Q 88 com A Working Solution

Q. 88. com A Working Solution

What is Q. 88. Com? • Q 88. com is primarily a tanker questionnaire generator by means of a website. • As tanker owners are aware, creating vessel questionnaires is a daunting task that, most times, has to be completed quickly and accurately on current and ever changing formats of charterers and oil terminals questionnaires in order to conclude a fixture.

• Many parties need access to the details in order to ensure the ship specifications meet the requirement of the trade and vetting criteria of the charterer, supplier and receiver. • Until now, this process has been time consuming and inaccurate. • Q 88. com allows tanker owners/managers to quickly and accurately fill out and distribute Oil Company and Terminal questionnaires on-line. • The information on a particular tanker is only entered once and is re-used to generate as many as 235 different questionnaires.

Background • On INTERTANKO’s initiative, INTERTANKO and Q 88. com have engaged in a co-operation to maximize the potential of the Q 88. com concept • This co-operation will give INTERTANKO’s Membership greater benefits through an integration of Q 88. com into INTERTANKO’s range of services to members and nonmembers.

Why does Q 88. com add Value to INTERTANKO Members?

• Q 88. com creates questionnaires faster and more accurately than it is possible to do manually and with most in-house systems. • Questionnaires are linked to the OCIMF HVPQ data so the vast majority of the answers are filled in automatically. Q 88. com has a built in alert system for expired certificates and approvals. • There is a standard format for filling in each questionnaire. Subscribers have access on a global basis, 24 hours a day. Subscribers have access to the latest questionnaires which is currently over 235).

• Q 88. com is developing the ability for subscribers to transmit the questionnaires directly into the issuing company’s database systems. • Q 88. com is XML-enabled which means that the questionnaires and the data behind it can be easily be integrated with the subscribers’ and their customers’ IT systems. • Completed questionnaires can be sent via email or fax directly from the web site. They can also be downloaded to a user’s computer or posted on the web site where third parties can access them via a password-protected login.

The Next Stage

• Q 88. com holds the potential of being developed into a standard platform for exchange of information in the tanker industry. • Of the various tools available to the tanker industry, Q 88. com is the only one that currently holds the potential for been developed into a standard tool for tanker information exchange. • Other segments of industry are working to develop similar tools, most notably OCIMF, but the concern is that there will be no means for the ship-owner to influence the information contained in and the management and operation of an oil company controlled vehicle.

• INTERTANKO has reached an agreement with Q. 88. com to develop Q 88. com into INTERTANKO’s range of services where it would find a natural home as an exceptionally useful tool for tanker owners. • The chance of creating an industry standard for exchange of information on tankers will be greatly enhanced by Q 88. com’s association with INTERTANKO, both in terms of a higher number of owners utilizing the system and through INTERTANKO’s support and endorsement. • The chance to influence what - and in which form - information about tankers would flow gives INTERTANKO a practical angle to work with, with regard to owner influenced transparency of information.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

• The service is integrated into INTERTANKO's range of services to members is therefore available to members at a discount. • All INTERTANKO members and associate members are offered a 10% discount on the standard price of the services provided by Q 88. com • All INTERTANKO members and associate members will receive a 50% discount on the Q 88. com set-up fee when signing up for the service.

• Existing customers of Q 88. com will continue to have the Q 88. com services provided according to their contracts with Q 88. com until the expiry of their contracts. • Upon expiry of existing contracts, existing customers will be entitled to a 10% discount on Q 88. com standard fees. Check out the features and prices at www. q 88. com and do not forget to inform Q. 88 that you are an INTERTANKO member when signing up.

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