Digital Ship Hamburg - 13 - 14 April 2010

Maritime information technology conference and exhibition

Venue: Hamburg Magnushall


We're already looking forward to Digital Ship Hamburg, the first conference and exhibition event we have held in Germany, covering developments with satellite communications, electronic charts and software, with speakers from Phoenix Reederei, Chemikalien Seetransport, ER Offshore, Hartmann AG, Hellespont Hammonia.

Delegates registered so far include Christian F. Ahrenkiel (IT manager); SAL GmbH (general manager IT); Destination Gotland (operation manager); Orion Bulkers (IT director); Hamburg Süd (IT manager), GBA Ships e.V. (electrical manager)

Patric Desanti, project manager for maintenance management with Chemikalien Seetransport, will talk about the company's recent fleet wide IT and communications upgrade, including FleetBroadband on the fleet, a new IT infrastructure across ship and shore, and how this is used to support the maintenance and quality systems the company needs. Also how he applied experiences gained in his previous position, at an oil refinery.

Martin Ehmen, IT manager of Phoenix Reederei will talk about his company's recent IT and communications upgrade - including from Inmarsat B to FleetBroadband, from Excel to computerised planned maintenance, and installing a new intranet fleet management application - and answer the question of whether the company is happy without VSAT.

AGENDA

Day one - satellite comunications
Chairman: Ron Vollenga, Outsource-IT management



In 2007 Ron Vollenga established Outsource-IT Management. Previously he worked in several (IT) management positions within P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk Ship Management. In his last role as IT Project Manager for the Fleet Division (aka Blue Star Ship Management) he combined the IT, Business and Maritime experience. Within Outsource-IT Management this specific knowledge for maritime ICT environments is put forward as specialty of this company. Over the last two years Outsource-IT Management was involved in the Broadband@Sea Project of Holland Marine Equipment. Recently the company also delivered successfully the project management of a Citrix and Thin Client migration (>3000 seats).

9.25am Joerg Pankow, Fleet Manager, ER Offshore GmbH - experiences with ShipEquip VSAT
E.R. Offshore is in the process of installing SEVSAT from Ship Equip across their offshore fleet, 10 vessels are operational to date. The presentation will outline the installation process and the experiences gained from using SEVSAT.
- requirements and expectations
- choosing a supplier
- challenges in installing VSAT communication
- the effects on operation
- crew welfare
- opportunities and improvements
- traffic statistics.

E.R. Offshore currently manages a fleet of four platform supply vessels which is planned to be joined by a further 15 offshore vessels on order in Norway and South Korea. The company was previously a 50:50 joint venture between OSM Norway and E R Schiffahrt, with all shares taken over by ER Schiffahrt in September 2008.

9.55am Gordon Wendlandt, CEO, Marserv - responsible for IT onboard Carl Buettner Shipmanagement GmbH vessels
-IT-Service outsourcing for shipping companies
-Onboard communication systems and costs (FBB/VSAT/etc)
-Maintenance systems
-Managing onboard IT systems

The core business for Marserv is service and consultancy for maritime IT systems, focussing on ships and shipowners. Most customers are in Northern Europe. The company also offers services for creating manuals, and helping companies comply with regulations. The company does not have any contract with any marker or provider of maritime equipment or services - it is 100 per cent independent. Among other clients, the company provides an outsource IT service to Carl Buettner Shipmanagement, which operates 11 tankers (13,000-24,000 dwt).

10.25 Kartik Sinha, maritime market manager, Inmarsat
FleetBroadband Update 2010
FleetBroadband status
New enhancements and developments



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

10.55 BREAK

Coffee break sponsor: Bass

11.25 Lars Knudsen, head of satellite communications activities, Devoteam (satcom consultant to A P Moller)
Experience gained from advising Danish and German shipowners on their choice of satellite communications
- Acquiring satellite communications; how to get the right solution and avoid common mistakes
- Preparation; who and what should be included
- Creation of requirement specifications
- Supplier management - how to get dedicated suppliers

Lars Knudsen is senior consultant and head of satellite communications activities with Devoteam, a consultancy and engineering company in information technologies in Europe, specialising in information system infrastructures. He assists shipowners and other satellite users with network designs, finding the right solution, requirement specifications and vendor management. His satellite customers include investors, service providers, LESO’s, resellers, customers & users within maritime, oil & gas and landbased activities. I Mr Knudsen has been in the IT and telecom industry since 1994, when he started as LAN/WAN product manager for Tele Danmark and 3 years later was one of the advisors to the CEO. www.devoteam.com

11.50 - Holger Börchers, IT-Manager, Briese Schiffahrts GmbH and Gregor Ross, Sales & Marketing Director , Telaurus Communications LLC Review of an 8-month evaluation of multiple Fleet Broadband and Iridium Openport installations across a mixed fleet of vessels.

Briese Schiffarts own and operate a mixed fleet of more than 100 vessels ranging from scientific research vessels through to 24,000 dwt container ships trading worldwide. Throughout the fleet, Briese currently employ a range of ship-to-shore communications equipment and networks from Classic Iridium through Inmarsat –B to Fleet F77. In advance of a planned upgrade to broadband technologies Briese have been evaluating different Inmarsat Fleet Broad terminals and services alongside Iridium Openport.

Telaurus Communications LLC, a division of Globecomm , are a full satellite service company providing ship-to-shore communication services to over two thousand vessels worldwide. Telaurus’ flagship product SE@COMM is deployed across the Briese fleet of vessels and Telaurus have been working closely with Briese throughout the evaluation project.

12.15 The Platform Broadband@Sea - encouraging transparency in maritime satellite communication market
Isabella van Tuijl, head of innovation, Holland Marine Equipment

- Set-up of the Platform Broadband@Sea, to encourage transparency in the maritime satellite communication market and to stimulate broadband usage on board seagoing vessels
- Outcomes of the project with Vroon, Wagenborg, Anthony Veder, Q-Shipping, Boskalis & Smit



Izabella van Tuijl is Project Manager Innovation at Holland Marine Equipment and in charge of the Platform Broadband@Sea. She has gained her professional experience in the maritime industry in among others fields of insurances (P&I) and ship manning services, after earning her degree in business economics from Nyenrode Business University and as a maritime officer at the Maritime Academy in Rotterdam.

12.30 Panel discussion

12.50 Lunch

2.15 Matti Fruechtenicht, Senior Purchasing Manager Hellespont Hammonia GmbH & Co. KG
Experiences with Marlink VSAT services

Hellespont operates 22 tankers (cruide, product & chemical) and 5 PSV vessels.

2.40 Peter Blackhurst, head of safety services, Inmarsat - developments with Inmarsat's safety services



Peter Blackhurst is head of safety services at Inmarsat, responsible for Inmarsat’s provision of GMDSS. He also has liaison responsibilities for safety and security transmission through SafetyNET, FleetNET, EGC, LRIT, SSAS and development of new technologies. He was previously senior technical standards manager and policy lead for Communications and Navigational equipment at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. He has also had a spell as Chief Radio Surveyor for the UK administration. He has been a radio officer with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and Safmarine.

3.05 Frank Seidler, HR Manager, Hartmann AG (presently also HR Manager Hartmann Offshore)

3.30 Break

4.00 Session: electronic navigation

4.00 SafeBridge - how to cope with endless numbers of bridge consoles. Professor Ralph Becker-Heins, Bremen Shipping University and adjunct to Marlow Navigation.
- Increasing complexity of navigation software
- Aligning navigation equipment from different manufacturers
- Can training for one bridge system mean training for all?
- Safebridge - building a software interface which matches the actual navigation console



Professor Becker-Heins is general manager of MSG Marine Serve, a Hamburg maritime training company, and a professor of navigation at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. He previously worked as a crew manager in one of the world's largest shipmanagement companies (based in Cyprus). He served in the German navy and the merchant marine, reaching rank of master

4.25 Viggo Kristoffersen, sales manager, Jeppesen Marine
Mandatory ECDIS - what are the requirements going to be and what is the best way to meet them?



Viggo Kristoffersen is OEM sales manager at Jeppesen, a supplier of vector chart data and weather information, and a subsidiary of Boeing. It claims to offer hte largest portfolio of official ENC data from a single supplier. Viggo was previously an electro-engineer on the Norwegian offshore industry and sales manager at C-MAP Norway and JRC since 1997.

4.50 Close / beverages

5.30 Drinks reception

6.45 Bus departes for evening dinner

7.00 Evening dinner for all delegates, sponsored by Inmarsat

Day two

Chairman: Gregor Ross, Sales & Marketing Director, Telaurus Communications LLC

Gregor Ross is sales and marketing director – Europe with Telaurus Communications, a maritime satellite service provider. As a research associate at Cardiff University in 1982 he founded one of the world’s first maritime communications companies MCTS – later to become part of GN Comtext where Gregor served as Vice President for several years. On leaving GN Comtext he joined INMARSAT’s e-purchasing company Setfair and then EMS Satcom as Maritime Business Manager.

9.30 Maritime software - a good investment?
Dr Torsten Bussow, vice president maritime software, Germanischer Lloyd
The deployment of new technologies and software plays a significant role in increasing a companies' competitiveness. Compared to other industries the shipping industry investment into software has a lot of upside potential. There are reasons for on both the vendor and the user side that in which we look into.



Dr. Torsten Büssow is heading the Maritime Software division of GL-Group. He has 13 years professional experience in Management and IT consulting in logistics and asset intensive industries, maritime as well as non-maritime. GL Maritime Software is the software provider and system integrator of the maritime industry. We improve our clients' processes and decisions in ship operations and fleet management, both onboard and onshore.

10.00 Martin Ehmen, CEO mareData GmbH, IT manager for Phoenix Reederei, Leer and Global Hanseatic Shipping, Hamburg
"The Phoenix way" -Evolution of communication and IT integration in our shipping company
From Sat-B/Mini-M to FBB, from Iridium to OpenPort
From concept to product: gate4c: Maritime Data Gateway and Intranet fleet management application
Happy without VSat?
From Excel to PMS?
Future

Mr Ehmen handles IT for a fleet of about 36 vessels in a diversified, worldwide context

10.30am Patric Desanti, Project Manager Maintenance Management Systems, Chemikalien Seetransport GmbH
Report from a recent fleetwide IT and communications upgrade
- Reasons for installing Inmarsat FleetBroadband on the whole fleet
- New IT structure - server/syncclient/Commbox for remote control and administration
- How this serves new maintenance management and quality systems required for financial control needs and client requirements
- Applying expertise gained from working in an oil refinery to the maritime sector

11.00 BREAK

11.30 Marco Vatteroni, SpecTec Group ILS manager, Shipdex author and technical manager -
Developments with the Shipdex protocol to enable all technical documentation to be provided onboard vessels electronically rather than on paper



Marco Vatteroni has done a lot of the work to develop the Shipdex Protocol and is currently its technical manager. He represents Shipdex at the S1000D Steering Committee meetings (S1000D is the international specification Shipdex is based on). Marco Vatteroni is the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) manager at SpecTec Group, the world’s largest maritime software company. Before that he was working at the Italian shipyard Fincantieri (Naval Department) developing Computerised Maintenance Systems, participating in Italian Navy industries working groups to develop new electronic standards.

12.00 Creating technical documentation for an older vessel using laser scanning - Ilka Pohl, marine application consultant, AVEVA . Why you don't need to have documents directly from the manufacturer or shipyard to have detailed engineering designs of your vessel you can manipulate in a computer. With an example from laser scanning HMS Belfast (UK).

12.30 Software panel - what software tools can help shipping company operations

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Workshop - What you need to know before you buy VSAT

Organised and sponsored by iDirect and Orange Business Services

Orange ™ Business Services Idirect

(Please note - this workshop has been organised by Orange Business Services and iDirect. All delegates are welcome to attend)

2.00 Opening remarks from chair

2.10 What you need to know before you buy VSAT. Alan Gottlieb, VSAT consultant.

2.35 VSAT and Corporate Network Integration. Michel Verbist, product manager satellite solutions, Orange Business Services

3.00 Justifying the VSAT Investment. Savyon Wasser, iDirect

3.25 Coffee

3.40 VSAT maintenance at sea. Mark Piening, VP Marketing/Product Management, Uplogix

4.05 The fourth dimension - small antennas vs. standard 1.2 meter antennas. Ulf Sundqvist, head of sales C2Sat

4.25 Assuring quality of service - monitoring network performance. Guy Adams, vice president, software engineering, SatManage at iDirect

4.45 WAN optimization and link management over scarce bandwidth resources Antoine Clerget, CEO, UDcast

5.05 Q&A / panel