Through appointing a new Business Development Manager (BDM) and a dedicated Technical Coordinator, Germanischer Lloyd (GL) hopes to strengthen its position in the inland waterway vessel market in the Netherlands. Tom Dorsman and Ruben Roeleveld will fill these positions.
Mr. Dorsman is a dedicated sales specialist for the inland waterway vessel market. Mr. Roeleveld will be responsible for coordinating activities between plan approval surveyors, field surveyors, business development managers and clients and will be the comany’s contact with the IVW (Inspectie Verkeer en Waterstaat), the Dutch Shipping Inspectorate. Both are based in Rotterdam.
Accredited for Inspections on behalf of IVW
GL wishes to strengthen its presence in the inland shipping sector, especially after being authorised by the EU in 2006 to conduct statutory inspections of inland vessels navigating in Community Inland Waterways. This year, the IVW accredited the organisation to conduct inspections on Dutch flagged inland vessels on their behalf. An updated version of GL’s rules for inland navigation vessels is forthcoming.
Biography Tom Dorsman
After attending the KOPS (Koninklijk Onderwijsfonds voor de Scheepvaart/Royal School for Inland Waterway Vessels) in Rotterdam, Dorsman spent a short period at sea before returning to work for Castrol. In 1992 he joined Detroit Diesel in Dordrecht, and later worked for MTU Friedrichshafen, responsible for sales on the Inland Marine Market. In 2006 he became a broker and owners’ superintendent for newbuild barges bringing cascos (IWV hulls), built in eastern Europe and later Asia, back for outfitting in the Netherlands at Kuipers Shipbuilding in Ridderkerk.
Biography Ruben Roeleveld
Roeleveld most recently worked for the IVW as a ship inspector for inland water vessels. He undertook field surveys and plan approval, as well as approving hull safety arrangements, fire insulation and other safety measures. Previous to this, he was a ship plan approval surveyor at Lloyd’s Register, mainly focused on hull construction in inland water vessels and yachts. He studied Design, Construction and Production at the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Maritime Technique, University of Delft; graduating as a Master in Shipbuilding Engineering.
Currently, over 800 inland waterway vessels are GL classed, including modern double hulled tankers. Several seagoing vessels of GL’s fleet are also subject to inland waterway certification.
Picture: Ruben Roeleveld (left) and Tom Dorsman
