Dispatches No. 397

InterManager Secretary General awarded honorary degree Secretary General of InterManager, Captain Kuba Szymanksi, has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Maritime Studies by Solent University. In addition to his role at InterManager, Captain Szymanski sits on the Executive Board of The Nautical Institute, is a Director at TK Foundation, and a Director at Seafarers Rights’ International. Captain Kuba Szymanski started his sea career in 1985. He graduated from the Maritime University of Szczecin with a Master’s Degree and started his deck officer career with Dorchester Maritime Limited, Isle of Man. He sailed Gas I Chemical and Product tankers, reaching his first command as a Master in 1999. In 2001 he commenced shore assignment as a Marine Superintendent in the parent Dorchester Maritime Ltd IOM, and was promoted to Marine Manager, DPA in 2004. Captain Szymanski was among the very first Lloyd’s Academy students on the Ship Superintendency course in 2003-2004. Working his way up through ship management, he worked as General Manager for MOLTANK before joining InterManager as Secretary General in 2010. Captain Szymanski became involved with the University after witnessing the experiments being carried out at the Warsash Campus for the HORIZON project on seafarers’ fatigue. InterManager became a partner on the subsequent MARTHA project, and he was directly responsible for the dissemination of the findings to the shipping industry. He has also endorsed the recent Solent-led Effective Crew Project and Seafarers Mentoring Project. Kuba is a great educationalist and a firm believer in supporting young seafarers.  He has provided funding to enable cadets to attend conferences and events in London and elsewhere. He is also a passionate believer in the value of research to bring about change in the shipping industry and a champion of the sector’s young career seekers. “I am truly humbled to receive this award. I am proud to be able to support the pioneering research carried out by Solent University which will benefit today’s and tomorrow’s seafarers as well as the global shipping industry.”

 

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Last week

AGM and ISSS – 11 September 2018 – London DATE CHANGE – PLEASE NOTE

Bank and Accounts

Adopt a ship

InterManager benchmarking and KPI project

Adopt a ship project

02.07 – 06.07 – IMO – London – Council – Capt. Paddy McKnight attending representing InterManager  – full report available from: https://www.intermanager.org/2018/07/imo-council-120th-session-2-5-july-2018/

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This Week:

 

Working on AGM and ISSS – date change to 11 September 2018 – London

Membership Issues

Adopt a ship

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Looking forward:

16.07 – 20.07 – IMO – London – HTW – Capt. Paddy McKnight attending representing InterManager

10.09 – 14.09 – IMO – London – CCC5 – Capt. Paddy McKnight attending representing InterManager

11.09 – London – Seagull Event – InterManager members welcomed. Capt. Kuba Szymanski speaking about “Human Touch” representing InterManager

11.09 – InterManager AGM and International Ship Management and Ship Owning Summit (ISSS) – London

02.10 – Humane – Trondheim – Study Workshop

• Increase knowledge on a systems level, what changes when autonomy is introduced?
• Suggest solutions to identified challenges
• Provide tested methods for prediction and support for organisations that wish to prepare themselves for an autonomous future

Markus Schmitz is representing InterManager

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Project updates:

Adopt a Ship

InterManager has joined the Cyprus Chamber of Shipping initiated campaign Adopt A Ship.

As of this week we have:
41 classes and 6 School Libraries in Poland, 2 Universities in Poland, 1 kindergarten in Poland; 3 orphanages in India  – 35 ships

Anyone interested to learn more about Adopt A Ship project please get in touch with Capt. Kuba Szymanski [email protected]

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Digital Ship’s Maritime Cyber Resilience Forum Hamburg

 

5 September 2018

Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH
Address: Messeplatz 1,
20357 Hamburg
Germany

Conference room: Kopenhagen 1 – 3” in hall B3

 

Website: http://www.smm.thedigitalship.com

Building on the great success of the Maritime Cyber Resilience Forum in Rotterdam, Athens, Singapore and Hamburg last year, the 3 key sessions during this Digital Ship’s Maritime Cyber Resilience Forum Hamburg will contain plenary presentations and panel discussions:

Session One: Facing the Cyber Threat: An Overview of Maritime Cyber Challenges and Focus on Building Resilience

Session Two: Business Planning and Cyber Preparedness

Session Three: Training, Awareness & Human Factor

 

 

To Register, click here:  http://www.smm.thedigitalship.com/register

Enquiries, please contact:  [email protected]

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Brgds Kuba

Capt. Kuba Szymanski

Secretary General

Mob: +44 7624 498 266