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 Anders
Björkman
The managing director
of Heiwa Co is Anders Björkman, M.Sc. Naval Architect
and Marine Engineer, with more than 35 years experience of
tanker and ferry design, construction and operations
worldwide. Mr Bjorkman has been a delegate to the IMO for
various national administrations and one NGO and has been a
speaker at various Safety at Sea conferences. Mr Bjorkman
holds several patents concerned with ship safety. Mr
Björkman is one of the most outspoken critics of the
Estonia accident investigation 1994-1997, which is still
debated 2005.
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1965 -1969
1971-1999
1970
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Education
Chalmers University of Technology
-Gothenburg/ Sweden, M.Sc. Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering - 1969
Various business courses and in-house training
1971-1999.
Military training
Marine engineer in Swedish Navy 1970 - specialized
into converting merchant ships into mine
layers.
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1971-1977
1977-1978
1978-1980
1980-2000
2000 -
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Professional experience
Lloyd's Register of Shipping - 1971
-1977
London/UK, Yokohama/Japan, Malmö/Sweden Ship
surveyor - Research/London, Design
approval/Yokohama - Japan (4 years), Newbuilding
supervision/Malmö and
Sölvesborg
Scandinavian Underwriters'
Agency 1977-1978
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ship surveyor - >100 damaged ships
surveys
Mediterranean Average
Adjusting Company 1978 -1980
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Casualty investigator, Average adjuster - about 50
adjustments
V.Ships 1980-2000
Monaco
Group naval architect - Project manager. V.Ships is
the worlds largest ship manager (founded 1984) with
>400 ships. Project manager for major repairs
world wide. Project manager for many conversions,
new buildings and similar projects worldwide, e.g.
six roro passenger ferries in Red Sea (1989-1997),
several passenger ship and gas tanker (Japan 1993)
newbuildings, war ship conversion Ukraine (1994)
and Russia (1996). Also safety and environmental
protection up-gradings. Also two years Marketing
manager - started V.Ships Norway and built up
V.Ships Scandinavian customer basis.
Heiwa Co. 2000 -
Beausoleil, France
Managing director
Heiwa Co is a development
and consultancy company for oil tankers,
roro-ferries and safety at sea. Achievements: (1)
has developed the only alternative to double hull
tankers approved by the United Nations
International Maritime Organization - 1990-1997.
(2) independent investigation of the Estonia
accident 1994-2000. (3) several ferry conversions
(with V.Ships).The objective of Heiwa Co is
to assist companies in the marine transport
business to develop safer and more economic
solutions.
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Patents and
publications
Tanker Collision Protection
System Patent (1990) - USA, Japan, Korea, Brazil,
Europe
Many articles published in
The Naval Architect, MER, Lloyd's List, Dagens
Nyheter about probabilistic methods to evaluate oil
tanker protection, passenger ship damage survival,
the 'Estonia' accident
etc.
Most recent publications:
Thoughts
about WTC1 911
Collapse (2008) -
Lies and
Truths about the MV Estonia
accident (1998), Nya
Fakta om Estonia (1999), Katastrofutredning
(2000), Disaster
Investigation (2001)
and Estoniabluffen
(2002).
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Additional professional
activities
Have served as expert to the
ICS, Liberia and Sweden delegations at the
IMO.
Represented Liberia in the
ICS Technical Committee
Speaker at international
safety conferences - Brighton 1998, Glasgow 1999,
 London
2002
Tallinn
2005
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Languages
Scandinavian
Spoken/Written
English
S/W
German
S/W
French
S/W
(Dutch - Spoken/read)
(Japanese - some
spoken)
(Arabic - some
spoken)
Computer languages - Words,
Excel, CASa Gifts, Acad, Corel Draw,
etc.
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