GPF Executive Workshop on Dredging Techniques and Construction Management for Ports & Terminals, 13-14 Jun, 2024 Singapore.
GPF Executive Workshop on Dredging Techniques and Construction Management for Ports & Terminals, 13-14 Jun, 2024 Singapore.
GPF Executive Workshop on Dredging Techniques and Construction Management for Ports & Terminals, 13-14 Jun, 2024 Singapore.
Dear Industry collegaues
About the Course
Successful maritime construction projects require skilled contractors, consultants and clients, bound by a fair contract, who are willing and able to work together to resolve technical and management difficulties as they arise. This workshop aims to develop, amongst contracting partners, a constructive approach for planning, design and execution of dredging and maritime construction projects. It will highlight the capital intensive nature of maritime construction, in contrast with other civil works that are predominately labor intensive, and will consider the key issues in the preparation phase of such projects including site characterization, feasibility study, preliminary and detailed design, finance management, project administration and dispute resolution.
Who to attend
Dredging and maritime construction projects involve a wide range of skills and professional from different discipline. The target audience comprises of
- Consulting Engineers, designers, resident engineers, site staff
- Dredging contractors, project managers, site engineers
- Legal counselors, construction lawyers and arbitrators
- Insurers, projects financiers and financial managers
- Advisors – dredging and maritime construction projects
- Dredging officers (Deputy Conservators / Harbor Masters / Pilots / Hydrographic Survey Department Officers / Surveyors / Chief Engineers / Executive Engineers / Engineers (Civil Department of Ports, Law Officers of Ports, Inland Water Transport, Minor Ports, Maritime States)
- Young Engineers, Dredging and Shipping Cadets and Maritime Students
Course Outline
- Historical evolution of dredging
- New Dredging Techniques and Equipment
- Characteristics of Detailed Project Report
- Contracts, Legislation and Engineer Determination
- Planning and Execution of the Dredging Project
- Rivers, Canals, Waterways Dredging
- Handling large volume of Projects
- Potential known and unknown risks
- Dispute Resolution and Arbitration members
Program Schedule
| Day 1 | |
| 0900 to 1000 Hrs | Historical Evolution of Dredging
Transformation and Development in Dredging Need of Dredging Various Dredging Techniques |
| 1100 – 1200 Hrs | Types of Dredgers, advantages and disadvantages
Identification of Dredging Equipments for the Project Combination of Dredges for Projects Planning for Dredger Deployment |
| 1200 – 1300 Hrs | Characteristics of Detailed Project Report
Interpretation of Detailed Project Report Analysis of Detailed Project Report Strata and Substrata information Other Project Details |
| 1300 – 1315 Hrs | Recap – Discussion |
| 1315 – 1400 Hrs | Lunch Break |
| 1400 – 1500 Hrs | Dredging and its significance
– Ports and Harbor – Inland Waterways – Rivers, Dams and Reservoirs Equipments identification for the above projects |
| 1500 – 1600 Hrs | Project Planning
Permission, Permits and Licence Logistics Planning Schedule of Works – Detailed Micro level planning Design and Detailed Engineering |
| 1600 – 1700 Hrs | Design of Tender Documents
Technical Specifications Special Conditions of Contract Project Specific contracts |
| Day 2 | |
| 0900 – 1000 Hrs | Technical Data and Information – Dredging Project
– Bathymetry Data and Topography Data – Strata and Substrata Data – Climatic Conditions – Political Interference – Fishermen / Local Interference – Shipping Traffic – Cyclone information – Hydraulics, waves, currents, swell information |
| 1000 – 1100 Hrs | Soil Analysis and Modeling
Production Calculation for Difference Dredgers Interpretation of Borehole Logs and other geotechnical data |
| 1100 – 1200 Hrs | Schedule of Program
Planning of Schedule of Works Methodology Approval Revised Schedule of Works Revised Methodology |
| 1200 – 1300 Hrs | Introduction to Basic Works Contract
Essentials of Contracts Different Types of Contract |
| 1300 – 1315 Hrs | Recap – Discussion |
| 1315 – 1400 Hrs | Lunch Break |
| 1400 – 1500 Hrs | Dispute Resolution Board – Alternate Dispute Resolution Mechanism |
| 1500 – 1600 Hrs | Arbitration and Legal Recourse |
| 1600 – 1700 Hrs | Discussion – Q and A |
Note: There shall be two tea / coffee breaks in a day the timing can be mutually accepted for such breaks
About the Course Director (subject to final confirmation)
George Yesu Vedha Victor is from the 6th Batch of All India Dredging Cadre (AIDC) and obtained his Dredge Master Certificate of Competency. He is the General Secretary of Eastern Dredging Association India and Board Member of Eastern Dredging Association (Asia, Australia region). He obtained his Doctoral Degree from Indian Institute of Cultivation of Science, Calcutta. He obtained his licence as Chartered Engineer from Royal Society of Engineers, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow in Indian Council of Arbitration and FICCI – Fact. He is full member in Mediation and Dispute Resolution, United Kingdom. He was awarded the Young Scientist award by TN – DST for his contribution to research work. He is a qualified Marine Lawyer and Arbitrator, appearing for commercial contracts, admiralty law and maritime matters.
Victor is empanelled consultant in Asian Development Bank, World Bank and United Nations – ESCAP. He still pursue his passion for teaching being a visiting professor in maritime institutions. regularly provides his inputs for the betterment of the Industry to the policy makers of Ministry of Shipping, DG Shipping, INSA, EADA, African Ports Association and others. He is a peer reviewer and is on Editorial board for reputed international and national journals. He served as a member in the 12th Five Year Planning Committee for ports – capital and maintenance dredging and is a National Committee Member of FICCI in Infrastructure Development.
Thomas Ng
Thomas Ng has over 29 years of consulting experience in the ports and shipping industry. Thomas is known for developing innovative solutions for players within the ports & shipping industry, — in areas of investments advisory, port strategy, development, marketing, planning & redesign, customer services and port operations; and delivering superior results.
He is the Executive Chairman of The Global Ports Forum (GPF) since 2008. The Global Ports Forum is a platform where all ports stakeholders in the ecosystem- port customers, port authorities, port operators, port people, port suppliers & service providers are gathered together to discuss about issues furthering the interests of ports globally.
Thomas is well-respected in the ports & shipping circles — recognized for his in-depth industry knowledge and far-reaching personal industry network and linkages. Some of his recent port investments advisory work include ports in the Middle East, Africa, Southern Europe, South East Asia, Latin America, etc.
Given Thomas’ far-reaching personal port industry network and linkages, Thomas is often seek out by port investors and port privatisation candidates all over the world for collaborative partnership.
Thomas is invited regularly as speaker & facilitator for Ports conferences, roundtable and executive programs and workshops.
He is the senior port & terminal training expert for the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP) for foreign ports officials for over 10 years. Recent programmes conducted by Thomas include the 5 days executive program in “Port Development and Competitiveness”, Singapore on 12-16 Dec 2016 where Thomas was the key trainer for over 60% of the whole executive program. Some other early SCP programmes that Thomas taught over 20 senior foreign government transport officials included the 2 weeks Singapore MFA Executive Programme in Logistics & Distribution Management on 28 Aug – 10 Sep 2007 & again on 6 Oct – 17 Oct 2008.
Thomas spoke recently at the Transport Intelligence Singapore 2013 Infrastructure panel, together with senior executives from the World Bank & UPS, the Container Depot Association Singapore Conference 2014 on ports and infrastructure, Tank Storage Asia Conference in 2015 and an exclusive Roundtable on Smart ports & ships and Internet of Things in Jun 2016.
On a professional level, Thomas founded the non-government voluntary organization — The Global Ports Council (GPC) in 2008. As of today, over 192 C-level executives globally presents themselves as members of our council. Our prestigious list of Council members are as follows:
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This programme is subject to change without notice, E&O.E.