What’s Good and What’s Bad for Tanker Operators? Tanker Operator Conference Hamburg April 2016
Martin L Shaw MBA C Eng C Mar Eng FI Mar EST AFNI Mana...
The good news The bad news…new regulations The world The oil industry The customer The ship operators challenges – The system – Is there another system?
• Balanced market providing fair • Transparent ownership and taxation return for owners and economic • Ship-owners committed to common transportation for charterers standards • Single uniform standard across • No competition between flag states, the globe class societies. • Consistent compliance and enforcement
• Clean up and liability costs totally covered by international funds • No need for port state and vetting• No overreaction by media and politicians. • No traders.
Conclusions • Healthy tanker rates? • Incident rates and pollutions are low but the consequence of getting it wrong is even higher than it was • Demand is uncertain with world growth, price, demand, energy security and climate change • There are many customers – National oil companies are increasingly the main player – IOC’s • Super majors, majors • Traders • E&P’s