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Oslo 2012

Opening Conference

IMSF programme 2012

 

Session One - MARINE INSURANCE AND THE PORT OF OSLO 

Helle Hammer - Cefor - The Role of a Lead Marine Insurance Market in the Maritime Cluster

Astrid Seltmann - Cefor - Marine Claims Trends in the Light of an Increasing Exposure to Major Single Loss Events

Tommy Svendsen - Port of Oslo - Port of Oslo - Preparing for the future

 

Session Two - LINER SHIPPING AND INTERMODALITY

 

Frans Waals- Dynamar - Update on the Container Shipping Sector

Eva Perez - Fundacion Valenciaport - The Hinterland of Spanish Ports: Results of an Integrated Trade and Transport Database

Vidar Lund - Eurostat - Eurostat's Task Force on Intermodality: Main Results

Sonke Maatsch - ISL - Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics - Multimodal Transport and Modal Split

 

Session Three - BULK SHIPPING

 

Viktor Sinding-Larsen - Det Norske Veritas AS - Offshore Oil and Gas makets

Erik Ranheim - INTERTANKO - State of the Tanker Industry

Colin Cridland - Clarksons - Product Tanker Market - Changing Market

 

Session Four - ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

 

Haakon Lindstad - MARINTEK - Emission and Cost reductions in Shipping through Economy of scale and Speed Differentiations

Erik Nyhus - Det Norske Veritas AS - Future Environmental Regulations and their Impact on Shipping

Jan Schejbel Andreasen - MAN Diesel and Turbo SE - Ships propelled by MAN B&W Diesel engines and their visits to selected harbours in North America andEuropean ECA areas in 2011

Urszula Kowalczyk - Maritime Institute in Gdansk - Significance of port reception facilities ( MARPOL Convention, Annex 4) for maritime environmentprotection

Evelyne Namanda and Vesa-Peka Virkki - Wartsila - LNG as a marine fuel

 

 

Session Five - SHIPBUILDING, SHIP SCRAPPING AND SECURITY ISSUES

Niklas Bengtsson- IHS Fairplay, Maritime Research & Consultancy - The Coming Dramatic Fall in Shipbuilders Output - Or?

Pat Tye - E. A. Gibson Shipbrokers - Research - The Tanker of the Future

Foteini Kanellopoulou - Clarksons - Ship Scrapping - Market Pressures

Wally Mandryk - Lloyd's List Intelligence - The Threat of Somali Piracy to Trade and Shipping

Session Six- STATUS REPORTS

Vidar Lund - Eurostat - Ship Types & Sizes

John Dowden - UK Chamber of Shipping - IMSF steering committee report & closing remarks