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

Performance Evaluation of Container Floors and Potential Alternatives
Dr. Manfred Genz
BASF SE, Plastics Growth Initiative,
Ludwigshafen, Germany
Click here for information about the BASF Container2020 day in October 08

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

Container Pavilion at Transport Logistic China

The COA and ITCO jointly organised a Container Pavilion at the Transport Logistic China Exhibition. The following companies were Exhibitors and Sponsors of the COA/ITCO stand

Exhibitors

Axicon International                              

Blue Ocean Asia Pacific                        

CIMC