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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!