AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Anders Björkman graduated from Chalmers University of Technology in 1969 with an M.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

He spent a year in the Royal Navy, e.g. with planning conversions of ferries and other ships into minelayers and has worked for Lloyd's Register as a class surveyor, for Scandinavian Underwriters Agency as an underwriter's surveyor, for Mediterranean Average Adjusting Co. as average adjuster and for twenty years as group naval architect for V. Ships.

Since 1989 Mr. Björkman has assisted the El Salam shipping company, Cairo, Egypt to be the leading roro-passenger shipping company in the Red Sea and lately the Mediterranean with today 14 roro-passenger ships transporting > 1 000 000 persons annually.

When M/S Estonia sank 1994 Mr. Björkman started his own investigation into the sinking, as per Company ISM instructions, so that similar accidents would not occur in his own fleet. The findings have been published in book form and received good reviews by, e.g. the Naval Architect magazine and national newspapers. The findings were brought to the attention of many maritime administrations and the IMO in 1997.

Mr. Björkman has developed the Coulombi Egg oil tanker system, which is the only alternative design system to double hull according to Marpol I/13F(5) approved by the IMO in 1997. It is the only ship/tanker design purely developed according to damage statistics and FSA.

Mr. Björkman has made written contributions about ship's safety and works today as a ship safety consultant.

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