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THE MAGAZINE OF THE WORLD’S SHIPMANAGEMENT COMMUNITY ISSUE 33 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 COVER STORY FIRST PERSON 14 Roberto Galli The current Executive Vice Training & Crew Retention President of Syndarma (the association for Brazilian flag ship owners in Brazil) usually p34 High seas has his finger on the pulse of what is happening, especially in turning high- Rio de Janeiro, his home town tech SHIPMANAGEMENT FEATURES 18 How I Work SMI talks to industry achievers and asks the question: How do you keep up with the rigours of the shipping industry? 29 Insider 8 STRAIGHT TALK - Forewarned then forearmed Denis Petropoulos, Executive Director of Braemar Shipping NOTEBOOK Services plc 10 Industry bodies call for armed 12 Pancoast hangs out for FMM 74 The Bucket List guards soft loan Prominent shipping Ship owners and managers have voiced Brazilian-based offshore operator professionals share their their concern over a lack of any real Pancoast Trading has finally seen some personal and business progress in resolving the piracy issue movement at the Brazilian Fundo de ambitions with SMI Mercante Marinha which will lead to a 10 Managers request voice in soft loan for the company allowing it to piracy proceedings proceed with a newbuilding programme MARKET SECTOR Crew managers have hit out against a 12 Shipping confidence dips to 24 Technically sound lack of input when it comes to piracy all-time low negotiations Leading technical management Overall confidence levels in the shipping providers explain how the 11 Owners reluctant to end industry fell to their lowest level for three crewing shortage and advances shipmanagement contracts and a half years in the three months ending in technology are impacting on August 2011, according to accountant and their services The threat of expensive termination fees, shipping adviser Moore Stephens against a backdrop of continued low freight revenues, means high costs when 34 High seas turning changing shipmanagement provider 13 AKD warns Dutch ship owners high-tech against hiring armed guards A “digital revolution” is almost 11 Creating capital by cutting Ship owners who hire armed guards could upon the shipping industry as carbon face criminal prosecution, leading Dutch the sea plays catch up to land- based technology and seafarers Shipping industry professionals debated law firm AKD has warned following the release of a report recommending greater demand broadband and high- the challenges facing clean-tech and tech communications devices renewable energy at the Creating Climate protection against piracy for the Dutch merchant fleet Wealth summit in London 66 Lightening the load As the economic downturn continues to influence NEWBUILDING decisions over building projects worldwide, wise players within the heavy lift 73 Bold owners, determined yards make the running sector are adapting to take Coupling an evidently keen price with a track record in passenger ship construction, MHI advantage of growing recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Carnival Corporation covering two opportunities in wind, mining 125,000gt cruise vessels destined for the US group’s German brand, AIDA Cruises and offshore SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 ISSUE 33 SHIP MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL 5 DISPATCHES BUSINESS OF SHIPPING 30 Grappling with a ‘bittersweet’ solution 80 AdHoc The shipping industry has become the first to introduce Greenwich Maritime Institute plans Masters degree in security mandatory global greenhouse gas emission standards. The Prolonged high yen is affecting Japanese ship managers principle of extending enforceable environment protection rules Goltens offers a safe solution to the high seas meets one of the crucial calls made by the world’s top marine scientists Save our Seafarers campaign hits 20,000 mark India cracks down on old ships IBF reaches three-year pay settlement REGIONAL FOCUS Australian shipping incidents down between 2005 and 2010 40 Harbouring success through prosperous ports SHIP REPAIR The ability of Belgium and The Netherlands to survive what is the worst shipping crisis to hit for decades will rely as much on prosperity in the world’s main producing areas like the Far East as 70 Conversion contract for Lloyd Werft well as its determination to remain committed to what it does best Germany’s Lloyd Werft (Bremerhaven), one of northern Europe’s main exponents of the refurbishment and conversion industry, is to 48 Strategic focus on higher added-value sectors convert Harren & Partners’ heavy lift vessel Combi Dock IV into a specialised OSV As a country with extremely limited natural resources, South Korea has made its way in the world through unerring industrial endeavour and exporting achievement - Oman Drydock opens for business - MMHE continues its growth in the LNG tanker TRADE ANALYSIS repair market 45 The truth behind China’s VLCC ordering plans REVIEW The tanker markets were reported to have been spooked in early September by the rumour that Chinese oil companies may order 88 Books up to 80 VLCC newbuildings from Chinese yards Giants of the Sea by Joachim Pein Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore 46 Stemming the flow Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen The Zero Point Conspiracy by Donald Crighton It was almost a case of déjà vu when Frontline’s Chief Executive Jens Martin Jensen was quoted in the maritime press in the middle of August claiming that owners in the very large crude carrier Music market should take a $500 million gamble and scrap 50 older Superheavy: Superheavy double-hull vessels in order to help ease oversupply in this sector Cleo Laine: Jazz Red Hot Chili Peppers: I’m With You ECOVISION Festival JZ Shanghai Music Festival 58 Prevention is better than cure Theatre The American Salvage Association tells SMI about the importance Backbeat Duke of York’s Theatre, London of salvage as a preventative measure in environmental protection Art 62 Vessel operations: With all the trimmings Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso Finding a vessel’s optimal trim – the difference between the ship’s forward and after drafts, and particularly its effect on its Dining manoeuvrability – can provide better speed and lessen fuel Alinea: Lincoln Park, Chicago consumption Wines 64 Greenshoots German wines get serious LIFESTYLE BUSINESS VIEWPOINT 92 What smart homes are wearing - in the bowels of 55 Counteracting the elements the earth Six Britons in a small boat-cum-sledge this summer braved ice It’s official: home interiors is the new porn. Like voyeurs seeking floes and polar bears to voyage 450 miles to the magnetic North after lustful thrills and titillations, we allow an increasing number Pole, from Resolution Bay in the Northwest Territories of Canada of TV programmes to let us into great and grand designs for living 94 Shaken, not slurred? LIVE Aston Martin’s vehicles are as conspicuous as they are classic but how will life-long fans of the brand react to it’s microcar creation, 85 Objects of Desire Things that make you go oooh! the Aston Martin Cygnet? 6 SHIP MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ISSUE 33 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 STRAIGHT TALK Welcome to Ship Management International September/October 2011 Issue No. 33 www.shipmanagementinternational.com The shipping business magazine today’s owners and managers have been waiting for Published by Forewarned then Elaborate Communications Acorn Farm Business Centre, Cublington Road, Wing, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 0LB forearmed United Kingdom Sales/Accounts +44 (0) 1296 682241/682051 f there is one thing the shipping industry is But such efforts must go hand-in-hand with Editorial +44 (0) 1296 682356 Fax: +44 (0) 1296 682156 good at, it is being seen to be singing from the co-operation of the navies and must be Email: [email protected]/[email protected] the same hymn sheet when it has finally sanctioned at the highest level. You cannot co- www.elabor8.co.uk I had enough of banging its head against the operate enough to save seafarers’ lives. Ship Management International Editorial Board proverbial wall of international obduracy. With a headcount of at least 166 private Rajaish Bajpaee (Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement) Before it was the unfair criminalisation of security companies seeking the attention and the Kuba Szymanski (InterManager) Nigel Cleave (Videotel Marine International) the Hebei Two; this time it is a united call for wallets of the world’s ship owners and Andreas Droussiotis (Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement) the use of armed guards onboard those ships managers, it is hardly surprising that the use of Dirk Fry (Columbia Shipmanagement) Sean Moloney (Elaborate Communications) transiting the pirate infested waters of the Gulf armed guards is dominating the headlines. Yes of Aden. Okay, the plea by the world’s ship no ship with an armed guard has so far been Editorial Director: Sean Moloney Deputy Editor: Helen Jauregui owners delivered under the auspices of the attacked, but according to Capt Keith Blount Journalist: Samantha Giltrow International Chamber of Shipping and its from EUNAVFOR, it is only a matter of time Editorial Support: Debra Munford Regular Contributors: Margie Collins fellow Round Tablers, was for the global before this statistic is overturned. Michael Grey James Brewer community to sanction the use of a United As he told a recent International Chamber Thomas Ország-Land Martin Conway Nations force of armed military guards to be of Shipping conference is London, “I believe it Robert Ward deployed onboard ship to tackle the piracy crisis is only a matter of time before a ship with a Paul Bartlett Technical Editor: David Tinsley in the Indian Ocean, which it says is spiralling private security team onboard is taken Advertisement Director: Jean Winfield Advertising Sales: Karen Martin out of control. While in a separate move, successfully by pirates.” The military, he says, is Accounts: Sarah Newman Design and layout: Michael Argles InterManager launched its own campaign to entirely agnostic to private security teams and Editorial contributors: allow owners and third party managers the allows shipping companies to make their own The best and most informed writers serving the global freedom of choice when it comes to employing decisions.