1. INTERTANKO Seminar 27 April 2010 Singapore Peter M. Swift

2. INTERTANKO Issues Update Council Agenda (6 May 2010, London) Administrative items Organisation Review Committee reports – Vetting/Smart Vetting Green House Gas emissions Commercial/operational issues Reports – IMO, EU, US, Piracy, Committees, Panels Next Meeting

3. Council – Administrative items Review of 2009 Joint Meeting of Round Table Executive Committees – Criminalisation and fair treatment of seafarers – Piracy – Greenhouse gases – shipping emissions – Shipping’s image & conveying messages effectively

4. Organisation Review INTERTANKO Work Plan –review of activities & issues against Strategic Objectives To develop and promote best practices To be a positive and proactive influence To profile and promote the tanker industry To provide key services. Purpose: To determine Scope of Activities and Priorities Review of Committees - Objectives, Activities, Issues

5. Council – Vetting/Smart Vetting Report from Vetting Committee –including Questions/Answers “Smart” Vetting / Multiplicity of inspections Conditions of Class

6. Commercial/operational issues Report from Worldscale Committee - including questions/answers Mercury in crudes IOPC Definition of a “ship” Chinese Marine Pollution Regulations Sanctions on oil products to Iran Model clauses – Piracy, Vetting, Virtual arrival Shelltime 4 / ShellNGTime 1 Facilitation payments IMO Year of the Seafarer

7. U.S. Sanctions on oil products to Iran INTERTANKO model clause: Any trade in which the vessel is employed under this Charterparty which could expose the vessel, its Owners, Managers, crew or insurers to a risk of sanctions imposed by a supranational governmental organisation or the United States, { insert other countries } shall be deemed unlawful and Owners shall be entitled, at their absolute discretion, to refuse to carry out that trade. In the event that such risk arises in relation to a voyage the vessel is performing, the Owners shall be entitled to refuse further performance and the Charterers shall be obliged to provide alternative voyage orders.

8. Report: IMO MEPC 60 Ballast Water Management North American “ECA” Hong Kong (Recycling) Convention GHG emissions MSC 87/Other Inert Gas for currently exempted chemical/products carriers

9. Report: EU EU Sulphur Directive Maritime Accident Investigations Finnish/Baltic fuel concerns

10. Report: US State of Massachusetts EPA NPDES Vessel General Permit CARB air emission standards

11. Report: Piracy UN Contact Group/SHADE/IMO-MSC Continuing Naval support Best Management Practices – Version 3 Guidance to companies, masters & crews on: - “Capture to Release” - the care of seafarers & others who have been hijacked Prosecutions – gathering/providing evidence US “Ban” on Ransom Payments Arming of Ships + Gulf of Guinea / Malacca Straits

12. Piracy/robbery incidents involving tankers 2008-2010 Based on data from IMB Piracy Reporting Centre Kuala Lumpur + others – figures are only indicative By region of assaultBy month By year of build of tanker New tankers preferred?

13. Council – Next Meeting 12/13 October in Singapore Commencing ca. 1400 / concluding ca. 1600 Council Dinner – 12 October + Other INTERTANKO events

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