Tag: SAFETY4SEA

Retaining the best crews on board is one of the biggest challenges that safety industry is facing, thus, our SeaSense column, in association with the North P&I Club, is now focusing on IMO’s STCW Convention, which sets the baseline for seafarer’s training. However is this Convention delivering the seafarers the industry needs?

The new technologies are going to affect seafarers’ training standards and methodologies, as they are going to be the backbone for any initiative, said Capt. Pravesh Diwan, Director of KARCO-Karishma Marine Solutions, in an exclusive interview with SAFETY4SEA at Europort Conference, in early November.

There are plenty of benefits when a conventional tanker uses the Orca Tank Technology, according to Martijn van denPoppelen, Head Ship Development in Koole Engineering, who talked about this technology during an exclusive interview with SAFETY4SEA at Europort, Rotterdam in early November.

Although LNG is a very environmentally friendly solution and its cost price is close to other fuels, the lack of LNG infrastructure is a main challenge for the operators to invest in LNG, said Karin Orsel, CEO, MF Shipping Group & President KVNR, at an exclusive interview with GREEN4SEA at Europort Conference, in early November.

Although ship operations are teemed with procedures and technical capacity, in the end, it is the awareness and the behavior of people onboard that could make a difference in ship safety, said Theo Klimp, Fleet Director of Wagenborg Shipping, during an exclusive interview with SAFETY4SEA at Europort, Rotterdam in early November.

Dr. William H. Moore, American Club, focuses on the challenges of managing seafarer competence with respect to loss prevention, highlighting that training is necessary not only for regulatory compliance but also to develop skills, and that learning outcomes should be consistent with desired performance objectives.

Rod Lingard, Thomas Miller War Risks Services Ltd, focuses on war risks hot topics and outlines recent developments in a number of areas including, the Gulf of Guinea, particularly Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Asia particularly the Sulu Sea.

A new ransomware named ‘Bad Rabbit’ has been found spreading in Russia, Ukraine recent media reported as recently as 24 October. Hardly a day goes by without news of a fresh cyber-attack. Increasingly the message from cyber security specialists is “think not ‘if we get attacked’ but ‘when’, and be prepared”.

Elias Psyllos, T&T Salvage, advises on the necessary steps that ship operators should take into consideration when they have an emergency grounding: appoint a protecting agent; activate a salvage company; perform on-site assessment; issue a refloating plan; notify OSRO and; execute refloating plan.

Chris Adams, Head of Loss Prevention, Steamship Mutual, discussed how cyber risks affect navigational safety at the 2017 SAFETY4SEA Conference. Considering that the computerization of operating and control systems on vessels requires effective cyber security arrangements, it is vitally important to raise awareness of cyber security risks with personnel and to implement safe practices to avoid putting systems at risk.