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Shipping / Newsletter 34

Dear Member,

PLEASE ENSURE THIS MEMO IS WIDELY DISTRIBUTED WITHIN YOUR

INSTITUTION

1 Building the Membership

It is through our collective efforts that we will develop GlobalMET into a strong voice for MET.

Our self-funded network currently has 90 Members (ie MET providers) in 31 countries, 8

Associate Members (ie interested parties) in 6 countries and 14 Individual Members in 9

countries. If we were twice as big - and we should be! - we could do so much more in

influencing the development of MET. There is certainly a need. Please assist recruitment of new

members, particularly now that we are coming to the end of the current financial year.

Copies of the recruitment letter and of the application form currently being distributed to

potential members are attached. Kindly help by forwarding or passing to any potential member.

2 Videotel Whitepaper

In the latest Whitepaper from Videotel, Professor Jon Wonham introduces some of the issues we

tackle when designing learning programmes about environmental protection. Videotel has a

comprehensive suite of programmes that focus on this vital aspect of maritime

operations. Please go to:

http://videotel.com/news/white_papers/protection_of_marine_environment/

3 WMU, DNV GL Introduce Executive Maritime PGD

Posted on Jun 3rd, 2014

Tor Egil Svensen, CEO, Maritime, DNV GL and Acting WMU President Neil Bellefontaine

announce the new Executive Maritime Management PGD at Posidonia

Managers in today’s extremely competitive maritime industry need to cope with the current

technical, regulatory and commercial developments.

They must also be able to anticipate future developments and react in advance. It is essential that

they have up-to-date skills and comprehensive knowledge, if they are to retain their competitive

edge.

The World Maritime University (WMU), founded by the International Maritime Organization

(IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, and the Maritime Academy of DNV GL, the

world’s largest ship and offshore classification society, have joined forces to offer an innovative

new Postgraduate Diploma.

This unique Postgraduate Diploma is designed to provide a boot camp for managers.

Drawing on the strengths and expertise of both partners, it covers the most important current

topics in the maritime industry, taking a blended-learning approach to operational, commercial

and technical issues.

The Diploma will be offered in 2015 as an open-enrolment classroom-based learning program in

selected worldwide DNV GL Maritime Academies.

It will also be followed by distance-learning using the latest e-education systems, which allows

maximum flexibility to individual participants.

4 Future Shipping - SAFER, SMARTER, GREENER

DNV GL publishes The Future of Shipping' - A Broader View

The purpose of this report is to look into the future of shipping and preview the technologies,

systems and practices that DNV GL believe will play a role in achieving a worthwhile ambition:

to create a truly sustainable shipping industry by 2050.

As DNV GL turns 150, we are exploring six ‘themes for the future’ – areas where we can

leverage our history and expertise to translate our vision into impact. We selected these themes

as part of our efforts to take a broader view of the relationship between technology, business and

society. On these pages you will ind short introductions to each theme. To find out more, join us

at: dnvgl.com.' This is a significant 116 page document. In the section on Safe Operations:

Due to public demand for improved safety, regulatory pressure, and the application of new

technologies, developments in safe operations are likely to accelerate rapidly in the next four

decades. By 2020, owners and managers will increasingly adopt a more proactive and

preventative approach to safety, implement systems to facilitate learning from mistakes and have

a better understanding of what issues affect safety barriers.

Advances in the science of human resource development will enable the industry to have access

to a more skilled workforce. The workforce will likely include more women, have lower

turnover of personnel, and improved quality of leadership – both at sea and on land. Attention

will shift from individual mistakes to organisational issues, which will help companies devote

more resources to improving organisational systems that better support safety.

As new technologies and advanced risk methodologies are applied, a safety culture will be seen

as a critical indicator of safety performance. Owners and managers will take a more

comprehensive approach to risk management, working to prevent both individual and major

accidents. By 2030 user-centric bridge control systems will be the industry standard, and bridge

teams will beneit from improved communication between personnel of various ranks on the

bridge. The IMO is also likely to require that all maritime nations report accidents and near

misses and issue recommendations to improve learning. At the same time, sea trafic control

systems in some ports will migrate from just tracking vessels to offering routing advice.

In 2050, the application of innovative risk management models will result in a new, industry-

wide safety mindset that will combine both strategic and operational issues to improve

performance. Regulators will put in place rules requiring the industry to be more transparent, so

that owners and managers will share critical data on accidents and near misses, allowing the

industry to develop best practices. Sea trafic control systems will become more sophisticated to

include vectoring, speed allocation and data collection, and have the authority to intervene if a

vessel does not comply with recommended routes.

Unlike other pathways towards sustainable shipping described in this report, safe operations will

not be driven, or achievable, by the introduction of new technologies. In fact, the introduction of

new technologies can represent a risk to safety by increasing systems complexity. Rather, safety

at sea can only be achieved by gaining a better understanding of human behaviour, and how

people interact with technology, systems and each other in groups, both large and small.

5 Newsletter 34

The GlobalMET Newsletter for June is attached. May you enjoy reading it and please distribute

widely.

It was again a pleasure to receive interesting, constructive articles from people involved in the

network and we are very grateful. We will of course be pleased to receive more articles for

consideration for the next newsletter, by end-June please.

Kind regards

Rod

Executive Secretary

GlobalMET Limited

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Global Maritime Education and Training Association GlobalMET Limited: An Australian not-for-profit company - ACN 103 233 754 - established in 1996

Chair: New Zealand Maritime School 2 Commerce St PB 92068 Auckland New Zealand ExecSec: Rod Short P O Box 307 Waikanae Kapiti Coast 5250 New Zealand rod.short3@gmail.com

Secretariat: Core Competency Training & Services 1070 10F Tower B1 Spaze iTech Park Gurgaon 122002 India Tel 91 124 45525 59 secretariat@globalmet.org www.globalmet.org

The Global MET Network with NGO Observer Status at IMO

Participate in Developing Effective MET

Dear MET Provider

There is serious need to raise the profile of MET and to strengthen the voice for MET providers at IMO and other international fora. More needs to be done to assure delivery of quality MET essential to assisting the global shipping industry and other maritime sectors achieve efficiency, safety, cleanliness and security. Careers at sea need to be more attractive. To help us in working to achieve these goals we need your participation in our global network.

Below are just a few of the ongoing and new activities agreed by GlobalMET’s international Board of Directors at their April meeting at the Malaysian Maritime Academy:

1. Ongoing input to IMO through participation in IMO HTW meetings, with submission of an expression of interest in assisting IMO with the writing of a new model course on Leadership and Management for management level seafarers. Development of a concept as to how GlobalMET could assist IMO with mandatory auditing to commence in 2016; with respect to STCW provisions.

2. Ongoing liaison with the Asian Development Bank with respect to formulation of the concept document for the proposed project Human Resource Development in the Maritime Sector in Asia and the Pacific.

3. Review of the Structured Shipboard Training Program Books project with a view to increased use.

4. Implementation of the phased program Bridging the Gaps Between STCW Standards and Course Delivery in the Philippines, to be concluded in late November.

5. Formation of a strategic planning working group to review and recommend future development as a financially sound professional body, including a succession plan for the Executive Secretary’s position.

6. Further liaison with the three littoral states with a view to development of an information chart and possibly other awareness raising materials to assist the Cooperative Mechanism on Safety of Navigation and Environmental Protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.

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7. As a follow-on to the highly successful conference in Kuala Lumpur in April, further collaboration with the Malaysian Maritime Academy on the organization of a two-day workshop in Malaysia in September/October.

8. GlobalMET meetings and a conference or seminar to be held in Manila in conjunction with the 15th Asia Pacific Manning & Training Conference in late November.

9. The web portal to be further amended to ensure improved gathering and prompt posting of items of interest; the portal to be more attractive and usable as a major MET learning resource centre.

10. Review of overall design of the GlobalMET Newsletter with a view to introducing changes with the January 2015 issue.

11. Consideration of establishing a GlobalMET Facebook page to publicise the network and generate debate on MET matters.

These initiatives by a self-funded, global network formed by the MET providers themselves is for a significant program of activity, essential to addressing much needed development of MET. By acting collectively with a common ‘voice’, we the MET providers, can influence development, to the benefit of all participants in the shipping industry and the industry overall. Your institution will benefit through participation in this major MET initiative. GlobalMET will benefit through having you involved.

Please find an application form attached – and we would of course be pleased to respond to any enquiries.

Yours sincerely

RodShort

Executive Secretary 01 June 2014

Global Maritime Education and Training Association GlobalMET Limited: An Australian not-for-profit company - ACN 103 233 754 – established in 1996

Chair: New Zealand Maritime School 2 Commerce St PB 92068 Auckland New Zealand ExecSec: Rod Short P O Box 307 Waikanae Kapiti Coast 5250 New Zealand rod.short3@gmail.com

Secretariat: Core Competency Training & Services 1070 10F Tower B1 Spaze iTech Park Gurgaon 122002 India Tel 91 124 45525 59 secretariat@globalmet.org www.globalmet.org

The Global MET Network with NGO Observer Status at IMO

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP

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