Policy positions

Our positions reflect our wide-ranging work with development of the international regulatory environment shipping operates in.

BIMCO Policy Statements

Stylised globe of the world

Keep Shipping Regulation Global

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World-leading Contracts and Clauses

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Leveraging Digitalisation

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Container ship

Collaborating to reduce emissions in the global supply chain

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Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions

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Hydrogen storage siloes

Alternative Fuels

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Piracy, Armed Robbery and Other Violent Criminal Acts at Sea

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Ship Recycling

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Biofouling Management

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Packets of illegal drugs being inspected

Smuggling

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Compass on a ship's bridge

Safe and Efficient Navigation

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A seafarer looking out of a ship's porthole

Fair Treatment of Seafarers

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Plastic Litter

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Ship's propellor

Underwater Radiated Noise

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Hexadecimal numbers on a computer screen interspersed with words relevant to cyber security

Cyber Risk Management

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Aerial view of a container ship

Autonomous Ships

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Water being pumped out of a ship

Grey Water

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Military people climbing up a ship's ladder from a smaller boat

Anti-corruption

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