intercargo international association of dry cargo shipowners presentation to tripartite seoul, 15-16...
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INTERCARGOInternational Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners
Presentation to Tripartite
Seoul, 15-16 September, 2006
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Sharing Information for Ships in Service(Incident Information Sharing)
Where do we want to be?
Every Direction Paper, Mission, Vision
and Goal Statement talks about
Quality, Safety and Transparency.
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The current situation?
• Owners are reluctant to release information for commercial reasons;
• Class take their instructions from their clients e.g. owners and shipbuilders;
• Limited information sharing within Class.
A Reality Gap exists between stated desire
and what actually happens.
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Positive Drivers
• Industry Consolidation
• Corporate Governance
• Self Regulation
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Negative Drivers
• Regulators
• Legal
• Commercial
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Key Areas of Enhancement
• Human (accidents, etc)
• Technical (machinery failures, performance)
• Casualties ( sister ship, yard competence, steel batches, etc)
• Operational (collisions, groundings, pollution, etc)
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Human Element
• Acknowledged importance as a prime link in the chain
• No agreement on measurement of competency
• Root Cause Analysis under discussion
• Examinations are only part of the process
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Hull, Machinery and Equipment
Consider:
• Commercial implications at every stage
• Mechanisms for recording and collecting information – no common resource
• Insurance implications
• Counterfeiting of spare parts
• Restrictive practices e.g. national
• Plus: Confidentiality Clauses
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Casualties
Data providers:
• Flag States – Casualty reports to IMO
• Commercial organisations e.g. LR Fairplay
• Port State Control
• Sector Analysis e.g.Intercargo/Dry Bulk
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Operational Negative Performance IndicatorsINTERCARGO has benchmarked the Bulk Carrier Fleet against the following incidents:
Anchoring & Steering, Arrest, Cargo issues, Collision, Contact (ship), Contact (fixed object), Crew issues, Fire/Explosion, Grounding, Pollution, Propulsion, Structural, Terminal, Other
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Statement of Facts
• Information exists but it is not being
released
• Confidential reporting systems are in place e.g. CHIRP and MARS
• Tanker Structure Co-operation Forum has been in place for many years – could it be used for other sectors
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The Way Forward
• How committed are we to effect change?
• Do we believe that change is necessary?
• Could we establish a resource website to share information on a need to know basis?
• Does ‘Freedom of Information’ have its limits?
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THANK YOU!