Profiles in Training: Ken Chapman Senior Instructor, Maersk Training
father and he advised against it, saying the MN was a thing of the past in the UK. As it happened, he was right to a certain extent. By 1979 I was made redundant due to the downturn of the British Fleet. After trying various jobs onshore, I started work with BP as an oil and gas operator in Sullom Voe Oil Terminal. Island life suited me but not my wife, so a change was called for, and I went back to sea working on Standby Vessels and AHTS vessels.After a year or so there was a downturn in the N. Sea, and I was forced to make another change. This resulted in work onshore in areas different to MN or shipping
IBIA Appoints Manager for Asia Market
a new Regional Manager to manage its office in Singapore, covering the Asia region. Simon Neo, IBIA in Asia’s new Regional Manager has more than 30 years of oil and shipping industry experience including holding senior management roles. He started his career as a supervisor in an oil terminal and then worked as a senior surveyor for different surveying companies. He joined the bunkering industry in 1992 and was involved in the operations, sales and marketing, trading and purchasing of bunker fuel for an international shipping firm. Well versed in policy issues Neo has served
Staff to Strike at Vopak after Wage Talks Break Down
Vopak said staff would begin a series of strikes at the company's terminals after talks aimed at securing improved employment conditions for 800 staff broke down on Tuesday afternoon. A union official said the strike would begin at 2000 GMT and last a total of four hours and would affect one oil terminal at the Europoort in Rotterdam. It would be followed by similar strikes at different terminals in the coming days. "The work stoppages will continue until Vopak makes a better offer," said Ruud Wenneke of the FNV Havens union. He said all loading and unloading of transport vehicles
Greenpeace Targets Russian Tanker at Rotterdam Port
;The actions of Greenpeace have caused unnecessary extra stress for the ship’s captain and potentially unsafe operating conditions for the vessel when maneuvering in the restricted area of the port waters, and especially by the Greenpeace actions preventing the safe mooring of the tanker to the oil terminal.” The ship’s master, Stanislav Chichin, weighed in as well. “As a Master I know that the actions of Greenpeace have needlessly distracted our highly professional crew from its normal work in an area of highly intensive shipping traffic. The crew of tanker Mikhail Ulyanov
