November 2010

Press Clippings

Collated by ISIS Communications

Hellenic Shipping News (Online) 1 December 2010

TT Club congratulates winner of bulk port award Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 | 12:00 am | Port News

TT Club yesterday congratulated Port Waratah Coal Services (PECS), winners of the Best Specialist Bulk Port or Terminal Award, sponsored by TT Club, at the International Bulk Journal Awards, 2010.

Michael Harvey, Chairman of Port Waratah Coal Services accepted the award from Andrew Kemp, TT Club’s General Manager, Europe, who stated: “PWCS is the mainstay of the Hunter Valley Coal Chain and one of Australia’s most vital trade facilities. The judges recognised how, over the past decade, PWCS has committed AU$1.6 billion to coal loading infrastructure, resulting in capacity remaining significantly ahead of overall coal chain capacity. Congratulations to Port Waratah Coal Services.”

Guest of honour at the Awards was Mike Penning MP, the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport. Speaking at the ceremony at London’s Savoy Hotel on 15th November 2010, Mr Penning, who is UK Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead, formally welcomed a sell-out audience of leading executives from bulk cargo handling and shipping companies from all over the world, to maritime bulk’s “Night of the Year”.

The finalists for the Awards were selected by an independent panel of judges from around 100 individual category entries from 25 different countries.

Source: TT Club

Hong Kong Shipping Gazette (Online) 26 November 2010

FIATA awards 12th Young International Freight Forward of the Year THE International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA), has awarded its 12th Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award at its annual conference in Bangkok to 23-year old Philipp Kueffner. The award, sponsored since its inception by TT Club, was awarded to Mr Kueffner, a shipping and forwarding agent with Karl Gross Internationale Speditions GmbH based in Bremen, Germany with regional winners being Rion Henning, a South African, for Africa/Middle East; Claudia Ramirez, a Canadian, for the Americas and Ng Kah Yong, a Singaporean, for Asia/Pacific. "We hope that the international winners, who come to us for training, will return to their employers with a greater understanding of the nature of risk in the supply chain - and, the importance of managing it effectively," said TT Club European general manager Andrew Kemp at the ceremony, highlighting the breadth of candidates it wishes to attract from small customs agents to multinationals. The award offers the winners a chance to undertake practical and academic training, including a week based at the TT Club's regional centres in London, Hong Kong or New Jersey - or to attend the Insight into Transport Law and Insurance course in London and a week-long course at an IATA training centre. "All of the dissertations that we received this year were of an extremely high standard - which made the judging of them almost as complex as the subject itself," he said of the this year's challenge set to candidates of transporting two pieces of equipment for an experimental power station, firstly a 100 tonne crankshaft, by sea and then by road, and secondly a 45 tonne alternator which due to time constraints had to be moved by airfreight. The TT Club is the international transport and logistics industry's leading provider of insurance and related risk management services with a membership of 40,000 firms including ship operators, ports and terminals, road, rail and airfreight operators, logistics companies and container lessors.

Inland Ports (Pages 18-19) September – October 2010

Lloyd’s List Global Awards 2010 (Page 9) October 2010

Lloyd’s List Global Awards 2010 (Page 38) October 2010

Logistics Manager (Page 15) 1 November 2010

Nigerian Tribune (Online) 20 October 2010

Insurer laments rising number of port equipment failures

Written by Dele Aderibigbe Wednesday, 20 October 2010

The oil and gas terminal at the Onne Port, Rivers State.

A research study funded by mutual logistics insurer, the TT Club, into quayside crane safety, has emphasised the need for good maintenance of structural facilities, even as it highlighted major causes of equipment failure and accidents.

The study, which counselled on regular thorough checking of vessel equipment, particularly cranes, also noted that the rising number of major structural failures in port equipment in the last four years had become “disturbing”.

“This type of equipment failure can be very costly in terms of repairs and operational downtime and can result in serious accidents and injuries,” posited the mutual logistics insurer TT Club manager, which commissioned the research.

The club’s analysis of port and terminal incidents found that structural failure was the most costly accounting for more than half of incidents, while fire-related incidents took up 19 per cent of the total.

The club advised on the need for equipment to be thoroughly checked on a regular basis to keep accidents to a minimum, citing the International Labour Organisation’s standard for crane inspections, which calls for examinations to be conducted at least once every 12 months.

“It is essential for operators of ports and cargo-handling facilities to establish a regular sequence of maintenance and thorough examination of all the lifting appliances it utilises,” Laurence Jones, TT Club’s director of global risk assessment, said.

He added that he would only recommend that specialist inspection companies were used, such as Bureau Veritas, Lloyd’s Register, Liftech Consultants and World Crane Services.

The club’s investigation into quayside crane safety pinpointed two major causes of failure and accidents. Structural integrity covers crane collapses and other structural failures of which there have been 20 in the last four years.

The research found that there have been 71 fire-related incidents caused by fuel or hydraulic leaks over the same period — the second most costly cause.

Other causes of accidents include spreaders, grabs and the ropes, which are “the most used and abused items of equipment in a terminal”, and engine and gearbox failures, “which are often due to running out of oil or water.”

Port Strategy (Page 19) November 2010

Transport Weekly (Online) 25 November 2010

Wilhelmsen Ships Service wins IBJ Bulk Ships Agent Award

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has won the prestigious International Bulk Journal (IBJ) Bulk Ships Agent Award. The award was presented in recognition of the company’s innovation in revolutionising the way ships agency services are provided to the dry bulk industry. Wilhelmsen Ships Service has recently introduced the new Ships Agency Re-Defined concept to dry bulk customers of Ships Agency Service Agreements. This

unique concept streamlines and simplifies multiple port-call operations. Previously the ships agency business has been, and largely still is, highly fragmented, with no dominant players, and with different agents in every port, and different administrative systems. The IBJ Awards, dedicated exclusively to the maritime dry bulk industry, recognise achievements by individuals and companies improving and enhancing efficiency, safety and environment protection in this vital global market. Wilhelmsen Ships Service’s Service Agreement customers are each served by an experienced Global Agent working in the customer’s location and coordinating all the port calls for that customer. This gives customers the benefits of someone who speaks their language and works in the same time zone, as well as the benefits of predictable pricing. A central point of contact for order handling order handling and global coordination for marine products and technical services, come with defined deliverables and pre-agreed prices. Simon Hutt, Area Manager Wilhelmsen Ships Service Europe accepted the award from Nick West, Chief Executive Officer of Euroports, the sponsor of the award Category, He commented, “We are absolutely thrilled with this Award. It recognizes our efforts in shaping the maritime industry by creating and bringing to market innovative cost effective solutions to the challenges our customers are facing in this tough economic climate.” The award ceremony 2010 was held at The Savoy in London on Monday 15th November. In addition to ships agency services, Wilhelmsen Ships Service also supplies Unitor marine products, technical services and maritime logistics. Photo caption: Left to right - Nick West, Chief Executive Officer, Euroports (sponsor of the event), Simon Hutt, Area Manager Wilhelmsen Ships Service Europe, Ray Girvan, Editor International Bulk Journal