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New members joining its ranks during the first quarter of this year InterManager, the international trade association for the ship management industry, has boosted its membership with several new members joining its ranks during the first quarter of this year.Full members joining include ship management company Nigeria LNG and crew manager Nedcon. They are joined by Associate members KVH, Cubisol, Jadran Pismo and Stark Moore Macmillan.Speaking as the InterManager Executive Committee Meeting in Athens today (June 7) InterManager President Alastair Evitt said: "I am pleased to report that InterManager is increasingly receiving applications for membership from a range of shipmanagement and related maritime businesses. I believe the shipping community is becoming more and more aware of the benefits of speaking with one voice on key issues and recognises the role bodies like InterManager can play in representing their interests and speaking out for the industry."Mr Evitt pointed out that incidents like the arrest and criminalisation of Hebei Spirit captain and first officer had highlighted how effectively InterManager can work on behalf of the ship and crew management community and how successfully it could operate with other industry organisations.InterManager New Members : Jadran Pismo is a Philippines-based maritime news portal which ...

Initiated by InterManager The Shipping Key Performance Indicator Project, initiated by InterManager but now administered by the independent KPI Association Ltd, has passed an important milestone: Performance statistics from more than 1,000 vessels are now being inputted into the project's website - enabling the KPI system to produce informative and meaningful performance measurements for the industry."This is excellent progress for the project and indicates a great deal of industry involvement and support," said Captain Kuba Szymanski, on behalf of the KPI Association. "By collating performance data from a wide range of shipping companies, we are able to calculate key performance indicators to enable benchmarking against industry averages. The more information we have, the more accurate these indicators are, which will help to ensure the standards within our industry are kept high."Started by InterManager, together with The Norwegian Research Council , Marintek and Wilhelmsen ASA, the Shipping KPI Project developed standard tools for measuring companies' and vessels' performance. Now established as the independent, not-for-profit KPI Association Ltd., the project is working with a wide range of industry stakeholders and aims to develop a standard for ships' performance measurement common to the industry.The data which each company inputs is completely confidential and ...

Says InterManager President at CMA Any move at government level to ban the payment of ransoms to pirates would have a massively detrimental effect on the risk to the world's seafarers and the global economy, according to Alastair Evitt, Managing Director of Meridian Marine Management, President of InterManager and the newly appointed Chairman of the Save Our Seafarers Campaign.Addressing the opening session of this year's Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) conference in Stamford, USA, Mr Evitt said not only would such a ban have an impact on the willingness of any crew to transit high risk areas, but any owner who then did not pay a ransom for his crew and vessel would be unlikely to ever attract a crew again.Responding to comments that came out of the recent London conference on Somalia where governments called for a move to not pay ransoms to pirates, he said many vessels would be forced to reroute with the subsequent effect on costs. "And for those forced to transit pirate areas, insurance premiums would become prohibitive - to say nothing of the fact that in many cases vessels would become a total loss after six months," he said."I for one would not sanction one ...

Mr Alastair Evitt has been appointed chairman of the SOS campaign Alastair Evitt, President of InterManager and Managing Director of Meridian Marine Management Ltd, has been appointed chairman of the Save Our Seafarers campaign.Mr Evitt, who was previously SOS vice chairman, succeeds Giles Heimann who is stepping down to concentrate on his role as Secretary General of the International Maritime Employers' Committee LtdSave Our Seafarers (SOS) was launched in March 2011. It is calling for unified action to raise awareness of the human and economic cost of Somali piracy, and for greater political will to be shown by governments in their actions on this critical issue. The internationally important campaign has gained support across more than 190 countries worldwide.Through its internationally-recognised website, SOS provides up to date information and resources which highlight the effect of international pirate activity on the shipping industry, particularly the world's seafarers who risk robbery, captivity and even death.SOS has produced a short video highlighting the human and economic cost of Somali piracy. The six-minute video highlights the significant threat of Somali piracy attacks for the worldwide seafarer community and potentially for world trade itself.The video can be viewed by the following direct link: http://youtube/xgq71beY9JcAlastair Evitt, ...

Broadband Maritime Offshore & Oceanic 2012 GVF Maritime Satcom Forum and InterManager Co-ordinate Joint Programme for 6TH International Conference 'Broadband Maritime Offshore & Oceanic 2012' 9th January.Through an initiative designed to optimise the use of broadband solutions for seafarers, the GVF Maritime Satcom Forum is collaborating with InterManager, the international ship-management association, to stage a joint conference programme involving leading representatives of the two sectors.Entitled, 'Broadband Maritime Offshore & Oceanic 2012: Information & Communications Networking Mobility South East Asia', the joint programme will take place on 14th-15th February 2012 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore, where the GVF-EMP partnership's 6th conference on maritime communications will feature a dialogue that offers extended 'Maritime Insights,' discussion of satellite broadband-supported information and communications technologies (ICTs), applications that fulfil mission-critical needs in the maritime sector, and shipping industry discussion of its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Standards.The conference is being held in association with Inmarsat (Principal Sponsor) and Hughes (Guest Sponsor). It will afford an opportunity to both maritime communications solution providers and shipping industry end-users, to further their dialogue on how the satellite industry can best match solutions to the growing requirements of the maritime sector for broadband-based applications.InterManager's Secretary General, Capt. Kuba ...

Wilhelmsen Ship Management has been named Shipping Company of the Year InterManager Member company Wilhelmsen Ship Management has been named Shipping Company of the Year in the ICSW International Seafarers' Welfare Awards.Tushar Mohile, Head of Marine Personnel for Norwegian-based Wilhelmsen Ship Management received the award from InterManager Secretary General Kuba Szymanski at a ceremony in Geneva on December 12th, the opening night of the International Labour Organisation's Maritime Labour Convention tripartite meeting.Mr Mohile said: "We in Wilhemsen Ship Management accept the ICSW Seafarers Welfare Award with pride and humility, and on behalf of our more than 9,700 seafarers who represent us on more than 400 vessels. For us the award is an acknowledgement of our work with governance, training and processes towards our seafaring community. As a third party manager our most valuable asset is the people that we have in our manning pool."David Cockcroft, Secretary of the ITF Seafarers' Trust which also sponsored the awards, said: "Holding this ceremony in the ILO, with implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention very close, is a reminder of the importance of the work all of us are engaged in to provide a safer, healthier and better environment for seafarers."Roger Harris, ICSW Executive ...

Says InterManager Secretary General Capt Kuba Szymanski Modern corporate social responsibility should include measures to care for crew as well as the environment, says InterManager Secretary General Captain Kuba Szymanski.Discussing corporate social responsibility (CSR) at this year's InterManager Annual General Meeting, Capt. Szymanski said: "People talk of 'hugging trees', I say let's hug seafarers first!"Urging ship managers to embrace crew concerns when implementing a CSR programme, Capt. Szymanski asked: "Why do we care more about birds and whales than we do about seafarers?"Demonstrating the effects of increasing amounts of legislation, former ship's Master Capt. Szymanski stripped off an item of clothing for each official law that audience members' could call out - stopping after tearing off his jacket and tie to the relief of amused delegates attending InterManager's AGM in Manila, Philippines this week."Educate do not regulate," Capt. Szymanski urged international organisations like the IMO and EU, vowing to ensure InterManager members will work to self-regulate to ensure mandatory regulation is minimised. He later explained: "I am all in favour of protecting wildlife and the environment of course but I want to make sure that it is achievable and manageable. I am a great believer in empowering ships' crew and ...

Says InterManager President The "horrors" of piracy have dominated the first year of Meridian Marine Management Managing Director Alastair Evitt's first year in his role as President of InterManager, the international trade association for the shipmanagement industry.Summing up his first year representing the world's third-party and in-house ship managers, Mr Evitt told the InterManager Annual General Meeting today (November 15th) that the fight against global piracy is a priority for his presidency and praised the way the shipping industry has united to fight it."With 273 seafarers held hostage at this time, I feel it is appropriate to acknowledge the horrors of international piracy," Mr Evitt said. "This issue has brought the shipping industry together." He praised industry initiatives, particularly the Save Our Seafarers campaign and the work of the Maritime Piracy Human Response Programme, and highlighted InterManager's campaign urging Flag States to allow ship owners and managers the "freedom to choose" whether they wish to deploy armed guards onboard during transits through piracy zones like the Indian Ocean.Mr Evitt, who has completed the first year of his two-year term of office, said: "Our sea staff are the backbone of our industry and their safety and well being are a primary ...

Reaction and comments by ITF, SOS, Nautilus and Intermanager News that the UK Government has endorsed the use of armed guards on UK-flagged vessels has triggered comment from the major shipping organisations, most of which were favourable but with caveats.ITF's general secretary David Cockroft said: "Somali-based piracy has been allowed to become so successful, savage and wide-ranging that seafarers' and seafaring organisations' worries about armed guards have had to be set aside. However, guards can never be anything but a supplement to the sorely-tried existing naval presence, which is now trying to cover an entire ocean."The ITF, like the International Shipping Federation and International Chamber of Shipping, would like to see on-vessel detachments made up of the ship's flag state forces whenever possible."He continued: "Sadly no move is without risks. Pirate gangs are making fortunes out of their crimes. It is easy for them to reach for heavier and heavier weapons and turn to obscene levels of violence to counter defensive measures."'We welcome David Cameron's interest in maritime affairs, but we also have to warn him that the current defence cuts are likely to compromise the Royal Navy's ability to fight piracy."ITF seafarers' section chair Dave Heindel added: "What's an ...

Supporting the SaveOurSeafarers Campaign Capt Kuba Szymanski, Secretary General of InterManager, is giving a presentation regarding the SaveOurSeafarers Campaign, during the 2nd Annual Safety4Sea Forum, Session 1The 2nd Safety4Sea Forum, a PRO BONO event, successfully completed on 5th of October 2011 in Athens, covering a wide range in QHSE issues.The event has been attended by over 340 delegates at the venue representing more than 170 companies, plus more than 100 persons watching live streaming. The event organized by IBS Marine Consulting Group and sponsored by Aspida Maritime Security, Dorian Hellas, Transmar Shipping and Lloyd's Register and supported by BIMCO, Intermanager, SaveOurSeafarers campaign, Steamship Mutual, Green Award, Cardiff University, ELNAVI, NAFTIKA XRONIKA, Tanker Operator, Shipmanagement International and Marintech NewsFor more information about the Forum visithttp://www.safety4sea.com/forum/2For more information about Safety4Sea visit the official site http://www.safety4sea.com