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STAZIONE MARITTIMA TRIESTE 15-17 MAY 1990

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY 1: Tuesday 15 May 09.00 EXHIBITION OPENS 14.00 CONFERENCE OPENS

Session 1: Markets and Trades

RoRo Markets of the North Sea/Intra

Europe/Intra Mediterranean

M Garratt, MDS Transmodal, Chester, England

The Development of RoRo in the West

African Trades and its future prospects

S M Gay, Managing Director, African RoRo Ltd and Director, OT Africa Line, London

Mediterranean Cabotage after 1992

G Migliorino, Direttore Centrale Finmare,

Genoa (Finmare operating companies include Lloyd

Triestino, Italia, Adriatica, Tirrenia and

Sidermar)

New Trends in the fast developing Baltic

RoRo Market

K Levander, Vice President, Research and

Development, Masa-Yards, Finland

Australia - new RoRo Age Dawning

A R Clarke, Director, Thompson Clarke

Shipping, Port Melbourne

New ships for the Brazil-Europe Trade

R Klien, Director, Transroll Navegacao SA, Rio de Janeiro

Developments in vehicle transportation.

Integrated services - the solution for the future?

C Olsson, Executive Vice President Marketing,

Wallenius Lines, Stockholm

OFFICIAL WELCOME RECEPTION HELD

IN THE FIERA DI TRIESTE

DAY 2: Wednesday 16 May

Session 2: The Ports Build for

Tomorrow (parallel with Session 4)

Cost Effective Design of Terminals for the import of RoRo Forest Products - by cassette and in bulk

N Nixon, Chairman and G Bell, Director, Nigel

Nixon & Partners, London

RoRo Interface for the 21st Century (with case studies from Belfast, Poole and

Sheerness new RoRo terminals)

Particular reference will be made to high capacity freight throughputs, improvements in passenger access and rapid vessel turnaround.

R S Cork and P W Wright, Associates Port

Division, Posford Duvivier, Peterborough,

England

Session 3: The Trieste Connection (parallel with Session 4)

Panel Session Speakers:

Prof. F A Querci, President of the Superior

Council, Ministry of Merchant Marine, Rome

R Prioglio, Chairman, Forwarding Agents

Association, Port of Trieste

E Bevilacqua, President, Port of Monfalcone

G Bravo, President, Port of Nogaro

G Di Benedetto, Regional Minister for Transport and Ports of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

L Rovelli, Director General, Port of Trieste

Session 4: Ship Design (parallel with Sessions 2 and 3)

New passenger trailer ferry concepts to meet increasing transport and safety requirements

Three new ferry concepts will be described: cruise ferry for a Baltic route - two newbuildings for two different Channel routes

M Kanerva, Development Director, Oy Elomatic

Group Ltd, Turku

Seahorse Shipping follow their advanced design of inland RoRo shuttles for Stora with more innovative thinking

S-A Svensson, Naval Architect, Seahorse

Shipping Lines AB, Gothenburg

Transfennica - looks ahead with new ships and handling for forest products

T Grandell, Technical Group, Transfennica

Corporation, Helsinki

Converting to the Market

K J Taylor, Marine Services Manager,

MacGregor-Navire (GBR) Ltd, UK

New smaller RoRo's on more frequent service facilitate Just-In-Time Distribution

B Soderholm, Executive Vice-President, Bore

Line AB, Helsinki

Session 5: RoRo Survivability (parallel with Session 6)

Compliance with the new IMO subdivision and stability requirements for RoRo and other dry cargo ships

C M Magill, Principal Surveyor, Statutory

Computational Services Group, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London

The "Stab-90 Rules" influence on RoRo

Newbuildings and Conversions

J Dalgaard, N Fisker-Andersen and E Schilder,

Knud E Hansen, Copenhagen

RoRo Safety - a need for a total approach

T-C Mathiesen, Senior Executive Vice President,

Det norske Veritas Classification A/S, Norway

Enhancing the stability/survivability of

RoRo vessels

J G Brown, Seaform Design, Isle of Man, UK

Session 6: RoRo Stevedoring and

Swapbodies (parallel with Session 5)

Securing for Rolltrailers and Rolux - new top lashings the answer

B Wiking, Wiking Leasing AB, Gothenburg

New IMO Code of Safe Practice for stowage and securing cargo, cargo units and vehicles (includes guidelines for securing arrangements for road vehicles on RoRo ships)

Captain S Felding, Senior Technical Officer,

Cargoes Section, International Maritime

Organization

The advantages of swapbodies vis-a-vis trailers for international traffic

Speaker to be announced, Transfesa, Spain

More swapbody papers to be announced for this session (Authors should contact the Secretariat)

WEDNESDAY EVENING: GALA DINNER

DAY 3: Thursday 17 May

Session 7: RoRo Operational Safety (parallel with Session 9)

The Carriage of Dangerous Goods on Roll- on/Roll-off ships (revision of Section 17) in the 1990 edition of the IMDG Code

Captain S Felding, Senior Technical Officer,

Cargoes Section, International Maritime

Organization

Dangerous Goods at Sea (a recently updated video from Videotel Marine showing handling of dangerous goods as general cargo/containers/ portable tanks including response to incidents at sea)

Is the Baltic Sea Memorandum of

Understanding a suitable instrument for the transportation of hazardous cargoes in other protected areas?

H Busch, Dangerous Goods Section, Federal

Ministry of Transport, Bonn

During the Coffee Break a new anti- pollution video from Videotel will be shown:

MARPOL Annex 5 Marine Litter

Handling of RoRo ships and ferries in ports - single screw/twin screw

U Nienhuis, MARIN, Wageningen, Netherlands

Fire Safety on RoRo Ships and Passenger

Car Ferries

Speaker to be confirmed

Session 8: Environmental Issues of

RoRo Ferry Operations (parallel with Session 9)

Ecological Aspects of Ferry Operation

A Flising, Stena Marine Management HB,

Gothenburg

Session 9: Through Transport - New

Markets and New Links (parallel with Sessions 7 and 8)

North-South Through Transport - transit problems overshadow 1992

Speaker to be announced 1992 and Eastwards

N R S Baker, Underwriter, Through Transport

Club, (members include Ravasped, Masped,

Hungarocargo and Sovtransavto)

The paper will cover the widespread effects of the removal of barriers not only in the EC but also in Eastern Europe.

Eurotunnel - the new link for road and rail freight

J Chapman, Freight Marketing Development

Manager, Eurotunnel, London

Trade Structure and Network Development in UK/Europe Unit Routes

S Gilman, Emeritus Professor, Maritime

Consultant, Liverpool 12.45 CONFERENCE CLOSE

During the afternoon of Thursday 17 May there will be an opportunity for interested delegates to join a conducted tour of the Port of Trieste. 16.30 EXHIBITION CLOSE

The Organisers reserve the right to amend this programme -REGISTRATION-

We wish to make Conference Registration(s) for delegate(s) and enclose our cheque for made payable to BML Business Meetings Ltd.

Conference fee of £390 (Lire 800000) per person includes conference documentation, lunches, coffee breaks and invitations to the Welcome Reception and the

Gala Dinner hosted by the Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the City of Trieste.

Delegates who will attend (please print):

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