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Including holidays, working hours plus much moreBIMCO Shipping KPI
The BIMCO Shipping KPI is a global shipping industry tool for defining, measuring and reporting information on ship performance.
Shipping KPI System
Environment
- BIMCO's advice on ship recycling
- Biofouling National initiatives
- Decoupling of world trade and emissions is a reality for shipping
- The impossible mission of improving operational efficiency year after year
- CIMAC guideline: marine fuel handling in connection to stability and compatibility
- Sulphur emission control areas and national sulphur emission restrictions
- LIST OF LOCAL RESTRICTIONS ON THE DISCHARGE OF SCRUBBER WASH WATER
- Biofouling Hull Cleaning
- Guidance on low-sulphur fuel oil now available
- BIMCO's position on ballast water management
- BIMCO's position on marine plastic litter
- USCG Ballast Water Management information
- BIMCO's position on biofouling management
- Shipping industry should brace for underwater regulation
- Hull fouling clause for time charter parties
- Is on board fuel blending allowed?
- BIMCO's position on air pollution
- BIMCO advises shipowners to check ballast water system installation plans
- The discord between MARPOL and commercial fuel samples interpreted
- BIMCO's position on underwater radiated noise
- BIMCO's position ongreenhouse gases (GHG) emissions
- Oily water separator guide
- Introduction to Biofouling
- Ballast water management
- CIMAC Guideline: The Interpretation of Marine Fuel Analysis Test Results
- IMO publishes revised fuel sampling guidelines
- Fuel switching – safety alert
- CIMAC Guideline: ISO 8217:2017 - FAQ
- Climate Change Glossary
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Safety
- Straits of Malacca and Singapore: Risks of severe legal actions against ships
- Industry associations seek input to increase the safety of anchoring
- Australian Port State Control (PSC)
- BIMCO's position on safe and efficient navigation
- COVID-19; Implications on statutory ship certificates, surveys, inspections and audits
- Industry recommendations for ECDIS familiarisation
- Industry guidance and recommendations for ECDIS training
- Electronic navigation needs standardisation to stay safe
- Entry into enclosed spaces
- FAQ - Port State Control
- Industry guidance to shipowners for selecting new or replacement on-load lifeboat release hooks
- Inland Waters Navigation and Information
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- List of certificates and documents required to be carried on board ships
- Paris MoU PSC - New Inspection Regime
- 2011 Procedures for Port State control
- Paris MoU Port State Control deficiency codes
- Port State control simplified guidance
- SeaHealth - Mooring Do it Safe
- United States Coast Guard Port State Control Inspections
- WHO Handbook for Inspection of Ships and Issuance of Ship Sanitation Certificates
- Together in Safety
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Security
- United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988
- Best Management Practices to Deter Piracy and Enhance Maritime Security in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea Best Management Practices – BMP5
- BMP West Africa
- BIMCO guidance on stowaways
- BIMCO security guidelines: "From capture to release"
- BIMCO security guidelines: "From capture to release" - Executive summary
- BIMCO's Guidelines on Ship and Voyage Specific Risk Assessment
- BIMCO's position on cyber security
- BIMCO's position on piracy, armed robbery and other violent criminal acts at sea
- BIMCO's position on smuggling
- Customs -Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT)
- Cyber compliance in the crosshairs
- Cyber-security - The case for hardened defences
- Do you know what’s on board your ship? Probably not.
- Enough talking: five ways to fight piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
- EU Advance Cargo Declaration
- EU Authorised Economic Operator (AEO)
- Global Counter Piracy Guidance for Companies, Masters and Seafarers
- Good practice guide for the humanitarian support of seafarers and their families
- Guidance relating to the Construction and Use of Citadels
- Guidance regarding Private Maritime Security Contractors (incl. Armed Guards)
- The Gulf of Guinea Declaration on Suppression of Piracy
- IMO guidance - preparation of a company and crew for the contingency of a hijack
- Industry releasable threat assessments & bulletins
- Introduction to drug smuggling
- SOLAS chapter XI-2 and the ISPS Code
- Migrant smuggling
- Migration
- ATP-02.1 Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS)
- Incident alert from ReCAAP
- Piracy reports
- Preventing and suppressing piracy and armed robbery against ships
- Prevention of wildlife smuggling by sea
- Shipping must not underestimate the threat to its cyber security
- Shore leave and access to ships in US ports
- Case study: Stowaways on board - How did they get there?
- US TWIC regulations modified – non-US personnel now also eligible to apply
- Unlicensed weapons could compromise GUARDCON
- US Importer Security Filing (formerly known as "10+2")
- War risks - Hull insurance against war, piracy, terrorism and related perils
- What are Customs Co-operation Agreements (CCAs)?
- Nine pirates convicted in Togo
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Crew support
- COVID-19 implementation measures for sea transport
- Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) - A Quick Summary
- Amendments (2014) to MLC, 2006 - Financial Security and Shipowners' Liability
- WHO Handbook for Inspection of Ships and Issuance of Ship Sanitation Certificates
- Infectious or contagious diseases
- Amendments (2016) to MLC, 2006 - Shipboard Harassment/Bullying and MLC Certificate Extension
- Amendments (2018) to MLC, 2006 – Impact on SEA, Wages and Repatriation in Piracy and Armed Robbery situations.
- Amendments 2022 to MLC, 2006 and resolutions adopted
- Cannabis: calls for review of policies on board
- Consolidated MLC Text 2019
- COVID-19 Seafarers' Mental Health
- COVID-19 quick guidance
- Guidelines on Inspections and implementation of occupational safety health provisions
- Good practice guide for shipping companies and manning agencies
- MLC, 2006: Title 1 Minimum requirements for seafarers to work on a ship
- MLC, 2006: Title 2 Conditions of employment
- MLC, 2006: Title 3 Accommodation, recreational facilities, food and catering
- MLC, 2006: Title 4 Health protection, medical care, welfare and social security protection
- MLC, 2006: Title 5 Compliance and enforcement
- Textbook of Maritime Health
- WHO handbook on management of public health events on board ships
- BIMCO's position on the fair treatment of seafarers
- Flag state legislation on MLC, 2006
- General Information and Guidance
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Holiday calendar
BIMCO's Holiday Calendar covers general holidays in over 150 countries, plus local holidays and working hours in more than 680 ports around the world.
Related event
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- London,United Kingdom
- 19 April, 2023
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