Digital Ship Hamburg - 13 - 14 April 2010

Maritime information technology conference and exhibition

Venue: Hamburg Magnushall


We're looking forward to Digital Ship Hamburg, 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

A.P.Moller - Maersk / Maersk Supply Service, Head of Communication and Navigation Systems; Beluga Shipping GmbH, Project Coordinator, Project Manager; Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement Deutschland GmbH, IT Manager, Operations Manager; Carl Buettner Shipmanagement GmbH, MD; Christian F. Ahrenkiel GmbH & Co. KG, IT Manager; Claus-Peter Offen Tankschiffreederei (GmbH & Co.), Quality Manager/DPA; Columbia Shipmanagement, Manager NavCom & Electronics; d'Amico di Navigazione, CIO; Destination Gotland AB, Operation Manager; DS Schiffahrt GmbH & Co. KG, Technischer Geschäftsführer; E.R. Schiffahrt GmbH & Cie. KG, IT Manager Fleet, Nautical Senior Superintendent; F.A.Vinnen & Co, Tech. Director; German Tanker Shipping, Technical Inspector; Hamburg Sued KG, IT; Hapag-Lloyd Cruises , IT Manager; Held Bereederungs GmbH & Co.KG, CEO; Juengerhans Maritime Services GmbH & Co kG, IT-Manager; Komrowski Befrachtungskontor KG, Fleet-IT-Coodinator; Köpping Shipping Company Ltd., Manager / IT-Specialist; ORION BULKERS GmbH & Co. KG, IT Director; ORION BULKERS GmbH & Co. KG, Project Manager PMS; Passat Schiffahrtsges.mbH&Co.KG, Fleet Manager;  Administrative Manager; Rickmers Holding GmbH & Cie. KG, New Technologies, Safety & Environment Representative; SAL GmbH & Co. KG, General IT Manager; Scandlines Deutschland, Fleet Manager, Senior Captain; TUI Cruises, IT Manager; VDR - Verband Deutscher Reeder , Director Communications



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).

9.30am 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 eleven platform supply vessels which is planned to be joined by a further 6 anchorhandlers on order in 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.

10.00am 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).

10.30 Kyle Hurst, 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

11.00 BREAK

Coffee break sponsor:

Bass

11.30 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

12.00 - 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.

12.30 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.

12.45 Panel discussion

1.10 Lunch

Lunch Sponsor
Dualog

2.15 Matti Fruechtenicht, Senior Purchasing Manager Hellespont Hammonia GmbH & Co. KG . Supported by Magne Remøy, Segment Manager Transportation, Marlink.
Experiences with Marlink VSAT services

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

2.45 Peter Blackhurst, head of safety services, Inmarsat eGMDSS? Inmarsat's Place in Future Safety Service Provision
20 years and more of the GMDSS
Changing times? Why now?
Low fat or full cream?
A new world with new technologies
Safety services from Inmarsat
Over the horizon



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.

3.15 Break

Break Sponsor
Iridium

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

4.30 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.

5.00 Close / beverages

5.30 Drinks reception

6.45 Bus departs for evening dinner

7.00 Evening dinner for all delegates, sponsored by Inmarsat

Immarsat

Day two

Session: developments with maritime satcoms and software

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

Martin Ehmen, IT manager for Phoenix Reederei, has got an IT background of 21 years, starting as software developer in 1989, and being in maritime business since 2003. In cooperation with a local University, he and his team developed their own intranet fleet management software, including an onboard server system which takes care of communication, to combine and integrate all other parts of Phoenix Reederei data sources like ERP, purchasing, communication and planned maintenance software to one holistic approach. February 2010, Martin Ehmen and Phoenix Reederei outsourced the maritime IT company mareData, which takes care of the Phoenix fleet and of Global Hanseatic Shipping, Hamburg. Today, they handle IT for a fleet of 36 vessels in a diverisfied, worldwide context, and are open to share their experience.

10.30am Patric Desanti, Project Manager Maintenance Management Systems, Chemikalien Seetransport GmbH
Report from a recent fleetwide IT and communications upgrade
- Why update the shipboard IT network?
- Improving social welfare for seafarers
- Increasing dataflow and system complexity
- Mastering a rollout for a fleet of 40 ships
- Working with the oil majors - from provider to partner
- Using IT to help meet oil major requirements



Patric Desanti is project manager, maintenance management systems, with Chemikalien Seetransport, a leading tanker owner and manager in Germany with 40 tankers, and subsidaries in Houston, Cyprus, Singapore and Manila. He is currently implementing a maintenance, purchase and quality management system, to meet requirements of oil major customer. He was previously a project leader at chemical plant maintenance company Voith Ermo, managing major revamp projects, implementing the oil major HSQE requirements on the project organisation and planning. Before that he was involved in maintenance planning and co-ordination for a TOTAL refinery in Leuna, including a Eur 100m refinery "dry dock".

11.00 BREAK

Coffee break sponsor
ABS NS

11.30 Marco Vatteroni, SpecTec Group ILS manager, Shipdex author and technical manager -
The Shipdex Protocol: a customer perspective
The Shipdex protocol is a new open data standard for maritime technical documentation, which will potentially enable shipboard technical documentation to be supplied from the shipyard, and carried onboard the vessel, electronically



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 GmbH .
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).

AVEVA claims to be the world's leading engineering IT software provider to the plant, power and marine industries. It acquired shipbuilding software company Tribon in 2004. It offers a service to create 3D images of equipment (similar to CAD drawings) by scanning the equipment using a laser - with no direct measurements, or original construction documents, required. It is used by many of the world's major shipyards.

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