About Heiwa Co Home About us Services Contact info News Order books Home page About Heiwa Co Services provided by Heiwa Co M/S Estonia The Coulombi Egg oil tanker Order books M/S Estonia in Swedish  Heiwa Co Heiwa Co assists shipowners, charterers, underwriters and administrations with ship safety, projects and ship management audits. Safety Safety is the probability of no accident, thus a technical, economical and human matter. High safety at sea starts with good ship structural design, good arrangements to ensure watertightness, easy to use procedures, equipment and means to operate the ship and to evacuate crew and passengers in an accident to minimize effects of human errors. Safety at sea is then a human question - to keep up the good arrangements and to follow the procedures. The cost of high technical safety is small - it is just to get the arrangements right from the beginning, e.g. the Coulombi Egg tanker. Keep it Simple, KIS, and you save money and improve safety! Right arrangements then simplifies for the ship's crew to maintain high safety. Heiwa Co has a lot of experience in these important fields of ship design and operation incl. crew training and motivation. Different ships are subject to different risks. Fishing vessels seem to be subject to the highest risks at sea - external weathertight doors may be open when fishing in severe weathers and may lead to flooding the inside spaces and sinking. Fishing vessels should therefore have extra, internal, weathertight doors to ensure sufficient bouyancy in the superstructure and deck house to survive. Safety is not just rules! Safety is also all new facts about past accidents that surface long after the accident, which many administrations tend to neglect. Thus Heiwa Co investigates all new facts about past accidents to learn from them. You can never learn too little from an old accident, thus the Titanic accident 1912 is still of interest. And this is the reason for the Heiwa Co interest in the M/S Estonia accident 1994 and the M/T Erika accident 1999.  Anders Björkman The managing director of Heiwa Co is Anders Björkman, M.Sc. Naval Architect and Marine Engineer, with more than 30 years experience of tanker and ferry design, construction and operations. Mr. Bjorkman has been a delegate to the IMO for various national administrations and one NGO and has been been a speaker at various Safety at Sea conferences. Mr. Bjorkman holds several patents concerned with ship safety. CV of Mr Björkman