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The ROUND TABLE of international shipping
associations
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BIMCO International Chamber of Shipping (Internati
onal Shipping Federation) INTERCARGO INTERTANKO
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Vision for the shipping industry A
responsible, sustainable and respected industry
able to influence its own destiny
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  • The ROUND TABLE of international shipping
    associations
  • voluntary cooperation to
  • Promote common policy positions
    representative of wide common membership
  • Provide strong and united shipowner voice
    in International Forums
  • Ensure more effective use of limited
    resources
  • Avoid surprises / resolve potential conflicts
    in policies

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Examples of Round Table cooperation
  • Joint submissions to IMO
  • Common positions with respect to EU issues
  • Establishment of INTERGROUP as formal stakeholder
    interface with EU Parliament,
    Commission, Council and EMSA
  • Tripartite meetings of owners, builders and class
  • Flag State guidelines (updated)
  • The image of shipping working with IMO et al

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  • AGENDA
  • Maintaining Supremacy of IMO International
    Maritime Law
  • Common Structural Rules Goal Based Standards
  • Criminalisation of Seafarers
  • Challenges to Industry Governance Structures
  • Other
  • People issues Piracy
  • Ship Recycling Environmental Challenges
  • Competition Rules Security
  • Oil Pollution Liability ( Compensation)

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Maintaining Supremacy of IMO International
Maritime Law Against the challenges of Local and
Regional Legislation
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15 years ago the US Today Europe !!
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Increasing politicization of regulation
  • Examples
  • Phase out of single hull tankers
  • West European Particularly Sensitive Sea Area
  • Moves to open up CLC/Fund Convention and link
    with substandard shipping
  • Penal sanctions adopted by EU, criminalising
    accidental pollution
  • Why?
  • Coastal state interests versus flag states, and
    reduced influence of maritime constituency
  • Power of EU Commission

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THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS the power plays
Commission (The executive)
EMSA
European Parliament (Direct election)
Council (Member States)
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HOW IT WAS Examples of positive regulatory
developments (the IMO spirit)
  • ISM Code and STCW (training)
  • post Estonia passenger ferry measures
  • IMO bulk carrier safety package
  • Development of ILO Super Convention
  • Outcomes broadly based on technical merits of
    arguments put forward.
  • Industry viewpoint understood, if not always
    accepted.

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HOW IT IS The Challenges Today
  • More political drivers and less consideration of
    the technical, operational, and commercial
    interests
  • More unworkable, inconsistent and illogical
    regulation and less consideration of the
    practical aspects
  • More pressure for local / regional regulation and
    less willingness to adopt and apply international
    regulation

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Maintaining Supremacy of IMO International
Maritime Law
  • What are the threats?
  • 15 Years Ago the United States (OPA90)
  • Today the European Union
  • Politics post Erika and Prestige
  • Conflict with International legislation (UNCLOS,
    MARPOL)
  • Criminalisation
  • EU Commission proposals for EU Common Position at
    IMO

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Maintaining Supremacy of IMO International
Maritime Law
  • International Regulation for an International
    Industry
  • What the industry seeks from the Asian region
  • Consistent support for IMO and the international
    approach
  • Rejection of regional initiatives
  • If possible, avoidance of block voting to
    combat EU moves in this direction

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Maintaining Supremacy of IMO International
Maritime Law
  • International Regulation for an International
    Industry
  • Questions
  • How can we involve Asian industry more
    effectively?
  • What are the principal concerns seen through
    Asian eyes?
  • Can the RT interact better with Asian shipping
    community on these matters?

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Common Structural Rules Goal Based Standards
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Common Structural Rules
  • Background
  • Concerns over erosion of design margins and
    construction tolerances due to
  • Competition for Market Share by Classification
    Societies
  • More refined design capabilities
  • Pressure from shipyards to minimise steel weights
  • Pressure from owners for lower costs of
    newbuildings

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Common Structural Rules
  • Consequences of reduced design margins
  • Greater focus is placed on ship maintenance
    procedures
  • Increasing concerns expressed by regulators on
    structural integrity of existing ships
  • Challenges to function of classification
    societies
  • Introduction of Goal Based Standards for ship
    construction at IMO

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Common Structural Rules
  • Current situation
  • TANKER rules (JTP) developed by Lloyds Register,
    ABS, Norske Veritas (LAN)
  • Generally acceptable to much of industry (subject
    certain caveats) but not all
  • Limited support from other IACS members
  • BULK CARRIER rules (JBP) developed by 7 IACS
    members
  • Mixed reception from industry (many caveats)
  • Support from LAN IACS members not forthcoming
  • Only limited harmonisation of design assumptions
    and modelling techniques between JTP and JBP
  • IACS under considerable strain to maintain
    cohesive position and internal harmony

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Common Structural Rules
  • Outstanding issues
  • Around harmonisation
  • Influence of prescriptive requirements
  • Wave shear force and wave loads
  • Buckling and ultimate strength
  • Finite Element Calculation procedure
  • Fatigue analysis
  • Industry acceptance of
  • Corrosion allowances
  • Verification of coatings (application
    performance)

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Goal Based Standards
  • Introduced in to IMO by Bahamas and Greece
    following Prestige accident
  • Initially addressing ship structural standards,
    but with potential for extension to much of SOLAS
    and MARPOL legislation and more
  • Principles still being debated versus other
    methodologies (prescriptive versus risk based)

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Simplified Tier Concept
Goal-based Safety Objectives
Tier I
Tier II
Goal-based Functional Requirements
Design and Construction
Maintenance
Operation
Tier III
Verification of Compliance
Class Rules (Detailed requirement)
Tier IV
Code of Practice for Construction, Maintenance
and Operation
Tier V
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Common Structural Rules
  • Is there support for the principle of Common
    Structural Rules ?
  • Subject to clarification of current drafts, is
    it now prudent to support the latest versions of
    both JTP and JBP rules, while at the same time
    encouraging further progressive harmonisation
    between the tanker and bulker rules ?
  • How important is IACS unity and what can
    industry do to support encourage this ?

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Criminalisation of Seafarers
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CRIMINALISATION
  • Traditionally accidents have been regarded as
    quite distinct from deliberate acts
  • Attitudes have changed (scapegoat mentality)
  • e.g. Captain Mangouras, The Karachi Eight
  • EU Directive on Ship-Source Pollution (despite
    wide industry coalition)
  • Canadian Bill C-15
  • US approach (whistle blowing, enormous fines and
    rewards)

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Criminalisation
  • INDUSTRY supports the investigation and
    prosecution of illegal discharges of oil from
    ships.
  • INDUSTRY strongly objects to criminalising
    accidental oil pollution and to treating
    seafarers as criminals
  • Any criminal offence of pollution from a ship
    must be clearly defined and in accordance with
    international law.
  • Any penalties imposed on someone found guilty of
    such an offence must be proportionate.
  • There should also be parity with any penalties
    imposed for pollution from land based sources.
  • Any suspects must be treated fairly, impartially
    and in accordance with international law on human
    rights.

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Criminalisation
  • Additionally
  • INDUSTRY expects coastal states to comply with
    their existing treaty law obligations to provide
    adequate, affordable, oil waste reception
    facilities.
  • In order to safeguard the lives of seafarers and
    the marine environment, INDUSTRY urges coastal
    states to ensure proper contingency plans are put
    in place so that adequate assistance and if
    necessary a place of refuge can be made available
    to a ship in distress.

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CRIMINALISATION
  • Do Asian owners share these concerns ?
  • Is there a downside in fighting this?
  • How / where should we be concentrating our
    efforts?
  • INDUSTRY principles are they universally
    supported?

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Challenges to Industry Governance
Structures Flag Classification Societies Port
State Control PI Clubs
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The good, the bad and all legitimate
  • Selection of Flag

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Challenges for Flag
  • IMO Flag State Audit (currently voluntary but
    pressure to make mandatory)
  • Port State Control
  • - Currently white, black and grey lists
  • - EU moving to target non-audited flags with
    preferential treatment measures
  • Political, public, union and media pressures
    especially on open registers
  • Industry currently providing guidance /
    recommendations, and moving to do more

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Flag State Guidelines- industry advice
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Challenges for Classification Societies
  • EU Challenge on Role of Class
  • perceived conflict of interest between
    statutory and classification activities
  • Common Structural Rules
  • ability to deliver while maintaining IACS
    harmony
  • Role relative to Goal Based Standards
  • IMO/Flag states versus IACS control of Goal
    Based Standards
  • Who sets class agenda owners, builders, flag
    states or class managers ?
  • Example coatings standards (IMO DE discussion)

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Challenges for Port State Control (PSC)
  • Need
  • Better harmonisation and consistency of
    standards, training, etc. across all PSC regimes
  • Consistency in inspection and targeting criteria
    based in part on analysis of PSC records and
    not arbitrary mechansisms, such as quota systems
  • Global sharing and mutual recognition of records
    between MoUs, with data logged in central system
    such as EQUASIS
  • Uniformity in internal procedures, such as clear
    grounds for detention, independent appeal panels,
    close-out of deficiencies, etc.
  • To ensure that the integrity of PSC is maintained

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Challenges for PI Clubs Club Boards
  • OECD Report Role of PI in respect of
    substandard shipping
  • IOPC Revision Procedures
  • Pending Compulsory Insurance requirements
  • Who manages the agenda
  • Shipowners or Club Managers ?

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  • Challenges to Industry Governance Structures
  • Do Asian shipowners share the same concerns over
    these challenges for Flag, Classification
    Societies, Port State Control and PI Clubs ?
  • What are the particular concerns ?
  • Could we be doing more collectively to address
    any of these concerns ?

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  • Two Questions that we have asked ourselves
  • Can the Round Table involve regional shipping
    voices more effectively in global (and other
    regional) arenas ?
  • Does the Round Table have a role in supporting
    local and regional shipping associations in their
    local and regional issues ?

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  • AGENDA
  • Maintaining Supremacy of IMO International
    Maritime Law
  • Common Structural Rules Goal Based Standards
  • Criminalisation of Seafarers
  • Challenges to Industry Governance Structures
  • Other
  • People issues Piracy
  • Ship Recycling Environmental Challenges
  • Competition Rules Security
  • Oil Pollution Liability ( Compensation)

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PEOPLE ISSUES(HUMAN FACTORS)
  • Heavy recent concentration on hardware issues
  • (e.g. accelerated phase-out, CSRs, goal-based
    standards etc)
  • Yet people still cause most incidents

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PEOPLE ISSUES(HUMAN FACTORS)
  • Industry has to address
  • Shortages of qualified officers (BIMCO/ISF 2005)
  • Renewed criticisms of training standards (time
    to review STCW 95 ?)
  • Implications/causes of fatigue (ISPS etc.)
  • Manning levels
  • In the background, CONMARCON

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PIRACY
  • Extent of the problem
  • Focus of attention on Regions
  • - Malacca Straits
  • - Somalia
  • - West Africa
  • Developments

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  • There is still a problem Worldwide
  • - 2003 445 attacks
  • - 2004 325 attacks
  • Malacca Straits
  • - 2003 28 attacks
  • - 2004 37 attacks

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Crew Members - 2004 30 killed, 30 missing In
Malacca Straits - 2004 4 killed, 3 injured, 36
kidnapped Indonesia accounts for 25 of all
attacks worldwide
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  • Somalia
  • Concerted attacks against larger ships
  • 60 nm off the coast
  • West Africa
  • - Denial of a problem
  • - Lagos has the highest record of attacks

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  • Targets
  • Tug Tows
  • Low in the water
  • Slow moving
  • Small Tankers
  • Bulk Carriers

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Current developments Improved cooperation and
joint patrols in Malacca Strait, July
2004 Pan-Asia anti-piracy initiative Regional
Cooperation Agreement or ReCAAP Malaysian
Maritime Enforcement Agency 6 patrol boats up
to 40 vessels plus helicopters within 5 years.
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  • Current developments (cont.)
  • Inventus UAV
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  • Reconnaissance system for aerial surveillance
  • Secure Ship
  • - 9000 volt pulse to deter boardings
  • Shiploc
  • Ship security alert system
  • Ship tracking device

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  • PROBLEMS REMAIN
  • Hot Pursuit
  • Lack of Resources
  • Need for an effective deterrent

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Ship Recycling ship breaking, scrapping,
demolition
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International guidelines on best practice
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Ship Recycling
  • Industry supporting
  • measures to ensure that ship recycling not just a
    sound but a sustainable industry
  • development of effective regulation through
    adoption of the relevant elements of the
  • - IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling
  • - ILO Safety Health Guidelines on Shipbreaking
  • - Technical Guidelines of the Basel Convention

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Ship Recycling Issues for shipowners
  • Green Passport format to be standardised
  • IMO Guidelines
  • - key elements to be made mandatory via
    international convention
  • - guidance notes being developed on the
    implemenation of the Guidelines
  • Inventory of Hazardous Materials document
  • - still only limited utilisation
  • Demolition Contract related to the IMO Guidelines
    (such as BIMCO Demolishcon)
  • - only limited application to date

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Ship Recycling Issues for shipbreakers
  • In general there is a need for
  • development and introduction of Code of Practice
    for HSE management
  • and/or legislation to ensure compliance with
    best practice / international conventions
  • breaking yards to be licensed
  • specifically
  • Breakers need to adopt and implement
  • Ship Recycling Plan as set out in the IMO
    Guidelines
  • Health and Safety plans as set out in the ILO
    Guidelines
  • Plans for the handling of hazardous waste as set
    out in the Basel Convention

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Environmental Challenges
  • Air Emissions
  • (Low sulphur bunker issues)
  • Ballast Water Management

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IOPC Compensation Limits- as revised 2003/2005
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