WHAT IS TOP OF YOUR AGEnDA? ICS ADDRESSES KEY ISSUES AT ITS InTERnATIOnAL SHIPPInG CONFERENCE 2017
JAMAICA LAUNCHES ITS CANDIDACY FOR CATEGORY C SEAT ON THE IMO COUNCIL
The Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) officially launched its candidacy in the UK for a Category C seat on the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Council recently at a reception at the IMO.
Addressing the IMO Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, IMO delegates and specially invited guests, Director-General of the MAJ Rear Admiral Peter Brady hailed Jamaica’s candidature as “an opportunity to enhance Jamaica’s role on the international maritime stage.”
Welcoming this opportunity, His Excellency The High Commissioner for Jamaica to the UK Seth George Ramocan, outlined a number of reasons Jamaica deserves its seat around the Council table.
These include: • Representing the interests of fellow SIDs and LDCs. • Being committed to the major
international conventions for safety and pollution prevention, as well as incorporating these conventions into domestic legislation.
• Standing by its pledge to educate and train professional seafarers at the Caribbean. Maritime University through the strict standards required by the STCW Convention.
• Participating in the IMO GloBALLAST project as a Lead Partner Country for the Caribbean Region.
• Since the ISPS Code came into force in 2004, Jamaican port facilities have been continually recognised by the US Coast Guard for best practice measures.
• Hosting the Secretariat of the Caribbean MOU on Port State Control.
• The Jamaica maritime sector has played an important role in the increase in maritime traffic Jamaica is experiencing, including from the cruise sector.
In his closing statement, His Excellency said: “Against this background and our track record, Jamaica can contribute meaningfully to the delivery of the IMO’s mission in its capacity as a conscious SIDs Council member and also to significantly represent the community of nations of the LDCs. As a maritime leader in the Caribbean we therefore seek your support for our candidature to the Council in Category C, when we vote in December.”
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The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) will address some of the biggest concerns in modern shipping at its annual conference this year, to be held during London International Shipping Week (LISW). Secretary-General to the IMO, Kitack Lim, and ICS Chairman, Esben Poulsson, will be spearheading discussions, following what will have been be an eventful two months in the industry’s legislative calendar.
ICS’s flagship International Shipping Conference will take place on Wednesday 13th September at The British Library, and will focus clearly on an agenda of key issues that are at the forefront of shipping today: CO2 reduction and environmental regulation, the maintenance of free trade and the role of the seafarer.
These will be debated by leaders engaged at the centre of these topics, including Magda Kopczynska, the European Commission’s Director of Maritime Transport; Jeff Lantz of the U.S Coast Guard, Sveinung Oftedal, Norway (who is now chair of the IMO working group developing a CO2 reduction strategy for shipping); Jan Hofmann from the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, and Jacqueline Smith of the ITF seafarers’ union. Joining the debate, among many others, will be leading members of the ICS Board including John Adams (Bahamas), John C Lyras (Greece), Emanuele Grimaldi (Italy) and Svein Steimler (Japan).
There will a strong focus on panel discussion, and four main sessions have been announced: ‘CO2 Reduction: Developing the IMO Road Map’; ‘new Environmental Regulation: The Costs of Compliance’; ‘Maintaining Free Trade: Dusk or new Dawn?’’ and ‘Decent Work for Seafarers: Are we Delivering?’.
In addition, ICS expects to make an important announcement about its future direction as the industry’s principal trade association for ship operators.
To book tickets please contact:
Jade.Smith@
ics-shipping.org
BIMCO JOInS FORCES WITH SHIPDEx TO PUSH DIGITALISATIOn OF DATA
The move will help to drive efficiency, providing standardised information, reducing the administrative burden for ships and administrations
BIMCO and Shipdex™ (
www.shipdex.com) have signed an agreement to support the development and exchange of technical and logistic data across the shipping community, and to include BIMCO as an executive member of Shipdex™ steering committee.
The agreement was signed at BIMCO Head office, Copenhagen by Lars Robert Pedersen, BIMCO Deputy Secretary General and representatives from the original nine executive members – Grimaldi Group S.P.A., Mastermind Shipmanagement Ltd., Alfa Laval Tumba AB, MacGregor Group AB, Man Diesel & Turbo SE, Shipdex Consulting Ltd, Yanmar Company Ltd., G&C Shipping Ltd. and Rolls Royce PLC.
The two organisations share a common interest to promote the standardisation and digitalisation of data exchange in the shipping industry, with recently elected BIMCO President Anastasios Papagiannopoulos, setting it out as a key theme for his presidential term.
The Shipdex™ Protocol is designed to be used by shipowners, shipyards, manufacturers, classification societies and application service providers, it uses a common source database to store, retrieve, publish and exchange technical and logistic data across the shipping community. Instruction manuals, maintenance plans and spare parts catalogues can be shared between any company or organization that wishes to use it, in a neutral and standardized format, safely and securely.
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