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2014 SAFETY4SEA Forum- Chris Adams

Seminar on Freight Derivatives and Risk Management in Shipping

To address widespread concerns about fracking risk, particularly related to contamination of groundwater, DNV GL invites industry and other stakeholders to a joint industry project (JIP). The aim is to collect data, develop and validate quantitative risk assessment methodologies and outline risk management strategies that can be widely accepted by all relevant parties. The shale industry encompasses a great number of companies, so aggregated, quantifiable fracking related data is hard to come by.  This makes it more difficult for various stakeholders to assess fracking risk at various well depths, geological formations, and mixes of fracking solution components.  Risks are mitigated by utilizing various well design barriers that are intended to protect groundwater resources. DNV GL is proposing to bring together key stakeholders from all over the world: operators, service companies, academics, financiers, regulators and other interested parties. The objective is to collect and analyze shale gas fracking related data, apply statistical methodologies and then define quantitative measures of fracking risk to both horizontal and vertical portions of a well. ”By drawing on a wide range of stakeholders we get the best possible foundation to apply widely accepted methods of risk assessment and risk management,” says Rich Green, DNV GL’s Director ...

OPA 90: Obligations when operating in the US

The UK P&I Club has compiled a FAQ bulletin which focuses on the implications for P&I insurance of choosing to use the Northern Sea Route. FAQs focus on the implications for P&I insurance of choosing to use the Northern Sea Route.

Recommendations for ships re the current outbreak of the Ebola Virus

The EU Commission's Directorate-General on Environment has ruled that, following complaints received from Spain, it is unable to identify any breach of EU environmental legislation in respect of bunkering activities, the Eastside or Sovereign Bay project and, in particular, the Artificial Reef System in North-West BGTW (British Gibraltar Territorial Waters). Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar has received notification of this ruling, via Sir Ivan Rogers, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the United Kingdom's representative office in Brussels, from the European Commission of its determination of complaints made by the Kingdom of Spain during the summer of last year against Gibraltar on matters related to the environment. The Government of Gibraltar also recognise the work that the relevant Gibraltar agencies, competent authorities and ministries do in order to ensure that when our actions are put under the microscope we are found to have acted properly at both a substantive and technical level. Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar announced that she has been pleased to work in a closely co-ordinated and effective manner with the UK Government's officers in London and in Brussels in delivering this excellent result. Source: Government of Gibraltar  In the start, I was explicit with you propecia ...

An online risk assessment tool for alien species transfers via the ballast water of commercial ships has been released jointly by OSPAR and HELCOM. The online tool was adopted by the coastal countries of the North-East Atlantic and Baltic Sea regions as part of the joint harmonised procedure on granting exemptions from ballast water treatment provisions of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The tool comprises a database on observations of alien species and physical features in ports, a list of target alien species, a list of all marine and alien species observed in port surveys in the region and an agreed risk assessment model. This will allow administrations and ship owners to quickly identify routes that may qualify for exemptions to the application of ballast water management for ships (regulation B-3) and those that are unlikely to. Not only will the tool help protect the environment by identifying routes that could present a high risk for the transfer of alien species, it will ultimately save both the shipping industry and maritime authorities time and money by supporting the decision making process. The online ...

An online risk assessment tool for alien species transfers via the ballast water of commercial ships has been released jointly by OSPAR and HELCOM

Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt and Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage both questioned transport minister Stephen Hammond in a  recent debate on new anti-pollution shipping laws, The  Portsmouth News reports. There are fears the new regulations for low sulphur rules, due to come into effect on January 1 next year, will force ferry operators to push up prices and make job cuts. Mr Hammond said he was disappointed shipping companies are saying they will not be able to change their fleets to more environmentally friendly ones in time. He said the regulation was part of an international agreement, which the UK could not delay, and that the Chamber of Shipping had agreed in 2008 that it was a realistic 
timescale. During the debate, Mr Hammond expressed his disappointment with this appeal to postpone the implementation of sulphur emission rules, pointing out that ECA rules are an international issue, which a single country is not in a position to delay, "It is not an action that has happened today, yesterday or even last year. It is something the shipping industry has had over six years to get its head around," Mr Hammond said. Source: Portsmouth News  In the start, I was explicit with you propecia before ...