Digital Ship Dubai 2008

Management systems and communications

Day one - May 20th - satellite commmunications and technology

Day two - May 21st - crew performance and retention

Our third annual Digital Ship Dubai event will focus on management systems and communications, including maximising crew performance and retention - how to get the best performance from your crew, and make them stay with your company.

We will be presenting the latest new technology for satellite communications and vessel management, and first hand experience from the people who are using it, to talk about how well it works for them.

All delegates, speakers and exhibitors are invited to attend an evening dinner at Dubai Creek Yacht club on the evening of May 20th, sponsored by Inmarsat.

Delegates registered to date include Akran Trade & Transport, IT Manager; Anchor Marine Equipment Repair Project Manager; Apeejay Shipping Ltd, Chief Technology Officer; Asaker Marine & Shipping, Managing Director; Fahad Al Bahar Sons Trading Co, Division Manager; Gulf Energy Maritime, Systems Administrator, Fleet Personnel Manager; Gulf Marine Services W.L.L, Systems Engineer; Hibridean Cruises, Superintendent; IAL Container Line (UK) Ltd, Gen Mgr, Operations; ITM, VP, Techncial Management; Karimar Shipping & Trading Co, Managing Director; Karimar Shipping & Trading Co. Lamnalco, It Manager; Marco Shipping (LLC), Marine Manager/DPA; Mash Group of Companies, General Manager; Mubarak Marine LLC, IT Head; NGSCO, IT Logistics Engineer; Oasis Maritime Services LLC, Systems Analyst, System Administrator; Royce International Trading LLC, Dubai, Commercial Manager; Sea Trucks Group FZE, Operations Manager; UASC, Software Analyst; Van Oord; Varun Shipping Co Ltd, Senior General Manager (systems, Personnel and Admin ); Vela International Marine Ltd, Senior Superintendent (Electrical)

Register now to reserve your place by completing our registration form.

AGENDA

DAY ONE - SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

Chairman: Abhilash Mehrotra, general manager, Newslink Services

9.30 CCC Underwater Engineering - Experiences with VSAT implementation. Captain Derrick Green, Marine Superintendent, CCC Underwater Engineering
Plans to implement VSAT - how well it went, why they made the decision and what they are using it for.

Consolidated Contractors Company (Underwater Engineering) S.A.L. is a leading provider of offshore construction and subsea services to the offshore and Oil & Gas Industry in the Middle East. It operates CCC Pioneer, a construction / dive support vessel.

Joined by Magne Remøy, senior sales manager, Marlink.

10.00 Inmarsat' FleetBroadband - what it offers, what it can do. Kartik Sinha, maritime market manager, Inmarsat

10.30 Enabling seafarers to use their GSM phones onboard - impact on crew retention and motivation. Robert Johnson, managing director, Blue Ocean Wireless.

11.00 Break

11.30 Iridium OpenPort - a new service for ship-shore communications offering up to 128 kbps at low cost. Wouter Deknopper, director maritime market EMEA, Iridium

11.55 Thuraya's offering for the maritime industry. Marwan Khoury, Thuraya

12.20 Cost benefits of providing communications services for seafarers. Kartik Sinha, maritime market manager, Inmarsat

12.45 Discussion - how can technology do the most to contribute to improving safety and life onboard in today's shipping companies.

1.00 Lunch

2.30 Ship's accidents and how technology can play a rule to reduce it. Mohammed Zaitoun, fleet marine technology superintendent, United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) , in joint presentation with Rudi C. Joustra, general manager, Elcome International

Mohammed Zaitoun is fleet marine technology superintendent, responsible for navigation, communication and bridge systems, United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), the largest ocean carrier of dry cargo to the Middle East. It has 22 container ships of 1240 to 3800 TEU, and 3 23,800 dwt dry cargo vessels.

Rudi Joustra is general manager, Elcome International, Dubai, one of the largest maritime electronics sales and service agencies in Dubai. www.elcome.ae

3.00 Data cleaning - how to make sure your data is as good as it can be. Bob Kessler, head EMEA, ABS Nautical Systems .
How data will degrade rapidly without care
Why it is so important
How bad quality costs money and resources
How to maintain data quality
ShipDex as a possible aid in data quality

Bob Kessler is head of ABS Nautical Systems for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before that he was planned maintenance supervisor with Stolt Nielsen Transportation Group (since 1999), looking after all maintenance and purchasing data for a fleet of over 60 ships, and before that a seafarer and a port engineer.

3.30 BREAK

4.00 TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE Presentations of exciting new technology (10 minutes maximum).

4.00: Dr. Harald W. Stange, Director of Business Unit - ICT Services, Detecon Al Saudia Co Ltd. A VSAT communications technology for shipping, running over Intelsat.

4.10 A crew calling technology for maritime. Ian Taylor, Zynetix

4.20 Managing data networks over FleetBroadband. Thomas Mueller is managing director with Becker Marine Systems Communication

umc.global network value added services,
fleetbroadband link optimization and throughput enhancement,
insights of a current evaluation (on the basis of Rickmers Holding GmbH & Cie. KG);

4.30 Quinus Pillai, VP sales, Middle East, Cybit.

4.40 Michalis Hadjistylianou, director, Zener OneNet (ZONE) Limited Fleetbroadband, the opportunities and challenges for the IT Managers

4.50 Michael Meijer marketing manager maritime, Stratos Value added service to FleetBroadband

5.00Cocktails and evening dinner sponsored by Inmarsat

Evening dinner will be held at Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club - free to attend for all speakers and delegates

Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club

DAY TWO - Crew performance and retention

Does the industry need seafarers who are good at following procedures?

Chairman: Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping

Dimitri Lyras, director of Lyras Shipping, is a member of the Intertanko Council, a member of the Hellenic committee of Intertanko and was previously Vice Chairman in the Communications and Public Relations Committee of Intertanko. He has experience as technical director operating tankers and bulk carries since 1986.

9.30 Adonis Violaris, group marketing and communications manager, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement. Crew Shortages - The Outlook for Supply and Demand of Quality Crews.

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement is the world's second largest shipmanagement company, recently formed from joining together Hanseatic Shipmanagement Company, Eurasia Group, Dorchester Atlantic Marine and Vorsetzen Bereederungs- und Schiffahrtskontor (all four companies were previously owned by the Schulte Group). It has a managed fleet of over 600 vessels, and over 17,000 employees onboard and ashore.

10.00 Capt Ravi Dey, Manager Fleet Operations and DPA, Oasis Maritime Services LLC - Maintaining safe tanker operations - the manpower crunch - wage war - working with the oil majors' officers matrix

Captain Ravi Dey is manager tanker operations / DPA, Emarat Maritime. He has 20 years seagoing experience on various types of tankers and 8 years in the dry cargo fleet. www.emaratmaritime.com

10.30 Captain Adil D.Moos M N I, Fleet Safety Superintendent, Mideast Shipmanagement Ltd, Dubai, UAE. Improving safety of navigation

- The growth in maritime navigation accidents and what is the need of the hour to reduce same .
- Case study

11.00 BREAK

11.30 Effect of crew shortage in the marine industry.Capt Rohit Chadha, general ma nager, Armada Offshore FZE. Bumi Armada is the largest owner and operator of offshore support vessels in Malaysia. It has 1000 staff and 41 vessels.

12.00 The best approach to maximising crew performance and retention Captain Duncan McKelvie FNI, Area Marine Representative, NYK Line, Dubai Office

Captain Duncan McKelvie is NYK Line Marine representative for the Arabian Gulf and Oman, and also chairman of the UAE Branch of the Nautical Institute. He was at sea for 23 years, including 12 as master, on vessels including VLCC's, product tankers, bulk carriers, general cargo.

12.30 Panel discussion: Does the industry need seafarers who are good at following procedures?

1.00 Lunch

Parallel session on May 21 morning - Inmarsat FleetBroadband training

Led by the Inmarsat training department from London, FleetBroadband is Inmarsat's next generation of maritime services delivered via the world's most sophisticated satellites - the I4s. It will bring you simultaneous voice and broadband data through a single terminal incorporating the latest technology, to take you seamlessly into the IP age. Inmarsat will be delivering a 2-hour 'training' session on FleetBroadband at Digital Ship Oslo. During the session, Inmarsat will update you on the technology behind FleetBroadband, the proposed coverage, the prospective services, and the new terminals and network.