Digital Ship Dubai 2009

We invite you to register for our 4th Digital Ship Dubai conference on April 21-22, our annual gathering for Middle East shipping companies, to keep up to speed with new technologies and methods are helping to improve safety and efficiency of maritime business.

Our conference focuses on three particular areas where there is exciting new development. satellite communications - keeping the vessel in better contact with the office and crew in better contact with their families; supplies - ensuring the vessel has the supplies and spare parts it needs, delivered at the right time; and maintaining performance - including ensuring you have good enough bunker supplies (even if they were ordered by the charterer), electronic navigation tools, and tools to help you simultaneously comply with a range of different legislation.

Sponsored by Inmarsat, speakers include UASC, Emarat Maritime, Vegaship, SevenSeas Marine, DNV, Inmarsat, Wilhelmsen Ships Service, GAC Logistics, ABS Nautical Systems, SpecTec, ShipEquip, Dubai Maritime Business Group, ShipServ, among others.

We invite you to view our program and consider whether you would like to attend our conference. There is no admission charge for employees of ship operating companies.

Delegates registered so far include Albwardy Marine, Vela International Marine Limited (senior marine superintendent, senior buyer), ADNATCO & NGSCO (information technology and logistics engineer), Vega Ship Management (operations manager), Platinum Yachts (fleet manager), International Registries (regional manager - Middle East), Crete Trans Island Pte. Ltd (safety officer), Royce International (commercial manager, shipping executive); Alfa Laval Middle East (regional business manager, sales engineer), Tristar Energy (CE - shipping), NYK Shipmanagement (chief officer), Dubai Maritime City (director), Emarat Maritime (senior systems analyst), Nakheel (program manager - Queen Elizabeth 2), Navisafe Engineering (director), Transas Middle East (general manager), Gulf Energy Maritime (technical superintendent, head of fleet, system administrator), Simatech (IT administrator), Inchcape Shipping Services (manager), Germanischer Lloyd (business development manager), Fichte and Co (legal consultant), Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (superintendent technical support), Intelsat (managing sales director), Qatar Shipping Company (acting manager IT), Seaways International (technical manager, systems manager), SAFA(commercial manager), Orange Business Services, Mid East Shipmanagement (ship operator), Gulf Shipping Maritime (manager marine), Filtek Middle East (managing director), MASH Group of companies, (general manager), National Transport Authority (port state control), Gulf Energy Maritime (technical superintendent, head of fleet), Elcome (key account manager - deep sea), Vela International Marine (senior buyer), Simatech (IT administrator, system administrator, gm technical), Inchcape (manager), Germanischer Lloyd (business development manager),

SPEAKERS - MARITIME COMMUNICATIONS SESSION
Rudi Joustra, president, Dubai Maritime Business Group and general manager, Elcome International LLC (chair)
Mohamed Zaitoun, fleet marine technology superintendent, United Arab Shipping Company
Kartik Sinha, maritime market manager, Inmarsat
Knut Helge Drivenes, sales director EMEA, ShipEquip
Gunsten Borresen, Sr. E & I Superintendent, OSG Shipmanagement (UK)

SPEAKERS - MARITIME SUPPLIES SESSION
Captain Peter Machado, General Manager. Seven Seas Group
Peter Young, Director - Sales, Dubai Maritime City (chair)
Nikolai Norman, head of global oil and gas
segment team, Wilhelmsen Ships Service
Chris Steibelt, managing director, GAC Logistics
Sharon Gill, Middle East sales director, ShipServ

SPEAKERS - MARITIME OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Peter Hamer, area manager, DNV Middle East (chair)
Captain Ravi Dey, Head - Tanker Division, Emarat Maritime.
Ranjan Mookherjee, managing director, Vegaship, Dubai
Capt. Jaafar Bin Sidin, Director Dubai Maritime City Campus.
Matthew Hodkinson, product manager, SpecTec
Willy Zeiler, marketing manager, Jeppesen Marine

AGENDA

DAY ONE MORNING SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

Chair:Rudi Joustra, president, Dubai Maritime Business Group and general manager, Elcome International LLC

9.20 Welcome address: Rudi Joustra, president, Dubai Maritime Business Group and general manager, Elcome International LLC

Dubai Maritime Business Group will be established in 2009, to promote the Dubai maritime industry, represent the interests of Dubai shipping companies and provide a maritime networking platform. It is an initiative of Dubai Maritime City and formed under the auspices of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

9.30 Mohamed Zaitoun, fleet marine technology superintendent, United Arab Shipping Company

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. www.uasc.net

10.00 Getting the most from Inmarsat FleetBroadband.
Kartik Sinha, maritime market manager, Inmarsat

Inmarsat operates the satellite communications system used by most of the world's merchant shipping fleet which also forms the backbone of global GMDSS provision. In August 2008 Inmarsat launched the 3rd of its next generation Inmarsat-4 satellites, which will provide simultaneous voice and data at speeds of up to 432 kbs. www.inmarsat.com

10.30 Developments with VSAT in the Middle East. Knut Helge Drivenes, sales director EMEA, ShipEquip Supported by Gunsten Borresen, Sr. E & I Superintendent, OSG Shipmanagement (UK).

ShipEquip is one of the world's largest maritime VSAT companies, and its business is currently growing at 40 per cent annually.

11.00 Break

11.30 Developments with crew calling. Kartik Sinha, maritime market manager, Inmarsat

12.00 Panel discussion - moving forward with maritime satcom

12.30 Lunch

Day One Lunch sponsor:

2.00 DAY ONE AFTERNOON - MAKING SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SUPPLIES AT THE RIGHT TIME

Chairman: Peter Young, Director - Sales, Dubai Maritime City

2.00 How to get the best relationship with your ship supplier
Captain Peter Machado, Group General Manager. Seven Seas Group

Capt. Peter Machado is group general manager, Seven Seas Shipchandlers Group, Dubai, one of the largest ship suppliers in the world, with operations in U.A.E., Afghanistan, Australia, Bahrain, Djibouti, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Singapore and U.S.A. Seven Seas offers general ship supply, a comprehensive range of marine services and also provides technical and logistics support. www.sevenseasgroup.com

2.30 Co-ordinating with maritime service providers
. Nikolai Norman, sales director - Africa, Middle East, Black Sea and Indian sub continent, and head of global oil and gas segment team, Wilhelmsen Ships Service

Wilhelmsen Ships Service claims to be the world's leading maritime services network. Last year it made 208,000 product deliveries to customer vessels and handled 53,000 port calls. The company acquired Unitor, the world's largest ship supplier, in 2005. It recently launched services in certain ports to notify customers by SMS when a shipment arrives in port.

3.00 Developments with electronic purchasing in the shipping industry. Giampiero Soncini, CEO, SpecTec

Giampiero Soncini is CEO of software company SpecTec, the world's largest maritime software compay. Early in his career he spent 14 years in the Italian Navy and 12 years at NATO, where he acted as a technical manager for research vessels, one of which was the first vessel with GPS and an INS. www.spectec.net

3.30 Break

Day One Afternoon break sponsor:

4.00 - How having integrated software can help the overall procurement cycle - integrating maintenance systems, spare parts inventory, tracking of parts used in maintenance, drydock execution. Mark Swift, client manager EMEA, ABS Nautical Systems

ABS Nautical Systems is one of the world's largest maritime software companies, based in Houston. It is part of maritime classification society ABS, which is one of the largest classification societies in the Middle East. www.abs-ns.com

4.30 Managing logistics of ship supplies
Chris Steibelt, managing director, GAC Logistics

Chris Steibelt is managing director, GAC Marine Logistics, a specialist in global supply chain management of ship spares and marine parts, offering door-to-deck solutions. Its Head Office is based in Jebel Ali. www.gacworld.com

5.00 Panel discussion - What are the most important steps we need to make today to help shipowners improve efficiency of purchasing and management of supplies?

5.30 Drinks reception - sponsored by Stratos
Drinks sponsor:

6.45 Bus departs for dinner

7.00 EVENING DINNER - sponsored by Inmarsat. All delegates, speakers and exhibitors warmly invited.

Marina Island at the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht club

DAY TWO MORNING - PARALLEL SESSIONS - MARITIME PERFORMANCE AND INMARSAT FLEET BROADBAND TRAINING
(parallel session - Inmarsat FleetBroadband training)

9.30 SESSION: MAXIMISING OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Chair: Peter Hamer, area manager, DNV Middle East

Peter Hamer is currently Area Manager of DNV Middle East. After a career at sea Peter Hamer completed a degree in Naval Architecture at Newcastle University in 1991 and has since spent 18 years with DNV as a Surveyor/Auditor, Offshore Project Manager and Consultant. In 1998 he moved to Africa as Country Manager for DNV Africa where he set up DNV operations in several West African Countries. In 2006 he moved to DNV Qatar as District Manager and took over from Eivind Grostad as Middle East Manager on 1st January 2009

9.30 - Oil major approaches to tanker companies. Captain Ravi Dey, Head - Tanker Division, Emarat Maritime.

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, including 15 years as master. He sailed with Great Eastern Shipping Company (1975-1984), then joined V.Ships, where in 1995 he was involved in getting V.Ships' first ever safety management certificate. In 1999 he joined Tschudi and Eitzen Ship Management Alliance (TESMA), sailing until 2003, when he came ashore to join Emarat Maritime.

10.00 - Ranjan Mookherjee, managing director, Vegaship, Dubai Ensuring you have the right quality of bunkers onboard - even if they are purchased by the charterer.

Mr Mookherjee is managing director of Vegaship Management. He was previously operations manager of International Tanker Management. Vegaship Management was founded in July 2008 under license from Dubai Maritime City. It has 23 vessels under post fixture management including chemical and gas tankers. Other services include post fixture work for Time Charterers; port captaincy / loss control / bunker investigations for time charterers; maritime consultancy - Evaluation of ports / terminals.

10.30 Plans for the Emirates International Maritime Academy at Dubai Maritime City. Capt. Jaafar Bin Sidin, Director of Dubai Maritime City Campus. Courses in maritime engineering and maritime navigation.

Captain Ja’afar bin Sidin is director of Dubai Maritime City Campus, a multimillion dollar project to build a maritime campus in Dubai Maritime City, that will house selected reknown international maritime universities and reputable training providers. The Campus will have the state-of-art facilities and will complement the maritime cluster that is being developed in Dubai Maritime City. He is also responsible for the founding of the Emirates International Maritime Academy which is the first maritime institution of its kind in the United Arab Emirates. Captain Ja’afar began his maritime career as a deck cadet with Ocean Fleets Ltd, Liverpool, United Kingdom in 1971. He later served as a master with Thome Pte Ltd. He later held the position of deputy director of Singapore Maritime Academy, Singapore Polytechnic. Capt Ja’afar served as a member of the International Maritime Organisation Group of Consultants for the redrafting of the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1978, as revised STCW 95.

11.00 BREAK

11.30 Making it easier to comply simultaneously with many different pieces of legislation Matthew Hodkinson, product manager and business analyst, SpecTec (Matthew Hodkinson is a former quality assurance manager of ASP Shipmanagement

Matthew Hodkinson is product manager and business analyst, SpecTec, the world's largest maritime software company. He was previously group safety manager, ASP Shipmanagement, Melbourne. Matthew joined ASP Ship Management in 1995 and served through the ranks on a number of ship types before settling into the tanker side of the business. After a period of secondment ashore to Exxon Mobil as Marine Superintendent, Matthew entered the ASP Melbourne Office to implement the ISPS Code. In March 2005 he was appoint Group Safety Manager and assigned the task of consolidating the various safety and quality management systems in place.

12.00 Incoming legislative requirements for electronic charts - and how electronic charts can contribute to improving maritime performance. Willy Zeiler, marketing manager, Jeppesen Marine.

Willy Zeiler is marketing manager of Jeppesen Marine, which is part of Boeing. Jeppesen is the world's largest supplier of charts to aviation, and entered the maritime market following its acquisition of charts supplier C-MAP in January 2007. Willy Zeiler was previously marketing manager of C-MAP.

12.30 Panel discussion - moving forward on maritime operational performance

Parallel session - Inmarsat FleetBroadband training

10.00 - 11.30 Inmarsat's FleetBroadband satellite communications service, launched in November 2007, has now been installed on over 1300 vessels, offering data communications speeds of up to 432 kbps with terminals as small as 25cm diameter, with the reliability and weather resilience Inmarsat provides. At our Inmarsat FleetBroadband training session, led by Inmarsat's corporate training staff, you can get the answers of questions you will need to help your company make decisions about whether FleetBroadband is the right way forward, and how to get the most out of it.

1.00 Lunch

DAY TWO AFTEROON -
TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE
10 min presentations of exciting new technology

2.00 Rudi Joustra, general manager, Elcome An on-board camera system which can automatically track targets, to be used to identify possible pirate vessels and help reduce collisions.

2.10 Rajesh Bhatt ,Manager-Satellite Communications, Zener OneNet- a new technology for crew calling

2.20 Mats Back, director business development, C2Sat. A new technology for maritime VSAT.

2.30 Niels Reuther, KVH Mini VSAT - VSAT communications with a 60cm terminal.

2.40 Frank E. Woetzel, managing director EPAK GmbH - Design of satellite link solutions in terms of bandwidth, access models for small size maritime VSATs (60cm and 90cm diameter)

2.50 Vikas Chand, Group Sales Director, Emperion A/s - developments with maritime VSAT

3.00 Duncan John Harwood, sales manager, Docmap Developments with maritime document management

3.10 Finish