Danish Maritime Authority Joins IMO’s Efforts to Bring Digitalisation in Shipping Industry

September 23, 2011

The Danish Maritime Authority takes part in the international work aiming at making the industry more digital. You can, among other things, read news from the 37th session of the FAL Committee.

The work making the shipping industry safer and more environmentally friendly has increased the number of administrative procedures to a level so that they constitute a safety dimension in themselves. At the same time, the global crisis has created a need for cost reductions.

In order to reduce the number of administrative burdens on board and to support the operational optimisation of shipping, the Danish Maritime Authority has launched a number of initiatives in national and international regulation in order to localise and reduce the administrative burdens.

Administrative burdens were also on the agenda of an IMO meeting in the so-called Facilitation Committee (the FAL Committee). Here, the Convention was updated, among other things, with references to digital data exchange, and the Danish Maritime Authority strived to make the mandatory ship reporting systems electronic.

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Source: DMA, September 23, 2011; Image: IMO