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Leading the way; making a difference Tanker Vetting Issues INTERTANKO and Tanker Vetting Issues Latin American Panel Meeting – 6 November 2013 – Capt. Michael Wilson, Chairman - INTERTANKO Vetting Committee President, Laurin Maritime (America) Inc.

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Tanker Vetting Issues

INTERTANKO and Tanker Vetting IssuesLatin American Panel Meeting

– 6 November 2013 –

Capt. Michael Wilson, Chairman - INTERTANKO Vetting Committee

President, Laurin Maritime (America) Inc.

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221 members with c.3,100 tankers totalling c.271 m dwt.

Membership by type of tanker

Chemical, 371

Chemical, Oil 770

Crude; 1177

Gas, 133

Other

Product, 589

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The Vetting Committee

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- Vetting -“Your Ticket to Trade”

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Issues faced by the industry

• Over-Inspection of Ships – Number & Time• No faith in the SIRE system – by their own members.• Increasing costs of ship-inspections• Availability of inspectors• Cancellation of inspections• Officer Matrix Requirements

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The Costs!

• Increasing for both CDI and SIRE

• Actual costs increasing and also due to increased number of inspections.

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A Review of the Cost of Inspections – SIRE and CDI

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What the Vetting Committee does…• Conditions of Class – working with Class Societies and Oil Majors –

Increase awareness and transparency.• Education - Vetting inspection guidance for the seafarer’s (end 2013)• Guidance to members – The INTERTANKO Vetting Guide – 10th Ed.• Terminal Vetting Database – Let’s Rate the Terminals!• Vetting and Port State Control Inspector Feedback Forms.• Benchmarking Databases.• Detention statistics – Monitoring the performance of different MoU’s

- Increasing transparency.• Officer’s Matrix – Harmonisation of the requirements is the key• Incident close-out – working with OCIMF to ensure increased

efficiency and timely closeouts.

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What the Vetting Committee does…• Regular meetings between SIRE Focus Group and INTERTANKO

– Increased sharing of statistics– Increased transparency between two organisations– Increased input to guidance on SIRE Questions

• Work with CDI – Feedback on costs– Assistance to membership with inspection matters.

• Work with Port State control– Participation on Inspector training programmes.– Feedback on inspector behaviour

• Guidance and assistance to members on individual vetting issues.• Seminars – two per year for members and one every two years for

seafarers

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