history not only deadline). Our colleagues at Oiltanking for Oiltanking but also for the Brazilian are poised to operate and manage port industry.” the handling of crude at the IMPORTANT LOCATION Filipe Soares, Project Coordinator Port of Açu is a cornerstone terminal. of the Brazilian supply chain “We are eager to move on to the next phase and commence crude oil transshipment operations at Port of Açu. At the same time, we are reviewing the possibilities of capitalizing on this situation for additional new projects. There are many opportunities to be explored for consolidating and expanding our presence in Brazil. In fact, we are working on giving Port of Açu is not just one of Oiltanking’s simulated a major spill at the terminal and T-Oil a ‘baby brother’ soon,” says Filipe Soares, commenting most recent projects but also one with many involved more than 40 people from various on the company’s next steps in Brazil. superlatives: getting it going was a pioneering institutions. task and a real challenge for Oiltanking. T-Oil, as the Port of Açu Crude Oil Terminal is called, Port of Açu is the largest port in the Americas CONSEQUENCES The terminal will have a is the first independent crude oil transshipment with 17 kilometer of quay, over 90 sqkm of great positive impact on the logistics and terminal in Brazil, and commencement of land, and a channel depth of 24 m, which makes economics of the petroleum sector in Brazil operations is scheduled for the second half of it suitable for receiving the largest class of July 2016. Over the past six months, 20 new oceangoing vessels. Its strategic location near colleagues have been trained to operate T-Oil. the Campos and Santos Basins, which together They will be joined by three “veterans” from account for over 80 percent of Brazilian oil the Oiltanking terminal in Vitória. production, makes the port suitable for servicing the oil and gas industry. It also gives the port During the permitting process, two major drills an extremely important competitive advantage were successfully conducted to obtain the over any other existing transshipment necessary environmental permits granted. The operations in Brazil or the region. Most first drill was with Rio de Janeiro´s firefighting importantly, it is the safest option, as the brigade, to test the massive firefighting system operations will be performed in a sheltered area that can deploy 900 cbm of water per hour. The surrounded by containment barriers, and second drill was more complex and supervised comprehensive oil emergency spill protection by Brazil´s Environmental Agency, INEA. It equipment and services are in place.

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“I think of SLEEP as an experiment into Reasons to The acclaimed contemporary how music and the composer Max Richter has mind can interact in Celebrate written an eight-hour piece of this other state of music meant to serve as a consciousness.” sleep aid. His ultimate goal is simply to help people to take time out from the constant hustle and bustle they are surrounded with. Let’s have a look at project “SLEEP” without ruffle or excitement, please.

FIRST CALL The first maritime The German-born Briton Max Richter operation was the arrival of June 1, 2016 marked the end of the first year of (born March 22, 1966), is hailed as the the ship Hafnia Phoenix, from successful operation for Oiltanking Puerto Bahía in which 135,000 barrels of most influential composer of his generation. Colombia – and of a year with plenty of highlights. Naphta were received The electro-acoustic polymath defies definition: composer he may be, but he is also pianist, producer, remixer, and SLEEP On June 1, 2015, one of Colombia’s most important With this wide range of services and facilities provided to collaborator, and beyond argument one of liquid terminals, operated by Oiltanking at Puerto Bahía, customers of the Puerto Bahía terminal, Oiltanking Puerto the most prolific of contemporary musical in 31 Movements Terry © Mike started up operations with the receipt of its first tank trucks Bahía is gradually coming to meet the expectations placed artists. Inspired equally by Bach, punk of crude oil. The first maritime operation followed swiftly in it: becoming one of the preferred partners in Colombia. rock and ambient electronica, Richter’s with the discharging of 135,000 barrels of Naphta from the sonic world blends a formal classical training with modern coincidence. It is the equivalent of a (good) night’s rest. Hafnia Phoenix. Thanks to its proximity to the Cartagena technology. Max Richter is known for his prolific output, Unfortunately, people nowadays generally do not get refinery, its storage capacity and its ability to accommodate PROSPERING BUSINESS In its first year of composing and recording his own music; writing for stage, enough sleep, which can trigger profound physical and deep-draft vessels, including Very Large Crude Carriers operation, the terminal received 11,522,051 barrels opera, ballet and screen; producing and collaborating on mental symptoms. Having often lamented the pace of the (VLCC), Puerto Bahía meets the market’s needs and the of product and dispatched 10,093,597 barrels the records of others; and collaborating with performance, modern world, Max Richter consulted with the renowned need for economies of scale and has become a well- installation and media artists. He has recorded seven solo American neuroscientist David Eagleman on how music can established terminal. albums and his music is widely used in cinema. relate to the sleep state and incorporated their conversations into the compositional process. His groundbreaking work is Since this auspicious launch, Puerto Bahía has expanded its An invitation to dream an ever-shifting set that webs together string quartets and operations, adding new products to its range. It received In 2015 he published his album SLEEP, which he describes electronic droning sounds, tense duets for piano and violin, its first shipment of diesel from the MT AXEL, carrying a as “his personal lullaby for a frenetic world and an eight- and somnolent keyboard meditations. volume of 290,000 barrels. This diesel helped Colombia hour place to rest.” The world premiere of this composition, avoid the implementation of power rationing, a measure which is meant to be heard whilst sleeping, was performed Check out an audio sample, here: that was impending due to the severe drought the country live in the Wellcome Collection’s Reading Room* in London https://www.youtube.com/ faced towards the end of 2015 and into the beginning of from midnight on September 26, 2015 to 8 a.m. on watch?v=N6aFKng8-sc this year. September 27. A small audience was invited to sleep over Official Website: amongst the bookshelves and artefacts, while BBC Radio 3 www.maxrichtermusic.com During its first year of operation, Oiltanking Services also The Puerto Bahía terminal has an estimated broadcast the eight hours of 31 uninterrupted pieces of serviced the Suezmax Barcelona Spirit, the largest vessel capacity of 2.6 million barrels, distributed across music at the same time. Actually, it was also the longest- ever to enter the Bay of Cartagena. She carried 702,000 eight tanks of approximately 330,000 barrels each, ever live broadcast of a single continuous piece of music. barrels of crude oil. On May 25, 2016, not quite a year after for the handling of crude oil, naphtha and distillates. *The Wellcome Collection is the free visitor destination for the incurably curious. Located at 183 Euston Road, London, it explores the connections the start of operations, the terminal received its 50th ship. The fact that Max Richter’s SLEEP is eight hours long is no between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future.

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Moving In July 2015, Oiltanking Colombia launched its “Innotanking” innovation EL NIÑO Ideas program. Why this interest Joy and Sorrow in innovation and what are to Generate Value the results so far? The weather phenomenon El Niño has terminal in Colombia has benefited had a negative impact on our climate, from it, having played a supporting Since antiquity, human beings have constantly had to treated water to maintain the terminal’s new green zone. and its environmental effects are role in keeping the country’s electricity adapt to their environment, to keep evolving and coming Carlos Rivero, Health, Safety, Security, Environment up with new ways of doing things to increase their chances (HSSE) Manager for Oiltanking Puerto Bahía, the idea being felt worldwide. But the Oiltanking supply up and running. of survival in an ever-changing world. This applies in generator, is currently working with his team to put this business as well, where ideas and their implementation idea into practice. The goal is to significantly reduce the create transformation and generate value with a specific wastewater treatment plant’s costs of disposal while also El Niño is a weather phenomenon The latest El Niño phenomenon began in objective in mind. For Oiltanking Colombia, innovation increasing what the terminal does for the environment. The that affects the surface temperature of northern South America in the fourth neatly sums up this concept. long-term and overriding objective of Innotanking is to the eastern equatorial in the Pacific, quarter of 2015 and continued through foster a culture of innovation and movement by generating leading to a decrease in rainfall and the first quarter of 2016. Consequently “Innovation invites us to move, to get out of our comfort ideas that create strategic value for Oiltanking Colombia. humidity in tropical and Andean regions the river beds dried out. In order to zone, to wake up, to be aware of the environment and in South America. El Niño occurs maintain its electricity supply the country customers, to look for new opportunities and changes that irregularly, approximately every two to was forced to generate electricity with arise along the way. It’s also the knowledge that anything seven years. Its consequences affect thermal power plants, which run primarily can be changed if we are not satisfied with what we have agriculture and livestock and life in on natural gas, fuel oil and diesel. achieved so far,” explains Leddy Evangelista, Managing general. El Niño generates strong Director Oiltanking Colombia. Oiltanking encourages its pressure on inflation rates as it leads to One man’s sorrow is another man’s joy. employees to solve situations in a creative manner. These scarcity of basic food products. In For the Oiltanking terminal in Colombia, ideas are manifested in Oiltanking Colombia’s innovation addition, the decline of water in reservoirs El Niño was a commercial boon. program Innotanking with the slogan “Your ideas, our and river levels affects electricity future”. So far, Innotanking has been a good source of generation. ideas to generate value. In 2016, more than 700 ideas have already been generated by the employees. Of these, The country’s 18 are being analyzed to determine whether they are electricity supply is feasible and effective. With the support of internal, regional heavily dependent or outside experts, the employee who generates an idea on its extensive can study in detail the potential solution and the options system of hydro- for implementing it. On a quarterly basis, the best ideas generation units are recognized, individually, and also within the team that that cover almost had the most innovative idea. 70 percent of the country’s total One brilliant example from the project is "Design an requirements. irrigation system for a new green zone that reuses water from the Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Oiltanking Puerto Bahía." The assignment is to reuse POSITIVE IMPACT Diesel turnover at the Oiltanking "YOUR IDEAS, OUR FUTURE” Creativity, terminal in Colombia knowledge and organization form the moves in one direction: basis of project Innotanking upwards and steeply

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“Metropolis” is the largest project to date from the renowned Dutch photographer Martin Roemers. In his multi-layered photographs he captures the energy, chaos, activity and movement of megacities in a fascinating, palpable way. Cities That Never Sleep

Around the interesting figure he’s spotted standing world, one in eight still enough and at just the right people now live in moment? From his viewpoint, Martin megacities. Intrigued Roemers waits patiently until by this process of everything falls into place. The results urbanization, Martin include the 80 photographs published Roemers travelled in his latest book, “Metropolis”. The across five continents exhibition by the same name opened to 22 megacities in Amsterdam in December 2015 and between 2007 and will travel around the world this year. 2015, to capture Exhibitions are in Dubai, New Delhi, images of the human condition in New York and more cities. modern cities. Every photograph is multi-layered and one finds more and The Dutch artist studied photography more new details the more one looks at the Academy of Arts in Enschede, at it. One can almost feel the The Netherlands. In his more than 20 cacophony and the hustle and bustle year-career as a photographer, his on the streets, and the pulsating work has appeared in numerous energy of the cities. esteemed publications and has been exhibited widely. It is also featured in Roemers’ photographic form involves permanent collections including those choosing a high vantage point at one of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and of the busiest locations of the city he the Ford Foundation in New York and wants to capture. From this spot he Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, takes analog photographs using a long Texas. Martin Roemers has also exposure time to capture the received much recognition and dynamism of that particular city. He numerous awards including two World carefully considers which elements to Press Photo Awards. include in the photograph, and which to omit. Vehicles? A rickshaw? An © all pictures: Martin Roemers / Laif, Courtesy Barthouse Berlin, www.laif.de / Laif, © all pictures: Martin Roemers

METROPOLIS Martin Roemers' latest book, is about life in megacities. He has previously More about his work at published several others on various topics http://www.martinroemers.com

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Æ The ‘Other’ Rolling Stones

The word “moving” can The movements of the “rolling special global positioning devices stones” (a.k.a. “sailing stones” or and time-lapse photography to have several meanings: it “sliding rocks”) found in track the rock movements for a can refer to something California’s Death Valley National year between the end of December that touches one’s Park may be followed with as 2013 and January 2014, and much interest as those of the concluded that the phenomenon is emotions, or to the physical eponymous rock band. How, why caused by ice sheets. The stones action of displacing persons or and when these stones weighing move only given very specific and objects, or to changing one’s up to 300 kg move around – rare weather conditions (rain one apparently on their own – on a dry day, frost during the night followed residence. Let’s make a move and lake bed remained an unsolved by light breezes and sunshine in look at our selection of examples. mystery. But there are several the morning). Meanwhile, Spanish theories about what goes on at scientists ascribe the movement “Racetrack Playa,” so called for to microorganisms and the the trails the rocks leave in the slippery substances they secrete. mud. American researchers used

Æ Food on the Move! Æ ‘And yet it moves!’ INTERESTING MYSTERIES How the massive stones of Tracking down the cutlery to eat a meal is so Legend has it that the Italian Death Valley National Park can yesterday! Nowadays you might find yourself mathematician, physicist and move has mystified visitors and trying to catch the food itself. Minsu Kim, a philosopher Galileo Galilei scientists for decades graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, has (1564 – 1642) muttered the unveiled a project he calls Living Food where phrase “And yet it moves” meals wiggle on your plate and in your mouth. (Italian: Eppur si muove) when His concept builds on developments in he left the court of inquisition synthetic biology that enable the creation of in 1633. He had been forced to What are we? artificial life in organic form. Each of his recant the Copernican We hurt without moving, © minsukim, www.minsukim.net artificial foods displays a different behavior: worldview, which in We poison without touching, wriggling around, waving tentacles or moving up and future from developments in the emerging technologies. contradiction to the geocentric We bar the truth and the lies,

down as if breathing in and out. The main objective of Living food has its origins in haute cuisine and doctrine espoused by the We are not to be judged by our size. his project was to explore how food could evolve in the molecular gastronomy. Church claimed that the Earth words answer: moves around the Sun. Today the phrase is used to connote that the facts are the facts, regardless of what one believes. EAT ME IF YOU CAN! Meals moving around on the plate create a new dining experience Æ ‘I like to move it’ This 1994 release by the American duo Reel 2 Real moved quickly up the charts once it was featured on the original I like to move it, move it soundtrack of the 2005 movie Madagascar. Its global success eventually secured the producer and record label THE VIDEO She likes to move it, move it https://vimeo.com/ He likes to move it, move it a spot in New York City’s dance music Hall of Fame. 68978347 Immortalized by the animals of the Madagascar film You like to ("move it") series “busting a move” to its irresistible rhythm, it has frequently been used across many media since.

40 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 41 PEOPLE & PLACES PEOPLE & PLACES BIKE IT OR LEAVE IT Life in Copenhagen is lived on the seat of a bicycle

“No matter the weather, no one of the first cities in the world to cyclists, while also creating green Happy Cycling matter their destination – launch free city bikes for its citizens spots in the cityscape. Copenhageners go by bike,” was and visitors in 1995, and in 2007, one of Janina Schmidt’s first became the first city to be awarded 50 percent of all Copenhageners observations upon arriving in the UCI* Bike City label. A commute to school, university or in Copenhagen! Copenhagen, Denmark, in mid- confirmation of its image as the work by bike every day. Our January 2016. Indeed the country world’s most bicycle-friendly city. colleagues at the terminal in has a long cycling tradition, and Copenhagen fit the statistic: four of Cycling has a long and strong tradition in Denmark. In fact, the Copenhageners have used this Bicycles – Joy and the eight office staff bike to work Danish capital was the world’s first city to be recognized as a means of transportation to freedom of movement daily. After taking the kids to commute to work since the 1880s. kindergarten (by bike of course), ‘Bike City’ back in 2007. Janina Schmidt, a German student of Then as now, bicycles were the “Good, better, best – The City of one of the colleagues has a trip of Marquard & Bahls completing an international posting at the fastest, easiest and most Copenhagen’s Bicycle Strategy 14 kilometer each way! Most of the terminal in Copenhagen, discusses the local cycling culture. environmentally friendly way to 2011-2025,” adopted in 2011, aims operators travel long distances to move around the city. to make the city the world’s best work, e.g. from Sweden and other city to cycle in. Today, Copenhagen parts of Denmark. However, once The country has gone to great has close to 400 kilometer of at the terminal, everyone can move lengths to encourage people to use designated bike lanes, and traffic around it on bikes provided by the bicycles. Copenhagen, Århus and lights are coordinated in favor of company, so no one misses out on Odense – the three largest Danish cyclists during rush hour. Cycle the cycling culture. And in their cities – ran large-scale branding superhighways are already a spare time, you’re likely to see campaigns including advertising reality, leading cyclists in and out them happily cycling someplace or billboards to promote cycling even of the city from as far as 15 another! more. Likewise, the city’s planners kilometers away. Currently, take the cycling culture seriously, Copenhagen is building even more with extended networks of cycle green routes through the city to EASY TO GET AROUND lanes along roads. Copenhagen was ensure safe, green routes for Colleagues uphold the Danish cycling culture also while working at the terminal

* The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is the global governing body for the sport of cycling, recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

42 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 43 © Thomas Høyrup Christensen, www.visitcopenhagen.com © Thomas Høyrup 734094545239523082 SPORTS LEISURE & ENTERTAINMENT 403479234802340823 840238042480524805 Adventure to the Max 248602486024680246 “It’s not a race, it’s an adventure!” How did NUMBER Belgium’s very first “Amphiman” in May 2016 802468024473462345 turn out for two of our “sporting” colleagues, Rob De Donder and Dirk Hermans? 784025072358249502 10 Mile Run, which they their successful finish but also their completed successfully as post-race paella and, of course, a part of the Oiltanking well-deserved Belgian beer. But they 7 Stolthaven Antwerp team. won’t be resting for long: their racing schedule continues in October 2016, 935802357023758245 Since time immemorial, 7the number seven has had spiritual and mystical On Saturday, May 7, 2016, when they are scheduled to participate connotations. In many societies, this number is accorded great significance. it was time for our two in the year’s second swimrun race in According to general numerology, its stands for virtues including perfection, athletes to begin their 28- Boom, northern Belgium. perseverance, optimism, as well as victory – and seven is considered a lucky kilometer swimrun adventure: 823507235087230750number in countries including Japan and Thailand. From August 2016, the 24 kilometer of running and * A swimrun is a long-distance number seven will carry a special meaning for Marquard & Bahls as well. cross-country race between teams of 3.6 kilometer of swimming. two athletes who repeatedly switch “Koreastrasse 7” is the address of the new headquarter in Hamburg. The The race turned out to be as between running and swimming, all building is located in Hamburg’s the time wearing wetsuits and shoes In the April issue we were excited tough as the landscape was idyllic: HafenCity, directly on the waterfront. 582375235976956892With floor space of about 23,000 sqm to announce the participation of two the water a mere 10 °C, the air colleagues in Belgium’s first temperature 28 °C, the off- spread over seven floors, it provides Amphiman, a swimrun* competition. road course erratic and ample room for more than 700 And, indeed they competed and challenging. Despite their colleagues. The move to this new finished it with gusto! Dirk Hermans, exertions, Dirk and Rob 734094545239523082location makes it possible for all Software Development & Support enjoyed the beautiful Hamburg-based Marquard & Bahls Manager at Marquard & Bahls, and natural race course through subsidiaries to work under a shared roof, Rob De Donder, Human Resources the forests and lakes in the something that wasn’t feasible due to Coordinator Recruitment & south of Belgium. Thanks to 403479234802340823the space limitations of the previous Development for Oiltanking Stolthaven a steady focus and their office building at Admiralitaetstrasse 55. Antwerp and Oiltanking Ghent and well-attuned teamwork, This will lend additional spacial clout to Terneuzen, had prepared themselves they managed every swim- the companies' principle of “stronger for the race both individually and as a run transition smoothly and together.” The new building, distinctive team. They checked their physical didn’t get lost. Five hours 840238042480524805yet with the restraint typical for the fitness by participating in the Antwerp later, they enjoyed not only HafenCity, was designed with the company’s philosophy in mind: “independent, sound, individual.” We 248602486024680246hope that seven will prove a lucky A FANTASTIC COMBINATION “Swimrun number for all of our colleagues in is an ongoing alternation between Hamburg, and that another of its beautiful landscapes, peak physical connotations – safety/security – will performance and the companionship with one’s wingman” Dirk Hermans 802468024473462345apply for the building and everyone in it. (left) and Rob De Donder 44 CONNECTIONS 784025072358249502CONNECTIONS 45 PEOPLE & PLACES READER' S CORNER

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Last time we featured several paintings and asked for their names and their artists – and many of you “got the picture”! It seems Germany The Federal Agency for Migration Hamburg for participating refugees. Further to this many of our readers are quite the art connoisseurs, including and Refugees (BAMF) estimates that 1.2 million initiative, Team Sustainability is looking for mentors Néstor C. Gabrielloni/Oiltanking EBYTEM, Frank Andresen/ refugees have arrived in Germany in the past three and language coaches in Hamburg who are willing to Mabanaft Deutschland, Tim Van Baeveghem/Oilltanking Ghent, years (as of March 2016). Continuing its effort to support refugees with their time and skills. Joblinge and Henning Huenteler/Carbonbay, the lucky winners of the improve the situation of the refugees, Marquard & was founded by the Boston Consulting Group and the powercards (2.200 MAH). Bahls is participating in a refugee initiative intended Eberhard von Kuenheim Foundation of BMW. to build self-reliance. Correct answers: 1) The Scream, Edvard Munch 2) Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Please contact Team Sustainability for more Vinci 3) The Night Watch, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 4) Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes The “Joblinge Kompass” program was developed by information. Vermeer 5) Sunflowers, Vincent Van Gogh 6) The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí 7) Water the Joblinge initiative. Since 2007, Joblinge Lilies, Claude Monet 8) Nighthawks, Edward Hopper successfully integrates disadvantaged youths into the labour market. NEW QUIZ With new Kompass Program, the nation- wide initiative aims to Get on the bus to win bring young refugees into the This time, we have an illustrated and adults make judgments. Don’t miss the bus – please job market. On June 30, brain teaser with a question: While adults look for visual and send us your answer by August 2016, Oiltanking organized a Which direction is the bus going? sensory clues, children use their 26, 2016 and have the chance guided tour through its So there’s no clear front or back first visual clue. to win a white Oiltanking scarf. Blumensand terminal in to be seen?

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Up & Down

Escadaria Selarón, or the “Selaron Steps” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are more than steps which helps you move from one neighborhood to another. The story of its origins is also quite moving. This world-famous set of steps is the work of Jorge Selarón, a Chilean-born Brazilian painter and ceramist. He began decorating the hillside staircase running up from the Lapa quarter to the city village of Santa Teresa in 1990. The 250 steps, covering a distance of 125 meters, are ornately decorated with over 2,000 individually designed tiles from 60 countries around the world. About 300 of the tiles are hand-painted by Selarón. Initially the tiles were scavenged from construction sites and piles of urban waste. Later, most of them were donations from visitors.

Selarón called the Escadaria Selarón a “tribute to the Brazilian people” and apparently considered it a work in progress, never completed. On January 10, 2013, at the age of 65, he was found dead on the very steps that had become his life’s work. But he left the world a lasting heritage: His flight of stairs, which has been featured in many magazines and music videos, was declared part of the city’s patrimony in 2005 and has become one