BIMCO's position on "reduction of administrative burden onboard ships" has been approved by the BIMCO Board of Directors.
The shipping industry uses significant resources at a substantial cost to comply with the administrative work imposed by IMO standards and regulations for safety at sea, maritime security, training certification and protection of the marine environment.
Recent projects, such as EfficienSea 2, have shown that the use of modern digital solutions can substantially reduce the administrative burden onboard ships. For example, the EfficienSea 2 project showed that a digital solution can reduce the time used for mandatory communication between ship and port by around 80%.
A reduction of the administrative burdens has a number of potential benefits for the industry, such as:
The IMO consultation in 2015 revealed that it is the accumulation of administrative requirements that becomes a burden, not each requirement in isolation. This is an important issue which IMO has addressed e.g. through the following:
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The Bunker Alerts are not intended to be an evaluation of overall bunker quality in the port or area concerned, but usually highlight a specific parameter within the fuel which has raised a quality issue.
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