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Odfjell Quarterly EDITOR: Margrethe Gudbrandsen EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Karin Ryland Blom, Brit A. Bennett, Matt Duke, Geirmund Drivenes, Leif Gunnar Alvær, Henning Løseth, Siri Anne Mjåtvedt CORRESPONDENTS: HOUSTON: Rebecca Snyder PHILIPPINES: Jennifer Franco Deadline next issue: 19 August 2013 Design: Bruno Blanchard, Cox Graphic production: Bjarte Kvinge Tvedt, Cox Print: Scanner Grafisk AS Frontcover: Odfjell Terminals (Houston) Photo by: Steve Chenn Photo this page: Working in the Panama Canal Photo by: Francis Benitez Texts submitted to Quarterly may be subject to editorial adjustments. bgoquarterlysubscribers@odfjell.com Highlights Building muscles for terminal expansion 04 Going forward in Tianjin 06 Odfjell Terminals (Charleston): - Slowly getting there 07 Landmarks Bow Pioneer: Big and beautiful 08 Bow Nangang: - A new member of the Odfjell fleet 09 Portrait The world record collector 12 QHSE Safety culture survey and our way forward 13 Implementing Supplyer Conduct Principles 14 CONTENTS Briefings Odfjell´s new ‘eco-design’ tankers 15 From ship to shore trainee programme 16 Graduation day at Odfjell Bacalod 17 Establishing ICT Ship Support Helpdesk in Manila 18 My final voyage as a cadet in Odfjell 20 Sea and shore Odfjell in the camera lense 22 Crew and family gathering in Cebu 2013 24 Odfjell on the run! 25 Customer AFPM Meeting in San Antonio, Texas 26 Dan Odfjell at 75 27 Personnel 28-29 Fleet and terminals 30-31 Offices and addresses 32
ODFJELL QUARTERLY magazine Dear Colleagues, Jan A. Hammer, President/CEO Odfjell SE In the last issue of Quarterly I expressed a certain degree of optimism, mainly because we seemed to be on a track for improved QHSE performance, but also due to the production of somewhat better financial results. I am pleased now as we are approaching the half year mark, to see that we seem to remain on the same positive course. It is especially encouraging that our chemical tanker earnings have continued on a rising path, in contrast to last year when second quarter saw a considerable drop of our time charter results. This does not come only as a result of better market conditions, but primarily because of improved operational performance and our ability to better utilize our fleet as a whole. We have also had some help from slightly lower bunker prices. I am aware and certainly appreciate your hard work and contributions in this respect. We also seem to be doing better in terms of QHSE. Our KPIs continue to show fewer and less serious incidents and nonconformances; which needless to say, also is encouraging. This being based on statistics, the reality is that we still have a long way to go as far as QHSE is concerned, especially when it comes to the Safety aspects. As you know, we launched a safety culture survey concerning our chemical tanker activities earlier this year. The results were somewhat disappointing and less favourable than expected when seen in comparison to other shipping companies. The main findings are presented and commented in this issue of Quarterly. The short version however, is that we still have a job to do in terms of bringing our QHSE performance and Safety Culture in particular, to where it should be. The subject has in fact been the main issue at our annual and recent strategy update meetings among senior management and the Board of Directors. As a result of these meetings we are about to develop an improvement plan including a list of both small and big initiatives. The only thing certain in this respect is that you will be affected in the years to come. Our ambition namely, is very clear: we are going to bring our organisation from being essentially reactive to become proactive in terms of QHSE matters, in line with the Hearts & Mind Safety Ladder (presented in last issue of Quarterly). Most important in this context is that each and every one of us, including myself of course, has to become more conscious about our own behaviour, that being what we say and do. The question I want you to ask yourself is whether you are contributing to an improved QHSE performance? If your answer is ‘no’ or you do not know, I want you to start thinking about how you can contribute and help making us meet our ambitions. After all a safety culture is the sum of our combined individual competence, attitude and behaviour. From a business perspective, the last couple of months have been eventful – and very busy for that reason. We have discontinued our joint venture in Dubai, the NOCT pool, which we have been running since 2009 together with NCC, and successfully re-established our own Odfjell office in this growing and important city. We have taken delivery of two new ships, Bow Nangang and Bow Pioneer, the latter actually the biggest fully IMO II chemical tanker ever built – and we have acquired one vessel in the second hand market, Bow Engineer, and sold the last unit in our KSEC series, Bow Cheetah for recycling. But most importantly, at least from a monetary and strategic point of view, has been the finalization and closing of the transaction for expansion of our joint venture with Lindsay Goldberg. It has been a long and extensive process, involving a lot of hard work including late evenings for those of you most heavily involved. We are happy therefore for having achieved a successful outcome. Now having Lindsay Goldberg as our global partner, we have together set the stage for further developing Odfjell Terminals to a world class and leading chemical storage and terminal company. I am looking forward to the continuation. This being the first half of 2013 in a nutshell, many of you are in need of a well-deserved break before starting on the follow-up and many new tasks and challenges ahead of us. I most certainly therefore, wish you all a nice and peaceful summer! NR.02/ 13 3 08 12 18 22 odfjell quarterly magazine
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