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IUMI Tokyo Conference
September 17 - 20 2006


Monday, 18 September:

Presentations by Keynote-Speakers:
Short revue of the Japanese Non-Life Insurance Market. Koji Yoshida
Marine Insurance Toward Quality Shipping. Dr Takeo Koyama

Facts and Figures Committee:
Report of the Committee & Report on World Merchant Fleet. Tore Forsmo
Global Marine Insurance Report. Astrid Seltmann

Facts and Figures Workshop:
Risk of Misdeclared Cargos. Captain James McNamara
Container Operations and Risk Handling from the Underwriter's Point of View. Matthias Kirchner
World Shipbuilding Statistics. Simon Stonehouse

Inland Hull, Fishing Vessels and Yachting Committee:
Report of the Committee. Robert Gallagher
Cargo Committee:
Report of the Committee. Michael Davies
Ocean Hull Committee:
Report of the Committee. Ole Wikborg
Loss Prevention Committee:
Report of the Committee. Quentin Prebble
Legal and Liability Committee:
Report of the Committee. Andrew Garger
Energy and Offshore Committee:
Report of the Committee. Dominick Hoare

 


Tuesday, 19 September:

Cargo Workshop and Presentation:
Airbus A380 - How Efficient Insurance Risk Management Can Respond to this Challenge. I. Zimmermann
Maritime Safety - A Record of Continuous Improvement. Richard Leslie
Violent Risk Forecasting and Strategic Intelligence for the Cargo Watch List. Kirsten Parker
Cargo Loss Prevention in Southern China. Masataka Nose
Underwriting and Claims Considerations on Fish. Masatoshi Komori
What does Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS) stand for?. Matthew O'Sullivan

Energy and Offshore Workshop:
Operational Risk Overview. Dudley Chapman
Rig Contractors - The Changing Risk. David Cooper
Drilling Technology and Emerging Risks. Jim Embury
Natural Gas Hydrate - The New Gas Transportation System. Tatsuya Takaoki

Legal and Liability Open Forum:
Some Recent Developments in Japanese Maritime Law. Toshiaki Iguchi
The Origin of Social Responsibility in Japan and Current Status. Hidetaka Moriya
Impact of Changes to Limitation of Liability in Pollution and Non-Pollution Related Claims. Anthony Archibald
Legislation on International Carriage of Goods by Sea and Inland Carriage of Goods in BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) Countries. Shuji Yamguchi

Ocean Hull Workshop:
The Salvage of Large Container Vessel. Richard B. Fairbanks
General Average Issues - Large Container Vessels. Toru Shigematsu
Changing and Expanding Risks on LNG Vessels. Makoto Hoshi
Underwriters' Challenge: Advancing Technology and Marine Claims. Peter Zahalka

IFY Workshop:
The Fishing Industry - Types of Vessels. Joaquim Simplicio
The Fishing Vessel Industry in Japan incl. Risk Assessment Issues. Tetsuo Miyake
Risk Assessment and Sound Underwriting Practices of Fishing Vessels. Geoffrey Parkinson
Fishing Vessels and Loss Prevention. Henk Arntz
Improvement of Safety for Fishing Vessels. Eric Berder

 


Wednesday, 20 September:

Loss Prevention Workshop:
Goods of Low Severity and High Frequency. Ichiro Ogata
How to Prevent Theft? By Applied Environmental Criminology. Masahiro Horiike
Transportation and Storage of Coal. John Minton
Fires on Passenger Vessels. Graham Charlton
Mitigatin Hurricane Losses After the Event. Kevin Jarman

Closing Session:
Cycles in Insurance and Reinsurance: Is marine Different? Why don't People Learn? Where are we Today?. Christoph Menn


Meeting Minutes
Summary of the Conference by Eamonn Magee: Insurance Risks of ever-larger Containerships