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Marine Terminal Particulars Questionnaire 2 Release update Nov. 2021

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:49:00 GMT

Vroeg Waarschuwing Systeem om risico's te voorkomen

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 07:01:00 GMT

Deepwater Horizon; als je de film bekijkt zie je dat diverse apparatuur niet functioneerde. Die informatie werd genegeerd, de rest is geschiedenis.

Landtanks op de Cilacap raffinaderij, Indonesië stonden deze week in brand. Ik heb daar gewerkt en begrijp dat een tekort aan informatie door slecht onderhoud de oorzaak kan zijn geweest.

De informatietheorie en de cybernetica bewijzen dat informatie fysisch is. Bits van informatie zijn de fundamentele bouwstenen van de werkelijkheid. Inzicht in deze verbazingwekkende wetenschappen is van cruciaal belang voor de levensduur, de continuïteit, de veiligheid en de duurzaamheid van tankopslag- en raffinageactiviteiten.

Opslagterminals en raffinaderijen die er niet in slagen informatieprocessen en interne controlesystemen effectief te implementeren, zullen waarschijnlijk op een bepaald moment met een informatietekort te maken krijgen, wat zal leiden tot slechtere prestaties. Begrijpen hoe een tekort aan informatie leidt tot entropie of wanorde is van cruciaal belang als u een effectief en veilig bedrijf wilt runnen.

Wij passen 3 universele wetten van de fysica en de cybernetica toe;

a. Informatie blijft behouden en kan niet worden gescheiden of gewist uit onze fysieke werkelijkheid.

b. Informatie tekort (tekort) ≙ Entropie (wanorde) ( ≙ per definitie).

c. De Wet van Vereiste Variëteit

Terminal Managers en Supervisors zijn zich vaak niet bewust en proberen de 3 wetten van de fysica te breken die niet gebroken kunnen worden zonder verhoogd risico in de vorm van entropie (wanorde). Terminal management en operaties zijn dynamisch en hebben informatie feedback nodig in real time om gestuurd en maximaal gecontroleerd te worden. Dit kan niet worden geregeld of geautomatiseerd vanwege de fysica van onzekerheid en de realiteit van leven en werken in een niet-lineair universum, maar kan wel worden "gestuurd" door informatiefeedback

Wij hebben een systeem voor vroegtijdige waarschuwing ontworpen dat het potentiële informatietekort meet om de kwetsbaarheid te voorspellen. Wat wij aanbieden is toegang tot de kwantiteit en kwaliteit van informatie in organisaties om het potentiële niveau van blootstelling aan risico's met wetenschappelijke methode te verifiëren.

Onderzoeksresultaten: Wij hebben deze waarschuwingsmethodologie wereldwijd met groot succes getest. Een onderzoek bij 100 tankopslagterminals heeft bevestigd dat er een leemte bestond omdat 10 fundamentele technische en operationele vragen niet afdoende konden worden beantwoord.

Terminal Managers, Supervisors en personeel kunnen worden geïnstrueerd en opgeleid hoe zij kunnen werken met deze systemische aanpak door middel van informatietheorie om mogelijke gaten in het leerproces op te sporen door toepassing van de wet van de Requisite Variety a.k.a. Ashby's Law: Als volgt:

- Een situatie kan alleen worden beheerst als de variëteit van de controleur overeenkomt met de variëteit van de te beheersen situatie. (Verscheidenheid is informatie).

- Een opslagterminal genereert een enorme variëteit en probeert die op zijn eigen manier te beheersen door middel van controlelijsten, voorschriften en wetten.

- Als de variëteit niet wordt afgestemd, zullen systemen uit de hand lopen (entropie).

- Het is onmogelijk om elke variabele te beheersen, dus de meeste variëteit wordt geabsorbeerd door relaties met andere systemen.

- Dit betekent dat bij risicobeheersing alleen voldoende variëteit, d.w.z. informatie in een systeem, risico's kan absorberen of beheersen die voortkomen uit variëteit van buitenaf.

- Door gebruik te maken van terugkoppeling wordt deze informatie in het systeem gebracht, zodat het systeem zich voortdurend kan aanpassen en kan leren.

- Het is onmogelijk alle risico's te beheersen aangezien systemen fluctueren door informatie van een voortdurend veranderende variëteit in een niet-lineaire omgeving. Informatie vermindert de onzekerheid.

- Menselijke variëteit, omgevingsvariëteit, sociale variëteit, regelgevingsvariëteit veranderen voortdurend en kunnen dus alleen worden beheerst door het gebruik van real-time feedback (informatie).

- Dit betekent dat de mensen met de gecombineerde kennis, ervaring, deskundigheid, invloed, apparatuur, hulpmiddelen, enz. om dit te doen, gebruik moeten maken van alle relevante informatie als dempers, om variëteit te dempen en variëteitgeneratoren om variëteit op te bouwen.

- Verbetering van gezondheid en veiligheid wordt gecreëerd door variëteit toe te voegen in de vorm van PBM's, persoonlijke beschermingsmiddelen, gasdetectoren, enzovoort.

- Ethiek en MVO zijn vereisten die werken als informatiefeedbacklussen en zijn risicodempers.

Onze wereldwijde opleidingservaring en de feedback van klanten geven ons een goed inzicht in het risico van een informatietekort dat leidt tot lacunes in de kennis, waardoor de terminals kwetsbaar worden.

Ik realiseer me dat dit misschien verbijsterend is, maar het onderzoek om dit te staven is te vinden op onze website www.sustenance4all.com . Is dit de volgende stap in de optimalisering van de terminalprestaties? We weten dat het zo is. De potentiële toepassingen van dit systeem voor vroegtijdige waarschuwing zijn grensloos : operationele uitmuntendheid, HSEQ-controle en duurzaamheid, winstgevendheid en vertrouwen zijn afhankelijk van de kwaliteit en kwantiteit van de informatie. Het besturen van levende systemen (de terminal) kan van de natuur worden afgekeken. Eenvoudig! Maar eerst moeten de mensen begrijpen en worden geleerd hoe de natuur en de fysica ons beschermen.

An Early Warning System for our Industry to prevent risk.

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 06:54:00 GMT

When I visit a terminal’s control room I often observe that there is a whiteboard on the wall where, for example, information about needed repairs such as faulty valves, the phone on jetty 5 doesn’t work, rain water of floating roof tanks due to blocked roof drains or equipment out of operation, etcetera are recorded.

Deepwater Horizon; when you watch the movie you’ll notice that various equipment was not functioning. That information was ignored, the rest is history.

Shore tanks at the Cilacap Refinery, Indonesia were on fire this week. I worked there and understand that information deficit due to poor maintenance could have been the cause.

Information theory and cybernetics prove that information is physical. Bits of information are the fundamental building blocks of reality. Understanding what can be done by these amazing sciences is crucial for the longevity, continuity safety and sustainability of tank storage and refining operations.

Marine Storage Terminals and Refineries that fail to effectively implement information process and internal control systems are likely to face an information deficit at some stage resulting in degraded performance. Understanding how information deficits result in entropy or disorder is critical if you want to operate an effective and safe business.

We apply 3 universal laws of physics and cybernetics;

a. Information is preserved and can't be divorced nor erased from our physical reality.

b. Information Deficit (shortage) ≙ Entropy (disorder) ( ≙ per definition).

c. The Law of Requisite Variety

Terminal Managers and Supervisors are often not aware and try to break the 3 laws of physics which can't be broken without increased risk in the form of entropy (disorder). Terminal management and operations are dynamic and need information feedback in real time to be steered and maximally controlled. This can't be regulated or automated because of the physics of uncertainty and the reality of living and working in non linear universe, but can be ‘steered’ by information feedback

We designed an early warning system which measures potential information deficit (shortage) to predict vulnerability. What we offer to do is to access the quantity and quality of information in organisations to verify the potential level of exposure to risk by scientific method.

Research Results: We have tested this warning methodology worldwide with great success. A survey of 100 Marine Storage Terminals confirmed that a learning gap exists because 10 basic technical and operational questions could not be answered adequately.

Terminal Managers, Supervisors and staff can be instructed and trained how they can work with this systemic approach by information theory to detect possible learning gaps by applying the Law of Requisite Variety a.k.a. Ashby’s Law: As follows:

• A situation can only be controlled if the variety of the controller matches the variety of the situation to be controlled. (Variety being information).

• A storage terminal generates tremendous variety and tries to control it in its own way through checklists, regulations and laws.

• If variety is not matched, systems will spin out of control (entropy).

• It is impossible to control for every variable so most variety is absorbed through relationships with other systems.

• It means that in Risk Management, only enough variety, i.e. information in a system can absorb, or control risks originating from outside variety.

• By using feedback, this information is fed into the system to allow the system to adjust and learn constantly.

• It is impossible to control all risks as systems fluctuate by information from constant changing variety in a non linear environment. Information reduces uncertainty.

• Human variety, environmental variety, social variety, regulatory variety change all the time thus can only be governed by the use of real time feedback (information).

• This means to have the people with the combined knowledge, experience, expertise, influence, equipment, tools, etc. to do so, using all relevant information as attenuators, to damp variety and variety generators to build variety.

• Health and Safety improvement is created by adding variety in the form of PPE, Personal Protective Equipment, Gas detectors and so on.

• Ethics and CSR are requisites that work as information feedback loops and are risk attenuators.

Our world-wide training experience and feedback from customers gives us a great insight about the risk of information deficit resulting in knowledge gaps, which made the terminals vulnerable.

I realise this may be mind-boggling, but the research to back this up can be found on our website www.sustenance4all.com . Is this the next step of terminal performance optimisation? We know it is. The potential applications of this early warning system are endless: operational excellence, HSEQ control and sustainability, profitability and trust depend on the quality and quantity of information. Controlling living systems (the terminal) can be copied from nature. Easy! But first people must understand and thus can be taught how nature and physics protect us.

Sierra Leone, Gasoline Truck Explosion - CSR and the Oil and Gas Industry

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:39:00 GMT

A few days ago a gasoline truck collided with another truck in the city streets of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This is what CNN wrote: ' The explosion occurred after two vehicles collided on the highway while the fuel tanker was about to enter a nearby filling station to discharge its fuel, the NDMA said in a statement posted to Facebook on Saturday afternoon. Footage and eyewitnesses intimated that while the collision took place, both drivers came out of their vehicles and warned community residents to stay off the scene while trying to address a leakage emanating from the collision," the statement said. It added that while that was happening, "some community members rushed to the scene and took advantage of the leakage to scoop fuel and store it in nearby makeshift structures."

Because I happened to train a group of Freetown Petroleum Storage Terminal operators and loading masters last week, I wanted to express my condolences to those families who lost loved ones. I am writing this short blog on an assumed and probable analysis of this accident, because we need to ask this question: ‘seek knowledge of causes’. Because I have lived and worked in Africa several years, I can only conclude that 2nd cause is unawareness of the hazardous properties of gasoline, but that the principal first cause is poverty. I can only imagine that when gasoline is leaking out of a truck, right in front of your home, you may think; ‘Wah, today we can fill our tanks for free; so let’s get jerrycans!’

I can imagine a growing crowd thinking the very same, all rushing to the trucks to get their share of the loot, not understanding, because no one informed them, that the ignition temperature of gasoline vapour is about between 250 and 280 degrees Celsius and that the breaks temperature of trucks can reach 500 degrees Celsius. It can be assumed that the heat generated by the explosion i.e. fireball exceeded 8000 degrees Celsius. Perhaps someone lit a cigarette, or wore cheap static electric clothes, or messed with the wrenched steel, no one knows. Fact is that information about hazardous compounds is not shared with the general public, which I believe is the responsibility of all us working in the oil and gas sector. So, my call on you; let’s create a online information and learning platform to prevent such devastating accidents from happening in the future in countries less fortunate? Please sponsor education and awareness training programs thru our website www.tankterminaltraining.com ?

The Cassandra Effect: 'Why visionaries who can accurately predict looming disasters are often ignored’.

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:36:00 GMT

http://tankterminaltraining.blogspot.com/2021/10/cyber-attacks-cyber-ethics.html

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 06:41:52 GMT

http://tankterminaltraining.blogspot.com/2021/09/uncertainty-in-business.html

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:37:58 GMT

Uncertainty Principle

Usually I travel to the marine storage terminals of our customers worldwide. Before the Corona outbreak I averaged about ten on-location trainings per year. My current travel has been reduced to once or twice a year. As a matter of fact I just returned from Walvis Bay, Namibia where I updated two terminals by implementing the latest ISGOTT (sixth edition, 2020). It was not easy to organise on-site courses because of the unpredictability factor of politicised politicians who perhaps listen to their health advisors, but not to us, business people or entrepreneurs.

For example: I was invited to fly to Namibia, so I had to buy a ticket, apply for a visa, book a hotel, make an appointment to be PCR tested within 72 hours of departure. All this without any certainty that this assignment could be executed until the very last minute, only if I tested negative. This means that thousands of euros were spent without knowing that this money could be made back from this deal.

This uncertainty is highly distressing business potential and performance, because there are no guarantees to be able to go there and neither to be able to go home after the job is done. You are only allowed to fly if you are vaccinated, tested negative or prove you recovered from Covid 19.

Mathematics and physics talk about the Uncertainty Principle, which I’d like to use as a metaphor to describe our current business environment. Imagine you have a client who’d like to store oil in your tanks, but he won’t be able to confirm the availability of the oil until a government official approves it. Another example: my doctor checks my health regularly, but I can’t travel, because now my health must be proven by a flawed PCR test, so I can’t promise my client that I can be there when he needs me.

This uncertainty and dependence on politicians and those who benefit of their decisions is called collectivism, which is usually a predecessor for a totalitarian system. When you read the book The Great Reset by World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, you’ll see that this reset is not designed as a positive interdependent social system (benefitting everyone) but as a negative interdependent system (benefiting a few, but at the costs of…..).

Although the book highlights numerous global risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, ecological devastation, drinking water pollution and so on, they originated from the WEF Global Risks Reports, which I have been researching for the last decade. These environmental and human crises have not been mitigated prior to the Covid 19 outbreak, but were fundamentally caused by those who support the World Economic Forum. Did the WEF suddenly, because of the Covid situation, grow a consciousness to create a better world? Ask yourself this question, based on research.

My company is not the only one that is struggling to stay afloat in a business atmosphere I can no longer understand.

This is the latest in a series of articles by Arend van Campen, founder of TankTerminalTraining. More information on the company’s activities can be found at www.tankterminaltraining.com. Those interested in responding personally can contact him directly at arendvc@tankterminaltraining.com.

The future of our tank storage and transport industries hangs on a thin thread.

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 05:56:00 GMT

A moment of reflection when I look back and wonder what happened to our industry, our society, and our world last year. I wrote earlier that ‘business as usual’ won’t be likely nor possible any longer, but that a new, sustainable method is needed if we’d like to preserve our yields and social cohesion.

Venture capitalism is not that method. When Uber or Amazon grow more, most of our shops and businesses in our town centres will be closed. Hotels will suffer and professional taxi drivers will be left standing on the side of the road while a freelance Uber driver picks up the fare for half the price. How many people can we employ if hundreds of thousands of jobs can presently only be done by the cheapest laborers coming from Southeast Asia, Central America, and India? Shipowners profit from lower wages, but that profit can’t be sustainable unless ever more costs are cut. Several luxury cruise liners won’t survive the economic lockdowns taken by scared politicians who overlook proportionality and bring actual harm to the majority of their citizens.

But what about our oil, chemical transport, and the storage sector? How can we survive lower demand, less travel, less consumption because the average family will not be able to support any luxury for some time to come? A re-design is needed.

I know I may repeat myself once more. I foresee a need for communication, for cooperation, for conversation between all players in our industry and with those that are interdependent such as subcontractors, service and supply companies. This can be done in 2021. HCB will invite you to an online information sharing platform. With this collected information, we can then create a feedback loop map by which to predict the future for the sector.

Your input will be valuable as a risk management tool based on Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety. Thus, the needed variety to understand the risks and mitigate them are awareness, knowledge, information, capabilities, capacities and so-called attenuators and amplifiers. The complete, but flexible requisite variety – i.e. information by which to minimise risk – can be used to predict what will be happening on the short and long term. The technology and science to do this are available.

The time of mechanistic, empirical determinism is over. The world has become too complex (wicked) to be solved by outdated methods that have caused them. A new set of instruments are here. They are obtainable, but only for those entrepreneurs, CEOs and managers that are not afraid of change. Asking governments to bail them out, to subsidise green deals, or ask banks for a loan will not be focusing on ‘capability building’ but makes the industry dependent on politically ulterior motivation and unscrupulous banksters which increases risks.

TTT worked out how to implement these exciting new methods to achieve goals and reach destinations for any organisation so they can stabilise and stay sustainable, not just in the context of nature, but as self-organising living systems ensuring continuity. Perhaps you will read this and ask how? I wish you all a Happy New Year and a creative 2021.

This is the latest in a series of articles by Arend van Campen, founder of TankTerminalTraining. More information on the company’s activities can be found at www.tankterminaltraining.com . Those interested in responding personally can contact him directly at arendvc@tankterminaltraining.com.

Artificial or Human Intelligence?

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:08:00 GMT

LEARNING BY TRAINING

By Arend van Campen

SHRINKING THE TECHNOSPHERE

I hope that Dmitry Orlov won’t mind that I am borrowing the title of his book, but I wanted to express similar ideas and suggestions that he made in this amazing book. While 5G and other IT apps, drones and cameras may seem to simplify and speed up our lives, they also raise genuine concerns on dependency on the Grid, on electricity, power and on various rare earth materials such as coltan, lithium and cassiterite.

What it means in my view is that we may be eroding skills and interfering with the usual learning process of human beings. We could end up with a society where people can only do what a manual tells them to do. When decision-making is outsourced to automated systems, algorithms or blockchain technology, human awareness, knowledge or skills may become obsolete, perhaps reduced to his or her ability to switch on a system only, without being able to switch it off again.

I am teaching an online course on Cyber Ethics for the Globethics Institute in Geneva and with my fellow lecturer and our students we often discuss the unnatural demand for more technology and ask ourselves whether such Artificial Intelligence - AI - can be programmed ethically. A valid question is this: would AI be able to do the ‘right thing’? We all doubt that very much. Can such systems replace human perception or interpretation without them having a conscience or a soul?

Orlov calls for a preparation without the Grid and that people must never forget how to survive without technology. I am a proponent of this realism. While we now can follow and see what is happening with our offshore pumping station or can see our operators working in a control room in the desert from The Hague or London, we can’t truly control them should something go wrong. We have to rely on the people there, but what I observe AI is causing is a loss of trust. Can we have 100 per cent trust in automated systemic technology or shall we still train the people too?

I have noticed a drive towards maximum automation by marine storage terminals. Every year at the Tank Storage Awards ceremony it is a tech company that wins the prize. It seems that training and education focusing on human soft skills and practical ability is being grossly overlooked and may become insignificant. While millions are being invested in fully automated terminal systems, the knowledge of operating a terminal manually is being lost. This is not wise, because if AI ever loses power, it will stop functioning and thus will need people to take over again. But where are those people? Terminal managers are often skilled in automation, but perhaps have no clue how to line up a pipeline system manually. They give their loading masters computer tablets to fill in the blanks on digital safety checklists.

Perhaps it may work faster, but does it work better? Human beings created AI, but AI could take over any minute now.

Tank Storage Sustainability Initiative

Sun, 04 Oct 2020 05:51:00 GMT

The most important question we seek to answer is: ‘how can tank storage terminals and refineries sustain themselves in a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) and are not harming life, the environment, and social cohesion?Because we understand our planet as a living system which depend on interrelated networks, we use and need feedback (information) to verify and test sustainability. This knowledge allows organisations to understand that disorder in the form of unsustainability is inevitable if their foundation is not adaptive to change. We have to understand organisations as complex, adaptive organisations of communication and integrated and coherently functioning systems. Their long term existence depends on the connectivity and interaction of all activities and relationships. Enhanced sustainability is the way to be sustained for the long term. Regulators and governments demand more compliance to an ever growing number of rules and laws are deemed necessary to protect life and the environment, but can they be sustainable when they would have to be enforced? The criteria to sustain something can be listed as follows; an organisation needs to be viable. Its products or services must not be harmful to life, the environment and social cohesion. So, viability can be understood as sustainability too. Something that can’t live on, is considered non-viable thus unsustainable.You can now test your sustainability status for free and work with us to achieve maximum sustainability through cooperation, training and learning with and from other people. Just click on www.tssi.ch

Isgott 6 2020 Updated Edition to be published in July

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:27:00 GMT

Tank Terminals: The New Normal?

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:27:00 GMT

Linear or Non Linear Management Style? Tank Storage Awards 2020

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:56:00 GMT

Conversation & Risk Management

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:00:00 GMT

2020 The Year of Sustainability

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:32:00 GMT

Information = Energy

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 07:33:00 GMT

Energy and information obey the same laws of physics like everything else. Information is the energy to create order and structure, not only in the cosmos, but in organisations, business, politics, body and mind. Therefore, our training programs are based on information theory and cybernetics, because without using all relevant feedback a system is not able to learn and can’t be adapting in real time. This is a major breakthrough and is used by us as a non linear Risk Management tool of Complex Systems. The erasure, denial, ignoring of information increases disorder (entropy). Information reduces uncertainty. Just look at our world today and you understand why it is in chaos. Training your people will then become much easier; we can ask 'do you have enough information to manage and control your operations? We can determine what is there and understand what is needed?This makes training much more effective.

Why are we behaving the way we do?

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:33:00 GMT

Mind the learning gap

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:48:00 GMT

Training, reading, learning by feedback

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:17:00 GMT

Star Stuff

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:11:00 GMT

The Cassandra Effect

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:36:00 GMT

Oil and Gas Terminal Management & Control Training Program

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:57:00 GMT

Risk Mapping and Sustainable Organisations

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:54:00 GMT

We now offer a risk mapping tool that proves that sustainability and balance are in the best interest of both producer and user (client or buyer) and every stakeholder involved.Our service is to measure and map risks and advise organizations with scientific argumentation to always allow for ‘relevant' information. It means that stability and long term continuity of a business relation between two or more parties can only be achieved by constantly adjusting course and using updated information. So, if for example information about the danger of a certain chemical product is not disclosed, the organization selling it will become instable and vulnerable as well as the buyer or user. Therefore, it is in both parties mutual benefit to allow that all 'feedback' loops are shared and connected. If a feedback loop (withholding info) is severed on purpose (lying, denial) or from unawareness, a business or political model becomes uncontrollable and unsustainable. This reality applies to everything; politics, business, including the scientific community if it refuses objective and subjective insight. Reality is real and can only flourish within natural boundaries of functionality or as I have coined it ‘Realimiteit; within limits of reality’ . Rules can become guidelines. Only value driven creativity is sustainable. This means that business ethics and corporate social responsibility are just information too which one cannot afford to ignore as they are necessary to steer and maintain a sustainable course.

Chaos & the Butterfly Effect

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:35:00 GMT

HSEQ Success comes from Within

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:31:00 GMT

Predicting HSE risk and vulnerabilities by the TTT mapping method.

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:06:00 GMT

Stoc Expo Rotterdam 2018

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:29:00 GMT

Methods of Training

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMT

Teamwork

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:29:00 GMT

Sustainability (Column in HCB Magazine)

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:28:00 GMT

Information reduces Uncertainty

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:58:00 GMT

Building Drinking Water Terminals

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:32:00 GMT

About a year ago at the Storage Tanks conference in Rijswijk, Holland I spoke about the long term future of the tankterminal industry. I specifically mentioned that investing in the storage, provision, decontamination and distribution of clean, potable drinking water would be a future trend, not only from a sustainable world' perspective, but also it would make good business sense. The expected yield would be 3000 percent on investment (according the WTO).Therefore I am herewith launching a new campaign called 'Drinking Water for All' and seek support and participation of all the players in the storage industry and shipping supply chain. I invite Liquid bulk and gas Traders, Storage Terminal Operators, Ship Owners, Governments, NGO's, Financial Institutions, Private Investors, etc. to help us use the existing infrastructure and add fresh / drinking water shore tanks, pipelines, jetties and other needed facilities at or near their terminals to make sure diseases such as Cholera or Dysentery can be avoided, but even more importantly to prevent future armed conflict which in fact would be bad for business.The storage terminals brand name would be 'Water Terminals', plain and simple!