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InterManager, the trade
association for in-house and third party ship
managers, has formed four new working committees
to tackle issues of significant importance to
today's shipping industry.
Headed up by key players in the industry, the
Manning and Training; IMO-EU; Communications;
and New Products Committees are part of a
forward thinking initiative to strengthen
InterManager's role in bettering the industry
and the way today's ships are managed and
operated.
InterManager’s Members are directly affected by
the growing shortage of competent seafarers and
their improper training. has become so concerned
about the issues affecting the training and
supply of competent seafarers that it has
created the Its Executive Committee has
therefore decided to create a new Manning and
Training Committee to review the issues facing
the industry and to and propose a tangible
action plan. This will work to solve both the
short and long-term problems currently being
faced by the industry. The final output is
expected to be a series of common actions
undertaken by members of InterManager,
specifically geared to address the short and
long term problems of the sector either for the
betterment of its members only, or for the
betterment of the shipmanagement and shipowning
world. A Committee Chairman is expected to be
nominated by June 18th.
It will work alongside the newly established The
IMO-EU Committee which will be is charged with
representing the interests of the InterManager
membership at these regulatory bodies. This
special Committee will assume InterManager's NGO
role at the IMO and will work to forge closer
links with the European Commission.
Bob Bishop, Managing Director of the
Shipmanagement Division of V.Ships, has been
appointed Chairman of the IMO-EU Committee and
he has set up three sub-committees – Technical,
Marine, Manning & Training – to review work in
these areas at the IMO. .
A Communications Committee, to be headed up by
Adonis Violaris, Manager of Communications, PR
and Human Resources, Hanseatic Shipping Company
Ltd, will concentrate on IT and Press issues. It
will develop a new InterManager website and use
electronic data processing to further benefit
InterManager members. It will also ensure that
all the information of potential interest to
managers is adequately distributed to
InterManager Members.
This will compliment the work of an additional
New Products Sub-Committee, headed up by George
Hoyt, President of Newslink Services Ltd, which
will work to define new products intended to
improve the services available to InterManager
members. and to generate additional revenue for
the association. In particular, InterManager has
agreed to play a stronger role in a better
understanding of the shipping industry by
contributing to a number of academic studies
that will help to shed light on the sector and
make it more transparent.
Working groups will be formed within the four
Committees, as and when necessary, and their
findings will be regularly presented to the
Membership and their final recommendations will
be submitted to their mother Committees and
ultimately pushed forward to the InterManager’s
Executive Committee. for approval at the AGM.
Specific decisions affecting all members will be
submitted, if any, to all Members of
InterManager at the subsequent AGM.
In a further development, InterManager has also
agreed to play a stronger role in a better
understanding of the shipping industry by
contributing to a number of academic studies
that will help to shed light on the sector and
make it more transparent. These studies will
cover issues of concern to InterManager and its
members such as crewing issues and fleet
development.
Guy Morel, General Secretary of InterManager,
said: "Ship managers have always had a keen
sense of their essential role as providers of
new ideas and promoters of industry-led
initiatives. It is this sense of Corporate
Social Responsibility which is today pushing us
to gather our resources and come up with common
solutions to common problems. I hope that the
Committees that we have now created will
contribute to the improvement of our shipping
world.”
Membership of InterManager continues to grow
with as many as nine new full and associate
members joining up and as many as 30 corporate
entities currently considering the possibility
of taking up membership.. Today some 30 Managers
and managing owners, representing over 2,500
ships, is our members of the association.
Concurrently a large number of groups interested
in shipmanagement are joining as Associate
Members.
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