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NEWS
CERTIFIED TRAINING
Modular Career
Planning
The maritime industry needs qualified staff
– now more than ever! In times of great
demand, vocational education and advanced
training are of inestimable value.
Every year, the Vocational Education and
Training Centre – Port of Hamburg (FZH)
offers over 480 courses and seminars on
vocational education and advanced training
for the port, transportation and maritime
industries. The comprehensive curriculum
permits the flexible planning of careers in
shipping, port and logistic companies. The
lecturers at the FZH are all skilled experts
with practical experience.
The quality management system of the FZH
has been certified according to ISO
9001:2000 by Germanischer Lloyd Certification.
In addition, a number of the maritime
courses are approved by Germanischer
Lloyd, Marine Management Systems Certification
Department, as complying with
international maritime standards (STCW
95). What is more, the “Modular Concept for
Logistics” newly introduced by the FZH is
the first holistic system of its kind to have
been certified by Germanischer Lloyd . The
benefit of this system lies in its great versatility.
Through the diverse combination possibilities
offered by the separate modules,
advanced training courses in the field of port
logistics can be planned and conducted in a
very flexible and individually coordinated
manner.
SINGAPORE
GL Surveyor Turns IACS Auditor
After almost 28 years with Germanischer Lloyd, Mr Tin Seh
Low, Senior Lead Surveyor and Lead Quality Representative
said “goodbye” to his customers and colleagues. Rather than
retiring, Mr Low accepted an offer by the International
Association of Classification Societies (IACS) to take over a
vacant position as quality auditor. On the farewell dinner in
Singapore Hergen Thielemann, Head of Division East Asia
lauded their long, fruitful, and rewarding collaboration. He
stated: “It is a high commendation for Germanischer Lloyd
that IACS chose one of GL’s quality representatives to fill an
open position. This underlines the high qualifications, technical
expertise and excellent abilities of GL’s surveyors.” T S
Low joined Germanischer Lloyd in 1978 after a First Class
Certificate of Competency for Marine Engineers at the
Singapore Polytechnic and the Poplar Technical College in
London and several years of work experience. Based in
Singapore Mr. Low and his colleagues developed the then GL
Station into a Division Office. He became ISM Auditor in 1996,
was named Senior Surveyor and Quality Manager in 1999 and
8 nonstop 3/2006
Signing the contract: Jatinderpal Singh Grewal, Station Manager Fremantle and Derek Gill,
Design Manager at Austal (standing from left to right) and Georgios Spiliotis, Area Manager
Australia / New Zealand, James Bennett, Marketing and Technical Manager at Austal and
Dr.-Ing. Dieter Krüger, Head of Special Craft at GL
AUSTAL
New order from Turkey
Istanbul Deniz Otobusleri (IDO) has once again chosen the Australian shipyard
AUSTAL to design and build two high speed vessels for their services across the
Marmara sea between Yenikapi (Istanbul) and Mudanya (Bursa). IDO founded
in 1987 by the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul is expecting the delivery
of two 88 meters long high speed catamarans in 2007 to add to their fleet of some
27 vessels. Each catamaran has a capacity of 1,200 passengers and 225 cars. The
main engines accelerate the catamarans to an average speed of 36 knots utilizing
only 90% of its maximum power. Germanischer Lloyd will class the newbuildings
as part of the cooperation agreement with the Henderson-based AUSTAL
Group been extended once again. Since 1995 AUSTAL, the world leader in the
design and construction of customised aluminium vessels, and Germanischer
Lloyd have concluded a number of innovative high-speed passenger ships such
as the Fred Olsen SA owned 127-metre trimaran “Benchijigua Express” serving
the Canary Islands. The high speed craft is the world’s longest diesel-powered
fast ferry, combining the high comfort of a mono hull with the low resistance,
excellent stability and carrying capacity of catamarans. As part of the agreement,
Germanischer Lloyd provides classificatory handling, technical advisory
services and accompanying analyses of strength, dynamics and hydrodynamics
as well as of noise and vibration behaviour for various projects of the yard.
Further information: Georgios Spiliotis, Area Manager Australia/New Zealand, Phone: +61 2 92331119,
georgios.spiliotis@gl-group.com
Fook Seng Chan, Area Manager ASEAN/South Asia, Tin Seh Low, Senior
Lead Surveyor and Hergen Thielemann, Director Division East Asia at
the farewell dinner.
achieved the title Senior Lead Surveyor in 2003. In the same
year Mr Low took over the newly founded GL Station in
Jiangying, China and became Lead Quality Representative for
the entire Division when the Division Office moved to
Shanghai. Successor in the task of Lead Quality Representative
for the Division East Asia will be Mr Biao Cao.
For further information: Biao Cao, Representative Division East Asia, Mobile: +86 1390
1747494, biao.cao@gl-group.com