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Tanker Shipping – crude oil tankers in the mixed zone
The “Wappen von Hamburg”
TANKER SHIPPING – CRUDE OIL TANKERS IN THE MIXED ZONE
Demand:
Oil demand growth is driven almost exclusively by the Asia/Pacific region, which is set to consume another 500,000 barrels a day on top of the 1 million barrels per day increase in 2012. Changing...
June 13th, 2013 | BIMCO, Markets, News, Statistics | Read More
New clause tackles hull fouling dilemma
Under most standard forms of time charter party an owner is obliged to maintain his vessel throughout the charter period. Such maintenance includes keeping the vessel’s hull and other underwater parts free of fouling. If the owners fail to maintain the vessel and, as a result, the vessel’s...
May 31st, 2013 | BIMCO | Read More
Mr John Denholm takes over BIMCO Presidency
The new president of BIMCO Mr John Denholm has identified environmental pressures facing the shipping industry as some of its most significant current challenges as he embarks upon his two year term. Speaking in Paris, as he took over the presidency of the shipping organisation from Mr Yudhishthir Khatau,...
May 30th, 2013 | BIMCO | Read More
Watchkeeper: Remembering who the customers are
It is a truth which is so manifestly obvious that it scarcely needs spelling out, that the “customer is always right”. Common sense might also suggest that if you wish to have a healthy and productive relationship with a customer, you do not put obstacles in his way, making it hard for him to do...
March 8th, 2013 | BIMCO | Read More
Change of Guard at BIMCO
Angus R. Frew
BIMCO is pleased to announce that its new Secretary General/CEO to succeed Mr Torben C. Skaanild on his retirement later this year will be Mr Angus R. Frew, currently Chief Executive of the UK Chamber of Shipping.
The appointment of Mr Frew was unanimously approved last week by...
March 5th, 2013 | BIMCO, News | Read More
Ballast Water Convention – Tripartite meetings shares concerns with implementation
ICS Chairman Masamichi Morooka
Representatives of the leading worldwide Associations of Shipbuilders, Classification Societies and Shipowners met in Busan, Korea for their annual Tripartite meeting hosted by the Korean Register of Shipping and KOSHIPA, the national shipbuilders association.
The meeting...
December 13th, 2012 | BIMCO, Headlines, Intercargo, Intermanager, International Chamber of Shipping | Read More
Unique Senior Leadership Forum to launch the BIMCO Shanghai Centre
The President of BIMCO Yudhishthir Khatau
BIMCO will be opening its Shanghai Centre office on the 25 February 2013 and in conjunction with the ceremony a unique “Senior Leadership Forum” will be held to further stimulate a mutually beneficial dialogue with the Chinese shipping community. The President...
November 14th, 2012 | BIMCO, Events | Read More
Watchkeeper: How to grow leaders
Leadership and management have been subjects that have been studiously avoided in many parts of the shipping industry, perhaps because of the mistaken idea that “leaders are born and not made” and that good management techniques are absorbed – rather like osmosis – from role models. Commercial...
November 7th, 2012 | BIMCO, HR, Maritime Education and Training | Read More
BIMCO publishes the POOLCON Tramp Ship Pooling Agreement
Grant Hunter
After nearly three years of development work, BIMCO has released the industry’s first standard pooling agreement for use by tramp pools operating in dry and liquid bulk trades primarily on a COA or spot basis.
The POOLCON agreement is designed to provide users with a comprehensive and...
October 18th, 2012 | BIMCO, News | Read More
INTERTANKO endorses BIMCO’s GUARDCON
INTERTANKO’s Documentary Committee provided valuable input to the work done by BIMCO on a standard contract for Private Armed Guards (GUARDCON). The Committee much appreciated the opportunity to comment on the early GUARDCON drafts and has been watching the development and use of GUARDCON with interest.
GUARDCON...
October 10th, 2012 | BIMCO, Intertanko, Piracy and Terrorism | Read More
BIMCO, in association with FATHOM, announces step-by-step guide to SEEMP implementation and management
Timely publication offers owners and operators a straightforward resource to enable planning for January 2013 deadline for SEEMP
LONDON – OCTOBER 10th, 2012: BIMCO announced today the release of ‘The Step-by-Step SEEMP Manual’ in association with Fathom. The manual, which can be utilised as a...
October 10th, 2012 | BIMCO, Books, Energy, Regulatory | Read More
Virtual Arrival Clause completes slow steaming project
At a meeting in London on 20 September, the drafting team who developed BIMCO’s Slow Steaming Clauses for Voyage and Time Charter Parties completed the third and final clause in the series – this time a provision dealing with virtual arrival. Building on the provisions set out in the Slow Steaming...
September 30th, 2012 | BIMCO, Chartering | Read More
Vice Admiral Brian Salerno USCG to become BIMCO’s US Liaison Officer
BIMCO announces today that the organisation’s new US Liaison Officer is to be Vice Admiral Brian Salerno, who has retired from the United States Coast Guard as its Deputy Commandant for Operations in USCG Headquarters, Washington DC. He will join BIMCO on 1 August 2012.
Vice Admiral Salerno took up...
June 25th, 2012 | BIMCO, News | Read More
BIMCO Summer Shipping School 2012 nearly sold out!
2012 marks the 10th Anniversary of the ever popular Summer Shipping School. With 44 participants from 19 countries signed up, we are near full capacity. This year will see participants from Argentina, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Greece, Greenland, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands,...
June 14th, 2012 | BIMCO, Maritime Education and Training | Read More
The turnaround in US oil output and its impact on tanker shipping
While the tanker market has been bracing itself for the possible closure of the Strait of Hormuz and an ensuing loss of 12 million barrels/day (13%) of world oil production, during the first half of 2012, a change of a much more subtle nature is already impacting tanker shipping. Oil production in the...
May 23rd, 2012 | BIMCO, Energy, Markets | Read More
Watchkeeper: The underwriter’s tale
The job of the marine underwriter, put simply and traditionally, is to ensure that more is taken in to the premium account than is paid out after claims. Aside from the complexities of reinsurance and laying off risks, it might seem a relatively undemanding task for the experienced insurer. But talk...
May 23rd, 2012 | BIMCO, Marine Insurance | Read More
Great interest in “Survival through Innovation” conference
Goh Chock Tong
A significant element of BIMCO’s Perspectives in Shipping Programme, and a major contribution to Singapore Maritime Week was the well-attended BIMCO conference on the theme of “Survival through Innovation”.
Officially opened by Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, this was a positive...
May 18th, 2012 | BIMCO | Read More
BIMCO – ISO join forces to establish PMSC standards
In a joint submission to the 90th session of IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee, BIMCO and ISO explain that work is underway to establish an ISO standard for the accreditation and certification of PMSCs (private maritime security companies) providing contracted armed security personnel (PCASP) on board...
May 8th, 2012 | BIMCO, Piracy and Terrorism | Read More
Come and Meet BIMCO at Posidonia 2012
07 May 2012 - Posidonia is again coming up in Greece in summer 2012 and with it a unique opportunity to connect with the Greek shipping environment and beyond.
BIMCO will again be represented during the whole week with its own stand at the new venue at to the exciting Metropolitan Expo Centre. BIMCO’s...
May 7th, 2012 | BIMCO, Conferences, Seminars, Forums, Exhibitions | Read More
BIMCO news
Prayer Day holiday
The Secretariat will be closed from Friday 4 May until Sunday 6 May 2012 for Prayer Day holiday.
The Secretariat will re-open on Monday 7 May 2012 at 08:30 Danish time.
April 30th, 2012 | BIMCO | Read More
Green light for tramp bulk cargo pooling agreement
Grant Hunter
BIMCO’s Documentary Committee, which met in Singapore on 23 April, has approved for publication a new standard pooling agreement for dry and liquid bulk cargoes, called POOLCON.
According to BIMCO’s Chief Officer for Legal and Contractual Affairs, Grant Hunter, “POOLCON is a voluntary...
April 26th, 2012 | BIMCO | Read More
Contract experts tackle topical issues at Singapore DC meeting
BIMCO’s Documentary Committee, chaired by Mr Karel Stes, gathered in Singapore for its spring meeting on 23 April. The Committee’s contract experts reviewed a number of new contracts and clauses dealing with a wide variety of topical subjects ranging from wind farms to solid bulk cargoes that can...
April 26th, 2012 | BIMCO | Read More
Singapore launch for new idea
Grant Hunter
According to Grant Hunter, who presented the launch of the new idea in Singapore “I think that it is a fitting testament to the original design concept of idea as an online system that it has stood the test of time to become the industry’s most widely used charter party editor....
April 26th, 2012 | BIMCO | Read More
BIMCO publishes much anticipated GUARDCON Contract
BIMCO publishes much anticipated GUARDCON Contract
BIMCO is pleased to announce the publication of the GUARDCON standard contract for the employment of security guards on vessels. This brand new contract has been developed to provide ship owners and private maritime security companies (PMSC) with a clearly...
March 28th, 2012 | BIMCO, News, Piracy and Terrorism | Read More
BIMCO at CMA 2012 – Time to Safe Yourself
Yudhishthir Khatau
BIMCO was again this year well represented at CMA. BIMCO President Yudhishthir Khatau spoke in the opening session and Secretary General Torben Skaanild spoke in a key session on the use of Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI).
Too many ships and too many yards – Time to Save YourSelf
BIMCO...
March 22nd, 2012 | BIMCO, Conferences, Seminars, Forums | Read More
