Stirring Maritime Comms: Russia’s Under the debating spotlight insurance might Indian Shipbuilding Bypassing the global downturn How I Work: Hamburg Sud’s Julian Thomas Regional Focus - Scandinavia: Northern star shines the light of a sparkling cluster Stirring Maritime Comms: Russia’s Under the debating spotlight insurance might Indian Shipbuilding Bypassing the global downturn How I Work: Hamburg Sud’s Julian Thomas Regional Focus - Scandinavia: Northern star shines the THE MAGAZINE OF THE WORLD’S SHIPMANAGEMENT COMMUNITY ISSUE 23 JAN/FEB 2010 light of a sparkling cluster COVER STORY FIRST PERSON 12 Giuseppe Bottiglieri and Michele Bottiglieri DISPATCHES Roughly translated Torre del Greco means ‘Tower of the p52 Russian Insurance Greek’ but this Naples suburb is as best known for its prevalence of traditional family ship owners as Stirring Russia’s for its coral art and fine jewellery insurance might SHIPMANAGEMENT FEATURES 16 How I Work SMI talks to industry achievers and asks the question: How do you keep up with the rigours of the shipping industry? 27 Opinion Martin Stafford, CEO Marine Services Division, V.Ships “It is interesting if you look across the range of services we have as some were naturally formed businesses in their own right while others came out of departments operating within the shipman- agement side of the business" 81 Insider 6 STRAIGHT TALK - Learn your lessons well Andrea Costantini - Chief Financial Officer, Ishima NOTEBOOK 8 Szymanski looks to an era of 9 Ireland ‘out to attract’ more MARKET SECTOR greater consolidation and respect businesses to its shores’ Greater communication, best practice and 31 Crew Travel boosting the respect third party managers 10 IMMA launched to oversee Booking seats for a ship’s crew with 72 hours notice and receive from their principals are three of the seafarer health a brief to get the best price possible with the fewest key motivators for the new incoming A new trade association armed with a broad number of transits can be a task only suitable to those Secretary General of InterManager, the mandate to represent and promote the health and with the thickest skin and the toughest disposition trade association for the world’s third party medical interests of the world’s seafarers, port and in-house ship managers workers and cruise passengers as well as improve shipboard hygiene has been formed in London 66 Communications Round Table Owners and charterers should The shipping industry continues to struggle to shirk off the effects of the global recession. But what will be the liaise on vessel routeing Industry ‘not prepared’ for MLC knock-on effects for a maritime communication industry that is driving forward with new broadband solutions? Is 2010 a year to avoid or a year of hope? SHIP REPAIR NEWBUILDING 50 Ship Repair Despite the continuing financial downturn facing the global shipping industry, shiprepair yards, especially those in Singapore, appear bent on expansion. The most progressive expansion plan 61 Year-end work influx to order involves Jurong Shipyard Ltd (JSL), part of SembCorp Marine hungry yards JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 ISSUE 23 SHIP MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL 3 REGIONAL FOCUS ECOVISION 20 Scandinavia 87 EcoVision covers the wide-ranging and pressing environmental Scandinavia recently formed the backdrop of one of the single most aspects of shipping that impact on owners and managers with inform- globally critical issues of the contemporary age, as world leaders ative, dynamic and colourful depth, featuring the emerging designs, gathered together in Copenhagen for tense and earnest discussion technologies, innovations, legislations, schemes and issues shaping the about the collective fight against climate change future of the global shipping business with input from some of the world's most green-minded industry leaders 40 Gibraltar Considering it is barely visible on a map of the world, the country 88 Designing a revolution of Gibraltar holds a fairly prized position in the global maritime Climate change talks may be forcing the shipping industry into a industry, being one of the most important fuel valves on the pressurised can of responsibility as an imperative market policy for shipping arteries of the seas emissions reduction sits at the top of the agenda, but for shipping companies taking matters into their own hands, the future is looking 78 Ireland distinctively eco-shaped If the mood at the fourth annual Irish Maritime Development Office 90 Green Shoots (IMDO) Irish Ship Finance briefing, recently held in Dublin, was anything to go by, then 2010 could be as much a year of opportunity as a year of survival for the country’s shipping industry BUSINESS OF SHIPPING DISPATCHES 62 Ad Hoc Containers as emergency housing Climbing high for Seafarers UK 56 Indian and Sri Lankan shipbuilding Sculpting a piece of history The shipbuilding industry in India is in a far healthier state than it was Beefing up customs barely six years ago. Notwithstanding the global economic downturn World’s first MLC 2006 certification and shipping recession that have adversely affected the order-books and Paper for diamond bottomlines of shipyards in South Korea, Japan and China over the last Hospital ship to the rescue in Haiti two years, most top shipbuilders in India appear to be sitting pretty with order-books crammed until fiscal 2012-13 IN A TAXI WITH... 82 DP World The greater the binge, it is said, the bigger the hangover. A dirham for 85 Jan Morten Eskilt, CEO OSM Group your thoughts, and with apologies to Horace: if the mountains laboured greatly, did they produce merely a ridiculous mouse? REVIEW TRADE ANALYSIS 96 Entertainment: DVDs: 37 Ice Class Shipping District 9, 2012, By the people- The election of Barack Obama Dining: Sketch, London Rejuvenation of the Russian icebreaker fleet is closely allied with the country's geopolitical agenda and new industrial verve founded on a Verre, Hilton Dubai Creek Hotel, Dubai belief in the core, long-term economic and strategic importance of its Events: Rio De Janeiro Carnival Arctic hydrocarbon and mineral reserves Books: The Ships Atlas - 13th Edition Madoff mens Rea and other people’s money 74 Ro-Ro Implemented during what may now be viewed as the halcyon days that preceded the global financial crisis and economic downturn, a LIVE succession of ro-ro and ro-pax newbuild projects coming to reali- sation and under way are distinguished by high capacities, in some 93 Objects of desire Things that make you go oooh! cases setting new benchmarks in payload intake LIFESTYLE BUSINESS VIEWPOINT 100 I want it... 28 Year of the Seafarer and I want it now! As we wave goodbye to a momentous decade for international Faced with a vanity fair of amenities, shipping, we open the door to a new one, and new it certainly will be. valued guests of Hotel Rey Juan Carlos Record highs and lows in shipping history have earmarked the 1 in Barcelona are offered a menu of ‘noughties’ as an era of change, and with 2010 officially designated by nine types of pillow, with varying the IMO as ‘Year of the Seafarer’, there are monumental challenges degrees of firmness and various fillings ahead for the shipping industry. 4 SHIP MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ISSUE 23 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 STRAIGHT TALK Welcome to Ship Management International JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 Issue No. 23 www.shipmanagementinternational.com Learn your The Shipping Business Magazine today’s owners and managers have been waiting for Published by lessons well Elaborate Communications Acorn Farm Business Centre, Cublington Road, According to Thomas Peters, the leading told reporters, “both for ship owners and Wing, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 0LB American writer on business management managers, there are major consequences for the United Kingdom practices, the magic formula that successful MLC being implemented, and there are require- Sales/Accounts +44 (0) 1296 682241/682051 businesses have discovered is to treat their ments that they’ll need to have in place. 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Administrations need to act right now Sean Moloney (Elaborate Communications) they cry, and must be valued at every juncture. to ensure their inspectors are trained effectively But nearly three decades after the shipping to carry out these inspections.” Editorial Director: Sean Moloney Assistant Editor: Amy Kilpin industry started to look towards the importance Revision of the STCW Convention is also Editorial Support: Debra Munford of shipboard self management, how valued is nearing completion and a diplomatic conference Australia: Wendy Laursen the Master and Chief Engineer let alone their planned for June of this year will set the Ireland: Hugh Oram fellow officers or the massing hoards of Far approval process in train. 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