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7th COA Members Meeting, Shanghai
145 Delegates Participate at Key Industry Event

Tuesday 8 June 2010: A total of 145 delegates attended the 7th COA Members Meeting, which took place at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel, Shanghai, on Monday 7 June 2010,

The Conference covered a number of key issues:

• Tracking the container shipping recovery - is it sustainable?
• Container Shipping Market: Now and in the Future
• Container manufacturing: prospects for 2010 and beyond
• Container tagging standards
• New challenges for the container depot industry
• Progress on environmentally friendly paint systems
• IICL Flooring Initiatives (Alternative Floor Design and Floor Audit Programme)
• COA Recommended Code of Practice for Flexitanks
• Shipping lines and tank container operators: improving operational co-operation
• Current and future activities of the COA and its Regional Branches

Environmental Strategy for the Container Industry
The Conference concluded with a Panel Discussion on the development and implementation by the COA of an Environmental Strategy for the Container Industry.

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Photos at bottom of page

Introduction and Welcome
Patrick Hicks
Secretary
Container Owners Association

Tracking Recovery – Is it sustainable?
Ben Hackett
Hackett Associates

Container Shipping Market: Now and Future
Kong Fanhua
Manager of Shipping Research Dept
COSCO R&D Center

Container Manufacturing: 2010 and beyond
Cathy Gao
Overseas Marketing Director
CXIC

Smart and Secure Containers
Dr. Zhou, Shouqin
Deputy General Manager
CMIC SSC

COA Association Progress and Current Activities (to follow)
Paul Merritt
Senior Vice President, Products and Marketing
GE SeaCo


Reports from COA Regional Branches:

1. Australasia Regional Branch
Lindsay Carthew
Director, SCF Group
Director, COA Australasia Branch

2. Korea Regional Branch
BJ Chun
Managing Director, Boxjoin Ltd
Director, COA Korea Branch


The depot industry: new challenges
Paul Erik Andersen
Chief Commercial Officer
Brigantine Group, Hong Kong

Progress on environmentally friendly paint systems
Paul McCrory
Commercial Manager, Global Container
The Valspar Corporation

Tagging zinc primer: new technology to ensure integrity of container coatings
Lyle Small
Chromatic Technologies, Inc

IICL Update
Steven R. Blust
President
Institute of International Container Lessors (IICL)

Shipping Containers Marking - New Directions
Eva Yang
Commercial Graphics Division
Displays & Graphics Business
3M China Limited

Shipping lines and tank container operators: improving operational co-operation
Reginald Lee
President
International Tank Container Organisation

COA Recommended Code of Practice for Flexitanks
Patrick Hicks
Secretary
Container Owners Association


Panel Discussion: Developing and Implementing an Environmental Strategy for the Container Industry

Introduction from the Session Moderator
Nigel Stribley
Director
Blue Sky Intermodal

Green Award Foundation
Jan Fransen
Managing Director
Green Award Foundation

A total of 145 participants participated at the 7th COA Members Meeting. The Keynote Panel included presentations from: Kong Fanhua (left), Manager of Shipping Research Dept, COSCO R&D Center; Ben Hackett (2nd from left), Hackett Associates; and Cathy Gao (right), Overseas Marketing Director, CXIC. The Session Moderator was Michael Callus (2nd from right), Vice President, Containers, United Arab Shipping Company and COA Board Director

Ben Hackett Kong Fanhua Cathy Gao

The Conference Presentations generated interesting Q & A Sessions

Session 2 was moderated by COA Director Paul Merritt (2nd from right), Senior Vice President, Products and Marketing, GE SeaCo. Presentations were made by Paul Erik Andersen (left), Chief Commercial Officer, Brigantine Group, Hong Kong; Lindsay Carthew (2nd from left), Director, SCF Group and Director, COA Australasia Branch; and BJ Chun (right), Managing Director, Boxjoin Ltd and Director, COA Korea Branch

Reginald Lee (above left), President of the International Tank Container Organisation.

Above Right: The Panel for the Environment Session (from L to R): Angela Wang, Vice President, Dong Fang International Container; Jan Fransen, Managing Director, Green Award Foundation; Nigel Stribley, Director, Blue Sky Intermodal; Michael Callus, Vice President Container, UASC; Kim Scheibel, Group Director, Hempel; and Brian Darnowski, Vice President Operations, Triton Container

In addition to the Conference Sessions, there were a number of
networking opportunities for delegates throughout the day

Container Pavilion at the Transport Logistic China 2010 Exhibition

9 June 2010: After the COA Members Meeting, a total of 25 companies participated in the Container Pavilion at the Shanghai Transport Logistics China 2010 exhibition. Exhibitors and sponsors reported a high number of visitors, with the Pavilion remaining busy throughout the three days.

Subject to demand from Members, the COA will organise a Container Pavilion at the next Transport Logistic China exhibition in two years time (5-7 June 2012). To view a PDF of the Exhibition Catalogue, distributed at the Show, click HERE

 

Shanghai 08: 6th COA Members Meeting  

Environment under Spotlight at 6th COA Members Meeting

“Containers and the Environment” was the principal theme of the COA’s 6th Members Meeting, which took place in Shanghai on Monday 16 June 2008. Over 180 delegates participated in the conference.

A full session was devoted to progress in the development of “environmentally-friendly” containers, including

• Flooring: finding alternatives to tropical hardwoods
• Refrigeration machinery and reefer containers: reducing the environmental impact
• Container paints: reducing solvent emissions

In addition to the sessions on the environment, the 6th COA Members Meeting included reports on other COA activities, including:

• COA Working Groups and Regional Branch developments
• Container Standards in China, and a review of intermodal on the Yangtze River
• Development of a COA Flexitank Code of Practice
• Progress by Ensis on container floor treatment
• An Open Discussion Forum for members to discuss COA developments

COA Members can download the presentations by clicking on the speakers' names.
(Non-members who attended the conference should contact the COA Secretariat - secretary@containerownersassociation.org)

COA: Association Progress and Current Activities
Bernard Isoard
Chairman, Container Owners Association
Logistics Director, CMA-CGM

Reports from COA Regional Branches
- Australasia
Richard Sykes
Director, SCF Containers Ltd
Director, COA Australasia Branch

- Korea
BJ Chun
Managing Director, Boxjoin Ltd
Director, COA Korea Branch

Container standardisation in China; and intermodal developments on the Yangtze River
Fei Weijun
Waterborne Transportation Institute
Ministry of Communications, China

Update on Australian container flooring analysis
Jim Creffield
Leader, Entymological Services
CSIRO Forest Biosciences, Australia

Alternative Materials for Container Flooring
Marc Weidemann
Senior Container Engineer
Hapag-Lloyd

Proposed COA Industry standard for flexitank manufacture and operation
- Introduction
Alec McAndrew, General Manager, Engineering, Trans Ocean Distribution
Andrew Watson, Technical Director, Braid Group

- Presentation
Justin Smith, Project Engineer, Trans Ocean Distribution 

BIC Activity Report
Jorn Heerulff

The manufacturer’s perspective of the problems of introducing water based paints into container production
Mark J Chen
Design Department
CIMC 

V.ABC Group progress report on its water-borne container coating
Cynthia Ho
Marketing Department
V.ABC Group Limited 

Valspar’s waterborne coatings solution for containers
Thomas Mathews
Business Director, General Industrial
Valspar Corporation

Powder coating option as an alternative to wet paint
Roy Frankland
Technology Manager – Asia Pacific
DuPont Performance Coatings

Background to sourcing of timber and production of tropical hardwood plywood in China and Asia
Tamara Stark
Forest Campaigns Manager
Greenpeace China

Reducing Container Refrigeration's Impact on the Environment
James Taekens
Product Manager
Carrier Transicold

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Keynote Presentations