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A new module containing information on audits carried out under the IMO Member State Audit Scheme has been launched on IMO’s web-based information portal, GISIS (the Global Integrated Shipping Information System).The IMO Member State Audit Scheme is intended to provide an audited Member State with a comprehensive and objective assessment of how effectively it administers and implements mandatory IMO instruments covered by the scheme. Currently voluntary, the scheme will become mandatory…

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Jakarta, bkinews – In order to increase the capacity and capability of human resources of maritime stakeholders, The Indonesia Classification Society/BKI regularly conducts special training to the internal auditor officer candidate. “BKI regularly provide training to the internal auditor officers candidate for the implementation of the ISPS Code of port industry and shipping company in Indonesia,” said Corporate Communications BKI, Sjaifuddin Tahir in Jakarta, Wednesday (09/08/2015). He…

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Jakarta, bkinews (03/09/2015) – Safety of life at sea is a key priority which always need to be considered by the shipping industry stakeholders especially the owner of the ship, government, the classification society, the owner of cargo ship, crew, captain and so on. “When ship has been sailed, it was not be associated with classification society as a non-govermental organization in the event of an accident and cause loss of property of ship, human and environmental damage”…

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Jakarta, bkinews – PT Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia held the In-House Training “New Building Survey Batch I” was started Tuesday (18/8) untill Friday (21/8) in BKI Building Lt. 6. Jl Yos Sudarso 38-40 North Jakarta. One of the aim of training is to improve the capacity of surveyor PT BKI on New Ship Building. According to Annual Report Book, the class admission of new Building has a sense that the new ships are classified into class and built with the Supervision of the Company as a…

Tanggal August 21, 2015

Jakarta, bkinews – PT Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia (Persero) / BKI signed a Memorandum of Understanding / MoU) with the National Development and Application of Technology / BPPT, Friday (21/8/2015). The MoU contains the assessment and application of technology in order to support the improvement program of the competitiveness of the national shipping industry. “This is one of the momentum BKI which is strengthening to demonstrate the existence of BKI in order to develop better in the maritime…

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Tanggal July 10, 2015

President Director of BKI, Mr. Rudiyanto through the BKI Corporate Communication Mr. Sjaifuddin Thahir, congratulated for Mr. Lim Ki-tack on his election as the new IMO Secretary General starting from 1 January 2016. Mr. Lim Ki-tack from South Korea, the president of the Busan Port Authority, has been elected as the secretary general of the IMO at The session 114 of IMO Council. In an interview with the CEO of Maritime on May 2015, Lim said has four main goals for his tenure at the IMO. Lim…

Tanggal July 09, 2015

It was housed in a building Neptune Navy Headquarters Cilangkap East Jakarta, on July 8, 2015, BKI, represented by the President Director of BKI, Mr. Rudiyanto and Navy represented by Rear Admiral Ir. Harry Pratomo, signing a charter agreement (PKB) and Cooperation Agreement (PKS). PKB and PKS with regard to the improvement and development of individual resources in the field of verification of the feasibility of the Navy ships.Attending on the occasion, Commissioner of BKI, Soekatno, Director…

Tanggal July 07, 2015

New Zealand’s authorities suspended the search for a 52-year-old Filipino seafarer who fell off the container ship Madinah in the early June, while the vessel was entering Lyttelton Harbour, according to local media. A Westpac Rescue helicopter, search boats, and commercial vessels searching for the missing seaman were stood down three and a half hours after the man went overboard. There has been no reported sightings of the missing seafarer thus…

Tanggal July 07, 2015

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has won a KRW 5.3 trillion (USD 4.7 billion) contract to build three floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities in Europe for Shell Gas & Power Developments B.V. The contract signed today covers only a part of production costs, according to SHI. A basic FEED (Front-End Engineering and Design) contract for topsides for the FLNGs will be signed in the second half of 2016. The three FLNGs are…

Tanggal July 07, 2015

Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia commemorating the 51st anniversary on 1 July 2015 by sharing the wisdom of Ramadhan 1436 H with its employees and about 70 orphans from surrounding neighborhood in the event of collectively breaking the fast and anniversary celebration. Besides giving away donations to orphans the collectively breaking the fast event also filled with brief discourse of Ramadhan wisdom by KH Zulfa Mustofa of the Indonesian Ulama Council. The collectively breaking the fast event which…

Tanggal July 06, 2015

South Korea’s Lim Ki-tack has today been elected to be the next Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization at the IMO Headquarters in London. In the final round of voting, Lim Ki-tack was selected over Andreas Nordseth, Director General of the Danish Maritime Authority. Lim Ki-tack will take over the position from the current Secretary-General, Koji Sekimizu, at the end of this year. Lim Ki-tack has been active within IMO since 1986. From 1992,…

Tanggal July 06, 2015

The heads of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) plan to establishment of an inter-agency platform for information sharing on unsafe mixed migration by sea. The platform, the establishment of which stems from a growing number of migrant deaths at sea, would also be in charge of disseminating information material on the dangers of such migration, in collaboration with other interested agencies. IMO…

Tanggal July 06, 2015

China’s Beihai Rescue Bureau coordinated the rescue of 26 crew members from five vessels hit by bursts of high winds in Liaodong Bay, the Bohai Sea last week. Two of the vessels reportedly sank. Beihai Rescue Bureau received the first distress call from a cargo vessel identified as the 188-meter-long, China-flagged freighter Yuxinhuo 13396. The five crew members on board the freighter issued a distress signal after the vessel started taking on water. The crewmen were airlifted…

Tanggal July 03, 2015

The newbuilding price index has been in decline since June 2014, and the trend is likely to continue until next year, the South Korean daily Business Korea quoted US investment firm Morgan Stanley as saying. The newbuilding price index peaked at 140 in June last year, before steadily sliding and reaching 132 as of June 19 this year. Worryingly, the decline has been more rapid this year, with the index falling from 137.5 recorded in January, to 132.9 in…

Tanggal July 03, 2015

Japan has declared its intent to continue hunting whales in the Southern Ocean regardless of the conclusion of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that Japan failed to demonstrate any need to hunt whales for scientific research. Under the NEWREP-A proposal, Japan plans to kill 3,996 minke whales over the next 12 years for “lethal research,” IWC’s Scientific Committee said. At a press conference in Tokyo on Friday following the release of the IWC…

Tanggal July 03, 2015

It is important to distinguish between armed robbery and piracy when reporting incidents in South East Asia waters, says the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) which has commissioned a study to determine the scale of threat posed to seafarers in the area. The findings reveal that in the first quarter of this year the vast majority of incidents in this region fall under the category of armed robbery (which is within the territorial waters and under the jurisdiction of the sovereign…

Tanggal June 18, 2015

As a state-owned classification society, BKI -via Corporate Communication – Sjaifuddin Thahir, wish to participate on matters related to the safety of Indonesia’s marine biodiversity, including application of International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (Ballast Water Management Convention) and the 2011 Biofouling Guidelines. BKI with Indonesia Government to role in creating a national regulatory framework for effective…

Tanggal June 16, 2015

InterManager, the international trade association of ship managers, has set its sights on examining two key areas which could have significant benefits for the shipping industry. First in its list of priorities is an investigation of minimum manning levels for different types of vessels trading on different trade routes and carrying different cargo types. The aim is to determine whether and how these need to be reviewed, better understood for their implications to safety and…

Tanggal June 16, 2015

Amendments to increase the limits of liability in the 1996 Protocol to amend the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 (LLMC Protocol 1996) entered into force on June 8, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) reports. The amendments raised the amount claimable for loss of life or personal injury on ships (not exceeding 2,000 gross tonnage) to 3.02 million Special Drawing Rights (SDR), up from 2 million SDR. For larger ships, the following…

Tanggal June 16, 2015

The world’s first system to passively clean up plastic pollution from the world’s oceans is to be deployed in 2016, Boyan Slat, 20-year old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup announced at Asia’s largest technology conference – Seoul Digital Forum, South-Korea. The array is projected to be deployed in Q2 2016. The feasibility of deployment, off the coast of Tsushima, an island located in the waters between Japan and South Korea is currently being…

Tanggal June 10, 2015

Shipowners Club headquartered in London – United Kingdom, represented by Mr. Jeremy Slater – Underwriting Manager, and Capt. Hari Subramanian – Deputy Manager – Loss Prevention as well as SPICA Services (Indonesia) represented by Mr. Bagus Parmanto conduct a visit to the headquarters of Indonesian Classification Society (BKI) on June 10, 2015. The presence of Shipowners Club London was met by Mr. Saifuddin Wijaya- BKI Corporate Secretary, Sjaifuddin Thahir- BKI Corporate Communications and…

Tanggal June 03, 2015

BKI was represented by President Director, Rudiyanto (ACS Chairman) and Corporate Communication,-Sjaifuddin Thahir (ACS TMG Chairman) confirms that ACS members as a organisation only has a capacity of classification society and as an organization recognized by the government, always provide support to members of ASF related to safety ships, and special precautions to be taken by ASF in facing the piracy discussed in the ASF-24. ASF noted the concern with the increasing number of…

Tanggal June 03, 2015

BKI as Chairman of ACS, -Mr. Rudiyanto who is also CEO of BKI and ACS TMG chairman, – Sjaifuddin Thahir attend the meetingof shipowners throughout Asia 24th on 18 to 19 May 2015 at Haevichi Hotel & Resort Jeju Island- South Korea. BKI as chairman of ACS attending the 24th annual meeting of the entire Asian shipowners, known as ASF-AGM was held in Jeju Island, South Korea on 18-19 May 2015, with the host is the Korea Shipowners Association (Korean Shipowners Association (KSA) ). While…

Tanggal May 31, 2015

Indonesia Classification Society through Corporate Communication – Sjaifuddin Tahir deliver that statistics show that 70% to 90% of accidents are caused by ships ‘human error’. There is a special ‘relationship’ between ship and its management. Thus, ‘the human element’ must be of a high standard. ISM code introduced by IMO to address this problem. ISM to be effective and as part of Chapter IX of SOLAS, the Convention set up about 96% of world tonnage. ISM’s…

Tanggal May 26, 2015

A new CE Delft study has revealed that many recently constructed ships already meet the International Maritime Organisation’s design efficiency standard for 2020, indicating that there is significant room for tightening these standards when the IMO meets next week, European environmental lobby group Transport & Environment said. The study, commissioned by Brussels based NGOs Seas at Risk and Transport & Environment, calculated the Estimated Index Values (EIVs) of…

Tanggal May 26, 2015

The sixteen sailors who have been left to their own devices for months after their vessel MT Surya Kuber got seized in Bahrain due to unpaid debts are finally going to return to their homes. Fourteen Indian sailors left Bahrain on Monday night, whereas the two remaining crew members from Myanmar are due to depart today, writes the Gulf Daily News from Bahrain. The crude oil tanker was banned by a court order in February from leaving the country as its Singapore-based owner…

Tanggal May 26, 2015

Eight pirates armed with guns boarded a Singapore-registered petroleum product tanker while under way in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on May 2nd, piracy watchdog ReCAAP ISC informed. The pirates ordered the Ocean Energy crew to anchor off Port Dickson, where a barge came alongside to siphon the vessel’s cargo. Whilst the master and crew were locked away, 2,023 tons of gas oil was discharged to the barge, ReCAAP said. The perpetrators left the vessel…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

President Director of Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia Rudiyanto who is also the Chairman of the Asian Classification Societies (ACS) together with the ACS Secretary Kim Tae Woo, and the ACS Technical Management Group (TMG) Chairman Sjaifuddin Tahir attend the 24th Asian Shipowners Forum (ASF) meeting in Jeju Island, South Korea, 18-20 May 2015. Issues becoming major concern in this year ASF annual meeting including the increase number of ship piracy and arm robbery in Asia, especially in Malacca and…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) should not ratify the Ballast Water Management Convention if there is no realistic implementation schedule that recognises the timetable for US type-approved Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) to be available in sufficient quantities, international shipping organisations have warned. The Round Table (RT) of International Shipping Organisations (comprising BIMCO, the International Chamber of Shipping, Intercargo and…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Dredging International Asia Pacific-Daelim Joint Venture (DDJV) signed the contract for the USD 1.83 billion Tuas Terminal Phase 1 Reclamation, Wharf Construction and Dredging Project. The Tuas Terminal Phase 1 project entails the construction of a new port terminal with 20 deep-water berths having a total capacity of 20 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per annum. DDJV will be responsible for the erection…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

The trend in maritime security is one of growing complacency, the Chief Operating Officer of UK maritime security firm MAST Gerry Northwood warned speaking at the Global Shipping Trends and Trade Patterns conference in London on April 29th. “The problem is that incidents of piracy are not infrequent, and I often see the under reporting and misreporting of incidents. All maritime crime is piracy; we should not hide behind the legal distinction of armed robbery in territorial…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

China COSCO Holdings managed to slash its quarterly annual loss by 45.3%, and is trying to move forward with the previously announced ore transportation agreement with Brazil’s mining corporation Vale. China COSCO ended the first three months of 2015 with a RMB 1.03 billion (USD 166 million) loss, a RMB 877 million improvement compared to the same period a year earlier. China COSCO says that it managed to reduce the loss by disposing of 22 older vessels, which was the…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

The Philippines’ argument that China’s construction on the islands and reefs in the South China Sea would cause damage to the Philippines is utterly unjustifiable, China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei said yesterday while addressing the media. The Phillippines Foreign Affairs Ministry accused China of having destroyed 300 hectares of coral reef systems in the South China Sea/ West Philippine Sea, leading to economic losses to coastal states…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

World’s oceans are worth at least USD 24 trillion, but numerous threats are driving this economic powerhouse towards collapse, according to an international NGO World Wildlife Fund. The valuation is contained in a new WWF report: ‘Reviving the Ocean Economy: The case for action – 2015,’ which ranks the oceans as the seventh largest economy in the world if put into terms of Gross Domestic Product, with an annual value of goods and services…

Tanggal May 19, 2015

An international maritime union Nautilus International has criticised a South Korean appeals court’s decision to sentence the captain of the ferry Sewol to life imprisonment after ruling that he was guilty of homicide. The high court rejected an appeal by Lee Joon-seok, who was in command of the ferry when it sank in April 2014 with the loss of more than 300 lives, mostly children. The master had been found guilty in November of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years,…

Tanggal May 12, 2015

World’s top shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) posted a widened net loss in the first quarter of 2015 recording a net loss of KRW 125.2 billion (USD 117 million), 37.6 % drop year-on-year. HHI said that its shipbuilding activity was considerably affected by a slump in newbuilding orders coupled with its restructuring activities aimed at cutting costs. The shipbuilder recorded 9.6 pct fall in sales amounting to KRW 12.2 trillion and an operating loss of KRW…

Tanggal May 12, 2015

South Korea’s appeals court found the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank in April last year killing 304 people guilty of homicide and sentenced him to life in prison, Bloomberg reports. Back in November, the Gwangju District Court dismissed homicide charges against the 69-year-old Lee Joon-seok, but found him guilty of gross negligence and sentenced him to 36 years in prison. Gwangju High Court overruled the lower court’s decision to acquit Lee…

Tanggal May 11, 2015

The United States Coast Guard said it has detained the 738-foot bulker Kind Seas, after significant safety violations were found during an inspection in Kalama, Washington, Friday. Vessel inspectors from the Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in Portland discovered the discrepancies during a routine inspection of the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, the USCG informed. Safety violations were related to a complete failure of the emergency generator, which provides power to emergency…

Tanggal May 11, 2015

The number of ferry deaths in Southeast Asia recorded over the recent period is unacceptable in the 21st century, said Head of International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Public Information Services Lee Adamson while speaking to UN Radio. The entire region is characterized by countries that are groups of islands, therefore the ferries are vital links for internal commerce and passenger transport, Adamson said while speaking ahead of IMO’s‪ Ferry…

Tanggal May 08, 2015

Angela Yu–Colombia has freed Da Dan Xia, COSCO Shipping’s heavy-lift vessel involved in an illegal arms transport, and has ordered the ship to head to Havana, Cuba, on 21 April. The ship was detained in Cartagena by Colombian authorities in March this year for carrying illegal weapons. Approximately 100 tonnes of gunpowder, 2.6 million detonators, 99 projectiles, and about 3,000 cannon shells were found on the Hong Kong-flagged ship, which was bound for Cuba, according to local…

Tanggal May 08, 2015

Angela Yu–Singapore-headquartered anti-piracy watchdog ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre (ReCAAP ISC) reported a total of 38 piracy and armed robbery incidents against ships in the first quarter of 2015. Three of these were attempted incidents. The number of reported incidents in the first quarter of 2015 increased 23.7% from the lowest figure – 29 incidents – reported during the same period in 2013. Of the 38 incidents, four were piracy incidents, all reported in the South China…

Tanggal May 07, 2015

Crystal Chan–The maritime industry has two main challenges today, says Japanese classification society ClassNK, and its new research centre in Singapore aims to address both. The society has opened the Global Research and Innovation Centre (GRIC) to join industry, academia, and government agencies in Singapore and from around the world in research projects. Speaking at a press conference in Singapore today, ClassNK executive vice president Tetsuya Kinoshita said, “One challenge…

Tanggal May 07, 2015

Michael Jones–Panamax containerships are difficult to employ in today’s competitive market. To ensure and extend the profitable operation of these ships, Reederei NSB developed a concept to widen a containership rather than lengthen it. Widening, the first of its kind worldwide, increases the teu capacity by more than 20%, and the resulting IMO Energy Efficiency Design Index will equal that of a newbuilding. The ship can carry more cargo and has greater stability while operating…

Tanggal May 07, 2015

Crystal Chan–Orders at Japanese shipyards fell 36% year on year (y/y) in February, continuing its descent as investment appetite for newbuildings has been affected by the sluggish dry bulk market. Figures from the Japan Ship Exporters’ Association (JSEA) showed its member yards clinched 30 export orders totalling 1,522,900 gt in March 2015, down from 47 export orders of 1,885,291 gt y/y. Japanese yards specialise in building dry bulk carriers. The Baltic Dry…

Tanggal May 07, 2015

Dexter Yan–LNG-powered mega container ships could receive LNG bunkering in Singapore, near the Suez area, and Rotterdam in future if they are deployed in the Asia Pacific-North Europe trade, according to DNV GL. Purely LNG-powered vessels are able to load LNG fuel that could support approximately half the round trip for the vessels in the trade, Gerd-Michael Wuersig, DNV GL’s director for LNG-fuelled ships and senior principal specialist for business development, told IHS…

Tanggal May 07, 2015

Crystal Chan–The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has started developing a new-generation vessel traffic management system to enable smooth and efficient navigation in the Singapore Strait. This was announced by MPA chairman Lucien Wong at the International Chemical and Oil Pollution Conference and Exhibition in Singapore on 22 April. The Straits of Malacca and Singapore are two of the world’s busiest and vital shipping lanes, being at the crossroads of…

Tanggal May 06, 2015

Sjaifuddin Thahir – Corporate Communication BKI quote that in a bid to support President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s lofty maritime axis plan, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) has instructed banks to increase credit for the sector by 50 per cent to 128 trillion rupiah (S$13.3 billion) this year, an official says. OJK deputy commissioner for banking supervision, Irwan Lubis, said the financial authority wanted credit for the maritime sector to increase by 43 trillion rupiah this year to…

Tanggal May 05, 2015

Installation of panic buttons on board vessels transiting piracy-infested Malacca Strait and neighboring waters could be one of the steps that would enable navies to boost their efficiency in responding to pirate attacks, according to a Thai Navy admiral. Namely, by installing the panic buttons shipowners would enable crews to give out their exact location when sounding the alarm and thus naval resources could be rushed to the scene more quickly. The proposal…

Tanggal May 05, 2015

South Korea has approved plans to raise the Sewol ferry that sunk in April last year killing more than 300 people, 250 of whom were high school students on a school trip, the Korea Times reports. Nine bodies are still missing, which was one of the main reasons for a series of protests across the country, culminating last week when protesters and family members of victims prevented the government officials from attending a memorial ceremony to mark the first anniversary of…

Tanggal May 04, 2015

A small coastal tanker is hijacked by pirates in South East Asia every two weeks on average, a report from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has revealed. South East Asia accounts for 55% of the world’s 54 piracy and armed robbery incidents since the start of 2015. After a steady drop in global piracy over the last few years, attacks rose 10% in the first quarter of 2015 on the same period of 2014, the report shows. Worldwide,…

Tanggal May 04, 2015

The Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping, Masamichi Morooka, warned about the dangers of regional maritime regulation being adopted by governments at variance to the global maritime Conventions adopted by IMO. Speaking before members of the Singapore Shipping Association today Morooka said that global rules for a global shipping industry is not just a slogan and criticized the approaches to the regulation of shipping being pursued by the United States and the…

Tanggal May 04, 2015

The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Legal Committee encouraged Member States to ratify and bring into force, as soon as possible, the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea, 2010 (2010 HNS Convention), which to date has received no ratification. During the Committee’s 102nd session held in London from April 14 to 16, 33 countries and a number of…

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