BIMCO gathers information on countries and individual ports that have restricted or banned discharge of wash water from exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) within their jurisdiction to exclusively support our members that may be using scrubbers to avoid falling foul of any local restrictions.
Read about the changes made for the 2023 season by Australia, Chile, Canada, US and New Zealand
Find out the review plan for updated CII regulations, including short-term GHG measures, initiated by IMO's MEPC 80, focusing on data gathering and analysis phases leading to MEPC 83 in 2025.
BIMCO has started a discussion with members with the aim to provide a set of definitions that are practical and clear to stakeholders in the shipping industry when discussing climate change.
United States requires all ships, U.S. flagged ships and foreign flagged ships that call on ports in the U.S, to ensure cyber risk management is appropriately addressed in their safety management system by the company's first annual verification of the Document of compliance after January 1, 2021. ... Please follow the link to continue reading.
Recording of BIMCO 15+15 weekly webinar. This week: Scratching the surface of CII
The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) has launched a survey to better understand some of the corruption risks faced by seafarers to make MACN able to better focus its future efforts.
Enclosed space deaths continue to be one of the biggest occupational hazards on board ships.
8 June is World Oceans Day, and BIMCO looks at what shipowners can do to help eliminate marine plastic litter.
From 15 June 2022, international ships arriving in Australia will have to comply with new requirements for managing biofouling. This will include biofouling reporting requirements prior to arriving in Australian territorial seas.
