OCEAN, OFFSHORE and ARCTIC ENGINEERING - Kivi Niria

Welcome Letters
Dr. ir. Bas Buchner
Local Organizing
Committee:
Dr. ir. Bas Buchner
(MARIN): Chair
Prof. dr. ir. René Huijsmans
(TU Delft)
Ir. Frank Lange
(Heerema Marine
Contractors)
Ir. Frank Sliggers
(KIVI NIRIA Offshore
Technology)
Dr.ir. Jaap Harm Westhuis
(SBM GustoMSC)
The OMAE 2011 team
of young engineers
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Welcome from the Conference Chair
I have the pleasure to welcome you to the City and
Port of Rotterdam! Rotterdam is best characterized
by its famous saying ‘Geen woorden maar daden’,
which says as much as ‘Actions speak louder than
words’. That is why Rotterdam was our first choice
as the OMAE 2011 location in the Netherlands: it’s
a port, not a resort! This is where this important
offshore conference, with its ideal mix of people
from industry and academia, belongs. With a record
number of more than 800 reviewed papers, OMAE
2011 in Rotterdam is an ideal forum for offshore
engineers, researchers, managers and students to
present their progress in research and innovative
technology. The opportunity to see real offshore
structures during the Rotterdam Offshore Boat Tour
makes it an even more unique event. The 30 th OMAE
in Rotterdam should therefore be ‘the Offshore
Experience’!
OMAE 2011 has been organized by KIVI
NIRIA (Royal Institute of Engineers) and a team of
volunteers from the Dutch offshore and shipbuilding
industry. The unique thing about this OMAE
conference is that it has been developed by a team of
25 young engineers, together with the regular Local
Organizing Committee. This team has organized
special events and has given the conference a
special flavor. This co-operation not only makes
the conference itself a wonderful event, but also
stimulates young engineers to be involved in research
and innovation.
OMAE 2011 is a ‘special product’ of the
broad offshore industry in the Netherlands with
contributions from Allseas, Biglift, Bluewater, Bosch
Rexroth, Boskalis, Dockwise, GustoMSC, Heerema
Marine Contractors, Huisman Equipment, IHC
Merwede, KeppelVerolme, MARIN, Shell, Smit, The
Offshore Partners and TU Delft. This has resulted in
the following highlights:
• An interesting Technical Opening Session entitled
‘Going Deep!’ that discusses the challenges of new
activities offshore: floating wind, deep water salvage
and deep-sea mining
• Three special Symposia for Dutch researchers who
gave important contributions to offshore research:
Jan Vugts, Jo Pinkster and Johan Wichers (in
addition to the ten regular Symposia on all topics
relevant in offshore engineering)
• The Rotterdam Offshore Boat Tour on Tuesday and
the special Banquet in the Maritime Museum on
Wednesday.
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee
and the rest of the OMAE 2011 team I wish you a
very good conference!
—Dr. ir. Bas Buchner
Conference Chair, OMAE 2011
President, MARIN (Maritime Research
Institute Netherlands)