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Competing on quality in the shipping industry Mr Lyras is Advisor to the board especially on marine matters for Ulysses Systems: Ulysses System is a marine Software Company based in the UK. Ulysses builds shipping software and has a number of clients such as: Eletson and BP.	153 KB	78 KB
The Eurasian Dream Incident – liability and implementing an effective SMS How easily can an incident be blamed on managerial oversight? The fire that spread on the ‘Eurasian Dream’ at the port of Fujairah (see Lloyd’s List article “Eurasian Dream ISM Code Warning,” May 22nd, 2002) led to a total loss of the vessel and its cargo. The investigations that followed led to the conclusions that the vessel’s crew was inadequately updated on issues of safety and emergency response.	111 KB	74 KB
Can Computerising your business be simple? This paper is about simplifying the perceived complications by comparing the process to other much more complicated and risky technical decisions a shipping company customarily makes and yet succeeds.	120 KB	77 KB
WHO DEALS WITH A DEFECTIVE MAST RISER SHUTOFF VALVE? An example of how enhanced information flow through efficient document management can assist in avoiding omissions.	169 KB	33 KB
Portals in shipping today The problem with Portals in shipping today is that they have to achieve immense expertise in content management, marketing, service provision plus outstanding standards in software design and implementation all at the same time, or so they assume.	87KB	72KB
Measuring and Monitoring the Effectiveness of ISM Code Compliance Much effort is needed with statistical analysis to provide us with indications of what to do, whereas our own intuitive understanding as ship managers provides far quicker enactment of positive change. In other words, in shipping we can easily see where we need to improve so that there is no need for statistical analysis yet. Also, implementing the solutions to known safety and efficiency shortcomings is very time consuming, so by the time we implement the management changes, more statistics will be available. So, statistical analysis should come after you have identified all likely problem areas and made all possible efforts to eliminate them ...	116KB	90KB
Managing ISM Compliance A few years ago we attended meetings at IMO when the International Safety Management Code and its Guidelines were being drafted. That experience gave us an early warning about the future expectations from the industry. Whereas prior to ISM we already had to contend with controlled manuals and procedures these earlier experiences addressed much narrower areas of operations ...	104KB	81KB
Making Knowledge Management Work Many companies outside shipping use document management systems to provide some degree of uniform process and management of information. The Task Assistant, in offering role-related and task-related indexing, offers the following conceptual advantages over conventional document management systems.	95KB	86KB
ISM – safety or confusion? The International Safety Management Code (ISM) now demands that all activities in shipping that in any way involve safety and the prevention of pollution, whether they be on board ship or ashore, are documented and are observed through procedures that can be readily checked. Every relevant communication and record has to be documented and filed in such a way they can be easily traced. It is demanding legislation.	100KB	74KB
ISM demands better maintenance The International Safety Management (ISM) Code has brought auditing to maintenance planning and to risk assessment of machinery. This has been the easy part. The difficult part is how to improve maintenance and reliability, which presumably is what the Code is all about.	338KB	839KB
How to incorporate Risk Assessment In the last decade, the shipping industry has seen the introduction of further and significant international legislation addressing maritime safety and pollution prevention. The most important of these new regulations are: the ISM Code, the STCW 95, OPA 90 and GMDSS. The new regulations have been led to a large extent by technical thinking, almost to the exclusion of the commercial realities that govern the industry ...	93KB	75KB
Disseminating Corporate Memory To obtain meaningful improvements in procedures as a result of corporate experience, the distribution of corporate experience must be such that, before each critical operation, the relevant operator is warned and advised to a degree sufficient to convince him to take into consideration the corporate experience when performing the critical operation.	91KB	72KB
The Development of an Enterprise System for Ship Management in Accordance with the ISM Code This paper charts the development of an innovative information system designed to support the information needs of management and operational personnel of shipping companies, with particular reference to enabling and maintaining compliance with the International Safety Management (ISM) code.	410KB	322KB
Critical Issues of Computerisation for Ship Operators Will computerisation make shipping companies significantly more profitable? The answer is probably not. Actually, it is a question of proportion. If your income as a shipping company is highly connected to the efficiency of your procedures maybe you can derive considerable improvement from well-conceived computerisation.	256KB	125KB
Business to Business eCommerce Trends in Shipping There is at present a large movement towards the preparation for the use of the Internet for maritime commerce. A number of new companies are emerging in the maritime field of Business-to-Business e-commerce, which are mainly built up from consortia of maritime companies such as owners, managers, financiers etc.	108KB	81KB

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