02 April, 2017

The Maritime Standard Awards 2017 Aims to Set the Bar Higher Still



The region's leading maritime industry awards, officially launched today, are now in their fourth year. They will celebrate and reward the achievements of the best and brightest stars in the industry across the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent, from the shipping, ports and related maritime sectors, at a glamorous, high quality gala dinner in Dubai

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 2, 2017, (ME NewsWire):  The Maritime Standard Awards (TMS Awards) 2017 will take place at the Atlantis Ballroom, Atlantis, The Palm on 23rd October this year. This is the fourth year in succession that the Awards and gala dinner, now established as the leading event of its type in the region, returns to this impressive, iconic venue, aiming to set the bar higher still.

Trevor Pereira, managing director, says, “We have earned a deserved reputation for offering the very best in terms of the value and profile of the Awards and for the integrity of the judging process itself. But we cannot rest on our laurels. So this year we are planning to make the Awards even bigger, bolder and grander than ever before, to ensure we add real value to the industry in this part of the world."

The glittering event recognises and rewards achievement at the highest level and will be attended by around 700 top maritime executives and decision-makers not only from across the region, but also worldwide. A total of 30 Awards will be presented on the night, including a new one for Superyacht and Passenger Shipbuilder of the Year, reflecting the growing influence of the region in this particular market segment. Of these 22 will be selected by an elite panel of judges, handpicked for their knowledge and experience, while 8 will be chosen by The Maritime Standard team to mark exceptional individual achievements.

Winning an award gives companies and individuals a chance to significantly raise their profile. As Sheikh Daij Bin Salman Al Khalifa, chairman of Bahrain shipyard, ASRY, who won The Maritime Standard Editor’s Choice of the Year Award in 2016, says "The high quality of the guests and the audience was truly impressive. I would like to congratulate TMS for the professional manner in which the event was organised, which made it both valuable and enjoyable."

A host of leading companies from the region's shipping and maritime related industries have already confirmed their attendance and sponsorship. Those organisations supporting the Maritime Standard Awards 2017 include: Abu Dhabi Ports, Bahri, DNV GL, DP World, Islamic P & I Club, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company, Mercantile Marine Management, Oman Shipping Company and Safeen. Supporting Associations for the event include: UAE Shipping Association (UAESA); The Organisation of Islamic Shipowners Association (OISA); The Dubai Council for Marine and Maritime Industries (DCMMI); Mission to Seafarers UAE; Women's International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA), UAE Branch; Indian National Shipowner's Association (INSA); Pakistan Ship’s Agents Association; Ceylon Association of Ship Agents; World Freight Network; Specialist Freight Network; The Cooperative Logistics Network; Conqueror Freight Network; Globalia Logistics Network.

Entries for the Awards should be submitted by a deadline of August 10th. Information about how companies can nominate themselves for an Award can be accessed via the website www.tmsawards.com. Table bookings are also now being taken. For more details contact ammaar@flagshipme.com  


About The Maritime Standard
A subsidiary of Flagship Events, The Maritime Standard (TMS) publishes a high quality e-newsletter aimed specifically at the shipping and maritime community. It is delivered fortnightly, on the 1st and 15th of every month, and contains up-to-date news and analysis from the shipping and ports industries and related sectors. Topics that are covered include tanker, container, dry and liquid bulk, ro-ro, and cruise shipping; terminal operations; port development; classification; ship repair and conversion; shipbuilding; ship agency; finance and insurance; maritime law; and transportation & logistics. The Maritime Standard is edited by Clive Woodbridge, a journalist who has been writing about the maritime sector in the Middle East for over 20 years.

Another division of parent Flagship Events, The Maritime Standard Events focuses specifically on the requirements of the shipping and maritime sector. The company organises a series of industry-leading conferences and other events under its own brand, as well as for third parties in the shipping and ports business.

The Maritime Standard Awards offers the industry a high profile showcase, to recognise and reward achievements at the top level. It was first held in November 2014, hosted by PR guru, Alistair Campbell, and has since been followed by two more, in November 2015 and October 2016. These were hosted by Dutch soccer legend, Ruud Gullitt, and former CNN anchor Jim Clancy respectively.

جوائز ماريتايم ستاندرد 2017 تتطلع إلى الارتقاء بالقطاع البحري

تشهد الجوائز الرائدة في القطاع البحري التي جرى إطلاقها رسمياً اليوم، تنظيم دورتها الرابعة، وستكرّم إنجازات أفضل وألمع العاملين في القطاع على امتداد منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشبه القارة الهندية، من مجالات الشحن والموانئ والقطاعات البحرية ذات الصلة، وذلك خلال حفل فاخر ورفيع المستوى في دبي

دبي، دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، 2 أبريل 2017, ("إم إي نيوز واير”): ستشهد قاعة أتلانتس للحفلات، بفندق أتلانتس النخلة، تنظيم جوائز "ماريتايم ستاندرد 2017" ("تي إم إس") بتاريخ 23 أكتوبر من العام الجاري. وتعد هذه النسخة الرابعة على التوالي التي يتم فيها تنظيم الجائزة وحفل العشاء الذين يعتبران من الفعاليات الرئيسية من نوعها بالمنطقة، في هذا الموقع الرائع والأيقوني، وتهدف إلى الارتقاء بسوية العمل إلى مستويات أعلى.

وقال تريفور بيريرا، العضو المنتدب في سياق تعليقه: "لقد اكتسبنا سمعة طيبة نتيجة تقديمنا الأفضل من حيث القيمة ومحفظة الجوائز، إلى جانب النزاهة التي تتسم بها عملية التحكيم. لكننا لن نركن إلى هذه الإنجازات التي حققناها فقط، ولذلك فإننا نخطط خلال العام الجاري لجعل الجائزة أكبر وأكثر جرأة وأوسع من ذي قبل، وسنحرص على ضمان إضافة قيمة حقيقية إلى القطاع في هذا الجزء من العالم".

ويكرّم هذا الحدث المتألق الإنجازات المحققة على أعلى المستويات، وسيحضره نحو 700 من أرفع المسؤولين التنفيذيين وصنّاع القرار ليس من المنطقة فقط، بل من جميع أنحاء العالم كذلك. وسيشهد تقديم 30 جائزة في أمسية الحدث ومن ضمنها جائزة جديدة لفئة "صانع اليخوت الفائقة والسفن للعام"، والتي تعكس الأثر المتزايد لهذه المنطقة على هذا القطاع من السوق. وسيجري اختيار الفائزين بـ22 من الجوائز من قبل لجنة تحكيم تضم نخبة من الحكام المُختارين بعناية كبيرة بناءً على خبرتهم ومعارفهم الواسعة، في حين سيتم اختيار الفائزين الثمانية الباقين من قبل فريق "ماريتايم ستاندرد" عن إنجازاتهم الشخصية الاستثنائية.

ويسهم الفوز بجائزة من جوائز "ماريتايم ستاندرد" في إتاحة الفرصة للشركات والأفراد لتوسيع صيتهم في القطاع، وقال الشيخ دعيج بن سلمان آل خليفة، رئيس مجلس إدارة الشركة العربية لبناء وإصلاح السفن (أسري)، الفائز بجائزة "اختيار محرر ماريتايم ستاندرد للعام" في 2016: "لقد كان المستوى الرفيع للضيوف والحضور لافتاً للغاية، وأود في هذا السياق التقدم بالتهنئة إلى ’تي إم إس‘ على الأسلوب المهني الذي نظّمت من خلاله الحفل وأدى إلى جعل هذه الجوائز قيّمة وممتعة للغاية".

هذا وأكد طيف واسع من شركات الشحن والنقل البحري الرائدة في المنطقة حضورها ورعايتها للحدث، وتضمنت قائمة الشركات الداعمة لجوائز "ماريتايم ستاندرد 2017" كلاً من: موانئ أبوظبي، والشركة الوطنية السعودية للنقل البحري (البحري)، و"دي إن في جي إل"، وموانئ دبي العالمية، ونادي بيه آند آي الإسلامي، وشركة ناقلات النفط الكويتية، و"ميركانتايل مارين مانجمنت"، والشركة العمانية للنقل البحري، وشركة أبوظبي للخدمات البحرية (سفين). كما تضمنت قائمة الاتحادات الداعمة للحدث كلاً من: جمعية الإمارات للملاحة، ومنظمة الاتحاد الإسلامي لمالكي البواخر، ومجلس دبي للصناعات البحرية والملاحية، ومنظمة مهمة من أجل البحارة، والاتحاد الدولي للمرأة للشحن البحري والتجارة (فرع الإمارات)، وجمعية مالكي السفن الوطنية الهندية، واتحاد وكلاء السفن في باكستان، واتحاد وكلاء السفن في سيلان، وشبكة الشحن العالمية، وشبكة الشحن المتخصصة، وشبكة الخدمات اللوجستية التعاونية، وشركة كونكورير للشحن، وشبكة جلوباليا للشحن.

ونلفت عنايتكم إلى وجوب تقديم طلبات المشاركة قبل نهاية الموعد النهائي المقرر في العاشر من أغسطس المقبل. للمزيد من المعلومات عن كيفية ترشيح الشركات للجائزة، يمكنكم زيارة الموقع الإلكتروني التالي: www.tmsawards.com. كما يمكنكم كذلك التقدم لحجوزات الطاولات. للمزيد من التفاصيل الرجاء التواصل عبر البريد الإلكتروني التالي: ammaar@flagshipme.com.




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How SOHAR is helping to save the world, one school at a time.



  • SOHAR is actively supporting Green Schools Programme in Oman
  • Medicinal plant nurseries teach value of environmental conservation
  • Backed by UNESCO, Education Ministry, Sultan Qaboos University

In partnership with the Ministry of Education, the Doha office of UNESCO, Sultan Qaboos University, and a number of other NGOs, SOHAR Port and Freezone is actively supporting the Green Schools Programme in Oman. At Umaia Bint Qais School in Liwa, close to the fast growing industrial Port, one of the most exciting projects is the establishment of a medicinal plant nursery.

The earliest historical records of medicinal plants are found in the Sumerian civilisation, where hundreds of types are listed on clay tablets. Today, drug researchers make use of so-called ethno-botany to search for pharmacologically active substances in nature and have discovered hundreds of useful compounds, including digoxin, quinine and common household drugs such as aspirin. It is estimated that over 12,000 naturally occurring active compounds are already known to science.

Suwaid Al Shamaisi, Executive Manager Corporate Affairs at SOHAR Port and Freezone explains: “The Green Schools project aims to provide a new educational opportunity for students to learn about the importance of herbs and alternative medicine outside the normal confines of the classroom. By enhancing students’ awareness of environmental conservation and sustainability, we are trying to give our next generation a better understanding of how the environment can help to sustain lives.”
Due to environmental destruction, especially in the Amazon jungles, the earth loses an estimated one hundred plant species every day. As the rainforest disappears, so do many potentially valuable drugs. Currently twenty-five per cent of western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest materials, but less than one per cent of the materials that exist in the rainforest have ever been tested.

Mark Geilenkirchen, SOHAR CEO, summed up the initiative: “As SOHAR continues to expand as a major regional logistical and industrial hub, we pride ourselves on some of the strictest and best-policed environmental policies in the Middle East. With this project, we hope to enrich students’ education by empowering them to practically apply knowledge learnt at school, both at home and in the community to help reduce ecological impact and encourage sustainable practices.”

كيف يساهم صحار في الحفاظ على البيئة، من خلال مبادرة "المدارس الخضراء"

  • يقدم صحار دعماً فعالاً لبرنامج المدارس الخضراء في عُمان
  • مشاتل النباتات الطبية تغرس قيمة الحفاظ على البيئة
  • بالتعاون مع منظمة اليونسكو ووزارة التعليم وجامعة السلطان قابوس

يقدم ميناء صحار والمنطقة الحرة، بالتعاون مع وزارة التربية والتعليم ومكتب اليونسكو في الدوحة وجامعة السلطان قابوس بالإضافة إلى عدد من المنظمات غير الحكومية الأخرى، دعماً فعالاً لبرنامج المدارس الخضراء في عُمان. حيثُ يدعم صحار واحداً من المشروعات المثيرة للاهتمام وهو مشتل للنباتات الطبية في مدرسة أمية بنت قيس الكائنة بولاية لوى بالقرب من الميناء الصناعي السريع النمو.

وترجع بداية استخدام النباتات الطبية إلى الحضارة السومرية، إذ توجد أسماء مئات الأنواع من هذه النباتات محفورة على الألواح الطينية. فاليوم يستعين الباحثون المختصون في العقاقير بما يسمى بعلم النباتات الشعبي للبحث عن مواد دوائية فعالة في الطبيعة، وقد توصلوا بالفعل إلى مئات من المركبات المفيدة منها الديجوكسين والكينين والعقاقير الشائع استخدامها في المنازل مثل الأسبرين. وتشير التقديرات إلى أن العلم توصل إلى أكثر من 1200 مركب فعال متوفر في الطبيعة.

وبهذه المناسبة صرح سويد الشميسي المدير التنفيذي لشؤون الشركة بميناء صحار والمنطقة الحرة قائلاً: "يهدف مشروع المدارس الخضراء إلى توفير فرصة تعليم جديدة للطلاب للتعرف على أهمية الأعشاب والطب البديل خارج إطار دروس الفصل. ومن خلال رفع الوعي لدى الطلاب بأهمية الحفاظ على البيئة واستدامتها نسعى إلى إعطاء الجيل القادم فهماً أفضل حول مساهمة البيئة في الحفاظ على حياة الإنسان".
وتجدر الإشارة إلى أن الدمار البيئي، تحديداً في أدغال الأمازون، يؤدي إلى فقدان الأرض لمائة نوع من النباتات كل يوم. فمع اختفاء الغابات المطيرة تختفي الكثير من العقاقير التي قد تكون ذات قيمة. وعلى الرغم من أن حالياً يتم إنتاج 25% من الأدوية في الغرب من مواد مستخلصة من الغابات المطيرة، إلا أن أقل من 1% من المواد المتوفرة في هذه الغابات قد خضعت للاختبار.

وفي السياق ذاته قال مارك جيلنكيرشن الرئيس التنفيذي لميناء صحار والمنطقة الحرة تعليقاً على المبادرة: "في إطار سعي صحار للتوسع كمركز لوجستي وصناعي إقليمي، نفتخر بالتزامنا بمجموعة من السياسات البيئية الأكثر صرامة والمتبعة على أفضل وجه على مستوى الشرق الأوسط. فمن خلال هذا المشروع نأمل إثراء تعليم الطلاب بتمكينهم من تطبيق المعرفة التي يكتسبونها من المدرسة بشكلٍ عملي في المنزل وفي المجتمع، وذلك من أجل المساعدة في الحد من الأثر البيئي وتشجيع الممارسات المستدامة".


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Game on: Teradata 2017 EPIC Awards Open for Best Business Cases

Call for game-changing customer or alliance partner ‘wow’ stories starts now;
Winners honored at Teradata PARTNERS conference ‘orange-carpet event’
Dubai, UAE, April 2, 2017 – Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytics solutions company, today announced that entries for the 10th annual EPIC Awards are being accepted now through June 16, 2017. Award winners and finalists will be honored at an exclusive ceremony held during the Teradata PARTNERS Conference, October 22-26 in Anaheim, California. In keeping with the conference theme, “The Edge of Next,” the Teradata EPIC Awards program recognizes customers and alliance partners who achieve outstanding business results through analytics. Government agencies are also invited to participate and will be evaluated based on their ability to effectively address constituent needs.


“The EPIC Awards Program recognizes organizations that are innovative in the use of data and analytics to drive game-changing business results,” said Chris Twogood, Vice President of Product and Services Marketing, Teradata. “The Teradata community has many champions in thought leadership who know how to turn data into profitable business growth. We are looking for customer and alliance partner use cases at every level, in every area of business, and across every industry. Teradata users demand, and deliver, world-class performance.”
Eligible customers are those businesses or government agencies whose submitted use case is derived from the use of any Teradata product or solution. The customer EPIC Award categories are listed below, shown with last year’s winners:
Customer Awards
Category: Analytical Excellence
Solutions that improve business decision making by increasing the accuracy or speed of business insights, and by delivering measurable improvements in revenue, organizational performance and/or productivity.
  • 2016 Winner: Anthem Inc.
  • Project: Client Information Insights (CII) 2.0 - Client Information Insights (CII) is a robust reporting and analytics solution for employers, brokers and consultants.

Category: Big Data Excellence
Winners in this category are doing groundbreaking work to deliver business outcomes using big data, and/or data lakes with BI technologies and techniques.
  • 2016 Winner: China Merchants Bank
  • Project: Big Data Planning Project - This big data planning project focused on technical aspects, investigated business requirements and summarized big data use case categories.


Category: Customer Journey Excellence
Solutions in this class deliver customer insights from any channel and help drive customer engagement, response, or loyalty; and implementations that optimize data-driven marketing programs.
  • 2016 Winner: Southwest Airlines
  • Project: Customer Centricity Transformation (CCT) - Customer Data Warehouse (CDW) - This new Technology is allowing Southwest Airlines to drive customer insights, improve customer acquisition and retention, dramatically expand customer segmentation and fully leverage its investment in its new reservation system.
Category: Collaboration and Innovation Excellence
This category honors a team of colleagues or a top Technologist or Business Leader (CIO, CMO, vice president or director) who generated a positive impact on their organization, leading integration of business and IT and the application of Teradata technology to improve his or her company's business performance.
  • 2016 Winner: Ken Drake, Senior Director of Business Intelligence, Blizzard Entertainment - With a commitment to building strong teams, leveraging global resources and always putting the customer at the center, Ken successfully implemented the Teradata Unified Data Architecture from scratch in only six months.
Category: Integrated View of the Business
Solutions in this class deliver analytic insights by unifying the data ecosystem into a cohesive analytic environment on premises or in the public or private cloud, by harnessing data sources, data types and/or data structures across an organization.
  • 2016 Winner: Sanofi
  • Project: Maestro - This is the first ambitious project where the customer built an agile clinical data warehouse to address the clinical trial challenges and high variability of the increasing data volume.
Category: On the Edge with Internet of Things (IoT)
By capturing and analyzing all types of sensor data from telematics and/or interconnected devices such as vehicles, meters, machines, weather devices, buildings, manufacturing lines, and shopping carts, this emerging breakthrough business application can monetize the industrial Internet of Things by changing business models, improving processes, exploiting new technologies, improving personal health, or enhancing the customer experience in new ways.
  • 2016 Winner: Siemens AG
  • Project: Internet of Trains @ Siemens Mobility Services - Considered to be the leading IoT platform using the Teradata® Unified Data Architecture™, this platform represents a new, market-leading offering of data-driven insights, opening up a new customer segment that was previously not addressable.


Category: Operational Excellence
Implementations in this class use data and analytics to deliver measurable improvements in the organization’s operations, such as forecasting or anticipating customer demand; improving inventory management, supply chain visibility or increasing sustainable business practices and resource optimization.
  • 2016 Winner: United States Air Force
  • Project: Data-Driven Vehicle Management at United States Air Force - This program represents the nation’s 4th largest government vehicle fleet of over 78K assets valued at more than $7B.


Integration & Consulting Partner (ICP) & Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Awards
Category: ICP & ISV Big Data Intelligence
Partners in this group will have leveraged one or more of Teradata’s platform technologies including Teradata, Teradata Aster,  Hadoop, or any Teradata Cloud offering -- to leverage new emerging data sources such as Web logs, sensor data, digital marketing optimization platforms, Web path analysis, or other advanced analytics for discovery and insight.
  • 2016 Winner (ICP): IBM Global Business Services
  • Project: Always-On CRM Analytics - This project provides one of the top four largest financial institutions in Australia with new insights into customer behavior and experience across the bank’s international divisions by combining banking data with external data through partnerships with other industries such as telecommunications, retail, insurance, industrials and financial organizations.
  • 2016 Winner (ISV): SAS
  • Project: Railway Advanced Analytics Platform – This customer from the SAS-Teradata partnership, a major transportation provider, is supported by an integrated portfolio of products in Teradata’s Unified Data Architecture.


Category: ICP Business Insight
This award recognizes a partner who has developed and implemented a point solution -- such as pre-built applications or an industry offer -- that uses any analytic data platform, including Teradata, Teradata Aster, Hadoop and/or one of our analytic applications to deliver analytic insights to customers.
  • 2016 Winner (ICP): Capgemini and Coca-Cola Refreshments
  • Project: Predictive Ordering – This partner has been and is currently providing a host of services in multiple areas across the value chain,  offering a tailored approach to deliver services and innovations enabled by a host of capability centers.
Category: ICP & ISV Enterprise Intelligence
This award recognizes a partner who has worked with a customer to build a company-wide solution leveraging a Teradata enterprise data warehouse to drive value.
  • 2016 Winner (ICP): Accenture
  • Project: Insights Data Lab - Over the past three years, this partner has assisted a mutual customer in moving from an IM Strategy to the selection of a new platform and the delivery execution for a new data foundation. Additionally in 2015, the first phase of a new strategy went into production with the development of an “Insights Data Lab” for advanced analytics.
  • 2016 Winner (ISV): Fuzzy Logix and Tesco
  • Project: Tesco Sales Forecasting Analytics - This partner and Teradata collaborated with a large retailer in Europe to implement a sales forecasting solution to accelerate forecasts, which can now be run multiple times per day and take into account multiple variables down to the store level.

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