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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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

​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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Five participants from Korean Register of Shipping, DR. Park Bum-Shik, Chairman and CEO, Mr. Lee Hyung-chui, Executive Vice President of Business Division, Mr. Charles Choi, Director of international Business Development, DR. Lee Shik Chai,- KR Representative, Mr. H.S Lee, - Country Manager in Indonesia, made a courtesy call to Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia, received by his Excellency Mr. Rudiyanto at BKI head office in Jakarta on 21 April 2015. Also present at that courtesy, were Mr. Sjaifuddin...

Owner and operator of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers Avance Gas plans to send another newbuild for drydocking to rule out potential defects.  The company said it was taking actions to drydock VLGC Breeze in Singapore for inspection purposes on 22 April 2015. The ship was delivered to Avance Gas on 9 April 2015.  “The drydock will delay Breeze entering service, but the exact timing is subject to the outcome of the inspection,” Avance Gas...

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) apprehended two cargo ships for leaving the Sablayan Port without clearance last Saturday, 11 April.  Investigation revealed that while MV Aceford was docked at Sablayan Port April 09, one of its crew completed the pumping of bilge water but left the end portion of the hose submerged in the sea. The ingress of water flooded the engine room and damaged the electrical equipment such as pumps, starters and alternators.  The crew used...

A 104-meter long bulk carrier “Hai Jian 77” capsized near Xiao Qu Shan Island in Zhoushan prefecture, East China early Tuesday morning with nine crew on board.  Four crew members have been rescued by the rescue team dispatched to the scene by Ministry of Transport’s Donghai Rescue and Salvage Bureau. The remaining five crew are still unaccounted for.  According to Marine Traffic’s vessel tracking record, the ship’s last known...

BKI, represented by Sjaifuddin Thahir Corporate Communication – BKI, will involve in SIRE inspection programmes. One of the most significant safety initiatives introduced by OCIMF is the Ship Inspection Report Programme (SIRE). This programme was originally launched in 1993 to specifically address concerns about sub-standard shipping. The SIRE system is a very large database of up-to-date information about tankers and barges. Essentially, SIRE has focused tanker industry awareness on the...

Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia again organize surveyor up grading skill training for statutory duty audit and certification at Harris Hotel, Sentul City, Bogor, on 20 – 30 April 2015. The training which is designed to increase surveyor’s practical knowledge and skill relating to the government intention to delegates more statutory duty assignment to BKI is officially open by the BKI President Director, Rudiyanto. “There is a need to evenly distribute practical knowledge and skill...

South Korean government is trying to determine if it is viable to hoist the capsized ferry, Sewol, from the Yellow Sea.  During a press conference in Seoul on 13 April, the country's Minister of Public Safety and Security, Park In-yong, said he would facilitate a feasibility study. Park In-yong's comments came a week after President Park Geun-hye and floor leader of the ruling Saenuri Party said the ferry should be salvaged if it is technically feasible and that this should be...

Classification Business for coal barge and its tug boat downturn predicted this year because coal mining is also predicted business is still slow conveyed by Sjaifuddin Thahir - Corporate Communication - BKI. The reason is the low price of coal and legal certainty in the mining industry is still a major challenge for employers of coal in 2015.   The decline in barge classification caused directly proportional to the problems that hamper the national coal industry among...

China’s massive reclamation activities have destroyed 300 hectares of coral reef systems in the South China Sea/ West Philippine Sea, leading to economic losses to coastal states valued at USD 100 million annually, the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines said in a statement.   According to the DFA statement, China has also tolerated environmentally harmful fishing practices by its nationals at Bajo De Masinloc which breaches its international...

The legislation meant to regulate ship recycling practices, in particular the European Union Ship Recycling Regulation and the International Maritime Organisation’s Hong Kong Convention, mainly based on flag state jurisdiction will neither be able to solve the problems of substandard shipbreaking nor enforce the polluter pays principle on ship owners, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform stressed.  The NGO Shipbreaking Platform published today a briefing paper titled “What...

A majority of seafarers are content with life at sea, according to preliminary results of a new survey being carried out as part of the BIMCO/ICS Manpower Report 2015.  The survey of seafarers is the first of the targeted surveys for this year’s report. More than 500 seafarers have already responded to the survey, representing over 40 nationalities.  Some of the other preliminary findings include: Beberapa temuan lain survey pendahuluan ini termasuk: ‘Happy...

Out of 262 vessels sold for breaking during the first quarter of 2015, more than half (151 ships) ended up on the beaches of South Asia as owners continue to scrap their vessels at substandard yards, the latest quarterly report of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform shows.  All together, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan accounted for 58% of the number of ships dismantled in the first quarter of 2015.  39 of these ships were owned by European ship owners, most...

Hong Kong will add nine new categories to its definition of ”garbage from ships,” including food wastes, operational wastes, cooking oil, fishing gear and animal carcasses, as part of the new Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Regulation.  A spokesman for the Transport and Housing Bureau said that the IMO adopted the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) to stipulate regulations which aim at preventing and...

Last week’s cancellation of the plan to build the Cilamaya port has not deterred Japan from its intention to build a seaport in Indonesia, Yusron Ihza Mahendra, Indonezia’s Ambassador to Japan was reported by the local Antara News as saying. Following a meeting with Indonesia’s vice president Jusuf Kalla and the Japanese Kaidanren team, Mahendra said he was confident Japan was still in the game, but would most probably conduct a study prior to moving ahead with the...

CEO of BKI, Mr. Rudiyanto, accompanied by BKI Corporate Secretary, Mr. Saifuddin Wijaya and BKI Corporate Communications, Mr. Sjaifuddin Thahir, were invited in the introduction to the Indonesian Minister of Industry, Mr. Saleh Husin at the Ministry of Industry. BKI supports the vision of the National Industrial development on the National Industrial Policy that is Indonesia will become Industrial country in 2025, with the vision in year 2020 as the New Industrialized Countries. Indonesia as a...

Crystal Chan/09 April 2015 Finnish crane manufacturer Konecranes said it has received orders for three ship-to-shore cranes from PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Persero) in Surabaya, Indonesia.  The cranes will be delivered to PT Terminal Petikemas Surabaya (TPS) by the end of 2016.  When the cranes are in operation, seven Konecranes STS cranes and 16 Konecranes rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes would be operating in the terminal.  TPS is an important gateway to East Java, serving...

Titus Zheng/08 April 2015. Indonesia is seeking a new location for seaport construction after raising safety concerns for the existing Cilamaya Port project.  The country's vice-president Jusuf Kalla cited that the original position for the Cilamaya Port project is "too close" to an oil and gas block operated by Pertamina Hulu Energi Offshore North West Java, a subsidiary of state-owned energy company Pertamina.  "It will be dangerous to construct the seaport close to the...

Greed and corruption are responsible for the death of at least 56 crewmembers of the Russian freezer trawler Dalniy Vostok which sank last week off Kamchatka, Vladimir Markin, the Investigative Committee spokesman, was reported as saying by TASS news agency.  13 people are still missing, presumed dead.  63 crewmembers were rescued from the freezing water, many suffering from hypothermia, with 7 of them in ”serious” need of medical attention....

Sixteen sailors have been left to their own devices for months after their vessel MT Surya Kuber got seized in Bahrain due to unpaid debts.  The crude oil tanker was banned by a court order in February from leaving the country as its  Singapore-based owner 7Seas Ship Management failed to pay Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard (Asry) and Kanoo Shipping more than $220,000, the Gulf News Daily reports.  The ban is to be in force until the debt is paid, according to the...

7 April 2015.  A product tanker was hijacked by a group of armed pirates while underway off Indonesia.  Around 15-25 pirates armed with pistols boarded the tanker some 62nm North of Pulau Uwi, Indonesia, International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) piracy reporting center informed.  Once on board, the pirates took the crew hostage and robbed their belongings. The group fled the scene shortly after they syphoned the ship’s cargo to another vessel.  The tanker in...

6 April 2015.  China’s Maritime Safety Administration received a report of a collision between two bulk carriers off the country’s eastern Shandong Province, near the city of Weihai, April 5.  Shandong Province maritime rescue center organized search and rescue operations, and found the 97-meter, China-flagged Yang En 1 taking on water, abandoned by all 14 crewmembers who boarded liferafts and were picked up by passing vessels. The crew of the 229-meter, Marshall...

5 April 2015.  A North Korea-flagged general cargo ship Mu Du Bong and its crew have been illegally detained in Mexico since July 2014, and North Korea will undertake ”necessary measures” to release it, the country’s Deputy UN Ambassador An Myong Hun was reported by Reuters as saying.  The 6,700-ton freighter ran aground and damaged a reef 7.5 miles northeast off the Port of Tuxpan on July 14, while sailing from Havana, Cuba. The ship and its 50 crew have...

  "We, the Board of Worker Union are ready to become the employer’s partner and ready to escort efforts for better employee benefits," said the Chairman of the BKI Worker Union Taufik Arie Wijaya in his speech in the signing of the Collective Labor Agreement with BKI Management on 26 March 2015 at BKI Head Office, Jakarta. This agreement was signed by BKI Worker Union Chairman and BKI President Director Rudiyanto and was witnessed by the Director General of Industrial Relations,...

All ACS TMG members of Classification society throughout Asia, ACS, thank for the success of the Indonesia Classification Society (BKI) in leading and organizing an international meeting of the Association of Asian Classification Society (ACS) in Yogyakarta on 18-19 March 2015. Chairman of TMG, Sjaifuddin Thahir (BKI) and all members in the meeting decided to establish a more intense communication with Hongkong Ship Owner Association (HKSOA) that contains the report (on machinery failures)...

Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia is preparing to receive more ship statutory duty delegation from the government and paired with Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta to develop surveyor training program. The  Memorandum of Understanding betwee two institutions was signed by BKI President Director Rudiyanto and the STIP Chairman Arifin Sunardjo on 16 March 2015 in Bogor. “To be able to perform effectively on statutory duty inspection I am sure that BKI will need personnel with...

“BKI is not the extension of government hand, but we are service company which is operate based on government authorization and regulations,” said BKI’s President Director Rudiyanto on his speech at the opening ceremony of the company’s internal training in Arch Hotel Bogor, on 16 March 2015. “We will miss the service value if we think that we are government authority, in fact our competitiveness as a service company is the service itself,” added Rudi. BKI...

BKI is ready to accept additional statutory assignment from the Indonesian Government. That circumstance was revealed in the BKI’s senior surveyor in house training held at the Arch Hotel Bogor on 16 – 19 March 2015. “BKI should be ready if soon the Government gives more statutory assignment. Therefore training like this is expected able to provide necessary knowledge needed by BKI’s surveyor to perform statutory inspection as what has been done by the Directorate...

Bimas Baharkam of Indonesian National Police Department mentioned that they need to have maritime-sector related training module of Security Management System (SMP). “We need to have a module for the training of maritime sector security management system, what we already have today is for banking, general office, tourism, the one focusing on the maritime field is also needed to be developed,” said Brigadier General (Pol) Hengky Kaluara the Director of Bimas of Baharkam Polri. This...

Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia is to explore the possibility to develop Security Management System (SMP) audit service for maritime support sector. This intention was revealed at the occasion of SMP presentation by the Bimas Director of the Indonesian Police Department Baharkam Birgjen (Pol) Hengky Kaluara to the Directors and BKI’s officials on 13 March 2015 at BKI Head Office, Jakarta. BKI’s President Director Rudiyanto within that occasion explained that BKI has the opportunity to...

Crystal Chan/09 March 2015. The International Association of Classifications Societies (IACS) said it has developed two new rules as a result of the break-up and sinking of MOL Comfort. MOL Comfort, an 8,110-teu container ship, broke up and sank while en route from Singapore to Jeddah on 17 June 2013. In early 2014, IACS had launched an expert group on structural safety of container ships, which carried out a review of the MOL Comfort incident, also taking into account a number of past...

Angela Yu/06 March 2015. The sinking of Taiwanese maritime research vessel Ocean Researcher V has been attributed chiefly to human error, according to a Maritime and Port Bureau report. "Investigators found that the crew members did not follow correct procedures during the return voyage, which required the use of nautical charts to map the ship position, and they did not make full preparation for the possibility of a disaster," Chi Wen-chung, Maritime and Port Bureau director, told the media...

Angela Yu /06 March 2015. COSCO's heavy-lift ship Da Dan Xia was detained in Cartagena by Colombian authorities on 4 March for carrying illegal weapons. About 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, reported local media. Containers labelled China North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco) - China's biggest arms maker - was also found aboard the vessel,...

04/03/2015. The international shipping association BIMCO has launched a new, three-part guidance resource called Guide to Maritime Environmental & Efficiency Management, to support ship owners and operators in improving their environmental performance and the efficiency of their ships. Developed in partnership with maritime efficiency specialists Fathom, and supported by ClassNK, the Guide provides a resource to facilitate compliance with environmental regulations and assist owners and...

Titus Zheng/04 March 2015.  Malaysia-listed offshore services provider Bumi Armada has incorporated a new subsidiary under the name of Armada Madura EPC (Armada Madura) in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. According to Bumi Armada's filing to the Malaysian stock exchange Bursa Malaysia, Armada Madura will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Bumi Armada Offshore Holdings, with intended principal business activities on vessel management and ownership, chartering, marine support, and...

04/03/2015. Japan’s NYK Line decided to expand its service network linking Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam amid increasing demand for container transport between Japan and Southeast Asia. The company’s previous service for this area, the Phoenix Service, will be renamed the Phoenix 1 Service, and a new Phoenix 2 Service will be added to provide a more stable transportation network, NYK said. The new service will be independently operated by NYK using three 2,700 TEU containerships...

PADECO, an international development consulting company, headquartered in Tokyo, is active worldwide with experience in more than 110 countries, represented by Mr. Akira Watanabe, Senior Consultant in the Division of Development of transport infrastructure, accompanied by Bambang Prasetya, its representative in Indonesia, visit at the Head office of Indonesian Classification Society (BKI), Jl Yos Suradso 38 Jakarta - Indonesia and received directly by Mr. Sjaifuddin Thahir, Corporate...

BKI President Director Rudiyanto received an award from the Minister of Labor Affairs Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri on the Occupational Health and Safety (K3) Campaign event entitled "Safety is My Life" held in conjunction with the Car Free Day at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout junction, Jakarta, Sunday, March 1, 2014. The award was given as a symbol of appreciation to the SMK3 audit services company supporting the success of this K3 campaign event. Minister of Labor Affairs in his speech said that...

This is to convey via BKI, via Corporate communication, Sjaifuddin Tahir, that shipowner liability on the horizon as Denmark ratifies international instrument. The Nairobi International Convention on the Removal Wrecks will enter into force on 14 April 2015 following the deposit, on 14 April 2014, of an instrument of ratification by Denmark, with the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Among several provisions, the Convention will place financial responsibility for the removal of...

Delegation from Ocean Engineering Student Association of Ocean Technical Faculty ITS Surabaya again visited BKI Head Office on 27 February 2015. The visit was packed in an event titled Ocean Engineering Excursion Study 2015 and was followed by 51 students and two lectured. The excursion study participants was received by the BKI’s Offshore Division Head Abdul Ghofar, Business Development Division Head Agung Prihanto and Corporate Communication Senior Manager Sjaifuddin Thahir. Besides...

Ramadas Rao. 25 February 2015.  Sevastopol, the Russian cargo vessel that unsuccessfully tried to jump arrest in India last week, is involved in litigation with a local logistics company that has been awarded damages of INR14M (USD224,715), IHS Maritime has learned. The Madras High Court heard a petition from Chennai (formerly Madras)-based NTC Logistics pleading for the vessel's arrest. The company's allegations against Sevastopol include damage to cargo, delays in loading, and...

Moyoun Jin. 25 February 2015.  South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has assigned 22 safety inspection officers at the headquarters of the ministry and regional offices of maritime affairs as a follow-up measure after the Sewol disaster. Through a press statement on 16 February, the ministry said, "The newly appointed 22 safety inspection officers have more than 15-20 years of work experience in the related fields. They will be in charge of guidance and supervision of safety...

John Gallagher. 24 February 2015.  A 47-year-old Philippine national who served as chief engineer on board a Japanese car carrier has been sentenced to eight months in a US prison for MARPOL violations. The prison term for Noly Torato Vidad, to be followed by a year of supervised release, was for obstructing justice and illegally dumping oily waste into the sea. During a coastguard inspection of the 18,082 dwt Selene Leader at the Port of Baltimore in January 2014, Vidad tried to hide...

Veronika Farkas. 12 February 2015.  Five crew members were killed and four were still missing after an explosion on floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Cidade de São Mateus on 11 February, BW Offshore confirmed. Online news sources reported that the cause of the explosion and consequent fire was a gas leak, but BW Offshore did not confirm this to IHS Maritime. The cause of explosion is unclear yet, "we have been extremely busy with the all the personnel and their...

Michael Jones. 19 February 2015.  Classification society DNV GL has announced it will class the world's largest containership the MSC Oscar. The 19,244teu vessel, now in East-West revenue service, was delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in January. The reported building price was USD140.5 million. DNV GL says the vessel's container capacity was increased by implementing the RSCS class notation (Route Specific Container Stowage). RSCS was developed by...

For preparing for the Global Sulphur Cap, via BKI Corporate Communication, Sjaifuddin Thahir, with respect to the issue of fuel availability and the economic impact on the industry, there is also growing concern about the implementation of the global cap that will reduce the sulphur content in fuel consumed outside ECAs to 0.5%. This is scheduled to take place in 2020, with an option for IMO to decide to delay until 2025 if necessary, depending on the outcome of an IMO fuel availability study...

Merchant shipping is one of the most heavily regulated industries and was amongst the first to adopt widely implemented international safety standards conveyed by Sjaifuddin Thahir - BKI. Regulations concerning shipping are developed at the global level. Because shipping is inherently international, it is vital that shipping is subject to uniform regulations on matters such as construction standards, navigational rules and standards of crew competence. The alternative would be a plethora of...

ESP Code 2011 amendment offered by IACS to align in associated with RO and IACS has been reviewing ESP Code 2011 (resolution A.1049 (27)) in order to examine the use of terms related to RO. ESP Code 2011 has been transferred from IACS Z10 and is based on the requirements of SOLAS regulation XI-1/2. Ammendment ESP Code 2011 ESP to ship Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers (ESP Code 2011) (resolution A.1049 (27)), the measurement of the thickness of the hull construction if it is not done by RO...

Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia’s President Director Rudiyanto, symbolically handed over aid to the local flood sufferer living nearby BKI’s Head Office on Friday, 13 February 2015. The event took place at the RW 010 Resident Hall of Kebon Bawang Local District, District of Tanjung Priok, was also attended by Local District Administrator Lilies Asnawaty, BKI’s Director of Finance and Administration Timbul Tambunan, RW 010 Board Member, and local residents. The 200 packages aid...

In order to prepare human resources and preparation of experts in the field of maritime naval architecture and shipbuilding engineering, especially in engineering, then on January 26, 2015 Department of Naval Architecture University of Hasanuddin (UNHAS) Makassar make a visit at the headquarters of Indonesia Classification Society (BKI). A total of approximately 40 students majoring in Naval Architecture - University of Hasanuddin Makassar and accompanied by a faculty mentor directly received...

John Gallagher. 04 February 2015.  US-flag shipowners must soon meet stricter MARPOL rules as the United States falls into line with international oil pollution conventions. Published in the US Federal Register on 4 February, three new provisions that become effective on 5 May will tighten record-keeping for bunkering and raise standards in oil separation equipment and operating plans for tankers conducting ship-to-ship (STS) oil cargo transfers. The new record-keeping requirements,...

Angela Yu. 05 February 2015.  The AIS Information Service Platform by China Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) was officially launched yesterday, and real-time AIS data in China's coastal areas and rivers are now traceable. AIS data of around 35,000 ships are available for the public every day, according to China MSA, and ship information can be searched in terms of real-time location and speed. The platform also integrates port information, tides forecast and meteorological...

Tony Slinn 06 February 2015   Finland-based power provider Wärtsilä will provide an integrated propulsion system for the compressed natural gas (CNG) carrier being built for Indonesian state-owned energy company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN). The 110m-long, 2,200m³ carrier is being constructed at the Jiangsu Hantong shipyard in China. Ordered and designed by China's CIMC Ocean Engineering Design & Research Institute for end user PLN, it is scheduled to be in...

Andrew Spurrier. 27 January 2015.  Former Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino has denied he might try to flee Italy, where prosecutors are seeking to jail him for 26 years over his role in the cruise ship's loss in January 2012. Italian press agency ANSA quoted Schettino as saying that he was "definitely not" a potential absconder as prosecutors at his trial have claimed. "I won't run away," he said. “Saya tidak akan melarikan diri,” katanya Prosecutor...

BKI meet any statistical data that the world container market growth by preparing to survey, inspection and re-certification of container. This statistic represents global container market demand growth from 2009 to 2011, and gives forecast figures through 2016. In 2014, global container market demand is projected to increase by around 6.2 percent. Global container market demand growth Despite a negative global container shipping market growth rate in 2009, partially due to the global...

Today, Thursday 12th February 2015, Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia, represented by the Managing Director (Rudiyanto), Comercial Director (Ibrahim Gause), Corporate Secretary (Saifuddin Wijaya), and Corporate Communications BKI (Sjaifuddin Thahir) confirmed and will receive delegation from China Classification Society (CCS), Mr. TIAN Xiaoping - Reginal Director of CCS Southeast Asia. The meeting will be arranged during the day around the clock in 1430 at the headquarters of Biro Klasifikasi...

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IMO – the International Maritime Organization – is the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships. As a specialized agency of the United Nations, IMO is the global standard-setting authority for the safety, security and environmental performance of international shipping. Its main role is to create a regulatory framework for the shipping industry that is fair and effective,...

On June 14 to July 18, 2014, BKI participated in IMO Sub-Committee Sesseion on the Implementation of IMO Instruments (III) at its first session, held at IMO headquarters in London. BKI act as part of a delegation of the Republic of Indonesia, which consists of the Transportation Attaché at the Embassy in London Capt. Sahattua Simatupang, Sindu Rahayu (of Public Relations and KSLN, Hubla), Capt. Diaz Saputra (Ditkapel), and Efa Rosida Dwi Aditirta (BKI). The Sub-Committee is the...

Indonesian Central Board Ships Owner Association ( INSA ) Board of Directors held a meeting with ICC in the DPP 's office INSA Tanah Abang , Jakarta on February 19, 2013 . The event was opened by the Chairman of the DPP INSA Hartoto Carmelita was attended by the Central Board , Executive Branch , and members from all over Indonesia INSA is in addition aims to introduce the new ICC and the Board of Directors will also be a direct communication between the INSA member Board of Directors and...

  Director of BKI , Rudiyanto , Director of Engineering and Operations BKI , Capt. . Faith Satria Utama , BKI External Affairs - Corporate Secretary , Sjaifuddin Tahir and ICC team received a visit from the National Transportation Safety Committee ( NTSC ) , represented by Hermanu and True Sastrodiwongso and NTSC team on February 3, 2014 at the ICC headquarters , Jl . Yos Sudarso 38 North Jakarta . During the visit to discuss the MOU , and the establishment of a working group or team...

Dynamic Positioning ( DP ) is the ability of a vessel which is provided through the integration of the various individual systems and functions . A computer control system is done automatically to maintain the ship's position by using a propeller and thruster itself . Reference to the position sensors combined with wind sensors , motion sensors and gyro compass , will be able to provide information to a computer on board that deals with the position of the ship , the magnitude and...