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Diamond Indah – Winners of MSI Best Practice Campaign Award 2021

Winner of MSI Best Practice Campaign Award 2021

Diamond Indah – Winners of MSI Best Practice Campaign Award 2021

Over capacities in the market are driving charter rates down. Ship owners face higher costs to finance vessels. Ship operators fight for cargo and drive down their main cost block, which is fuel. Ship managers sit in the middle and have to look after more and more for the same management fees to gain owners management contracts. At the same time lie the requirements on availability of the vessels. Quality and safety of operations, management and treatment of crew and transparency of costs spend are increasing.

We all have our Standard Operating Procedures to follow. However we need to have other approaches, practices, business models or tools to be able to conduct our business in a smarter, safer and greener way to be more competitive.

In the last quarter of 2020 we initiated a campaign on Best Practices being following on board. We were pleasantly surprised with some of the innovative best practices being followed on board some of our fleet ships.

While evaluating the Best Practices, we have concentrated only on the ones that are over and above what our procedures require. After much deliberation, we decided to give the award to: Diamond Indah

The ship will be presented with the plaque as seen in image below.

We will, in due course, circulate a list of good best practices which can be adopted across the fleet.

In the mean time, our heartiest congratulations to the master and Staff on board the Diamond Indah.
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Home > Blog > Seafarer Well-Being Takes Centre Stage with Neptune Declaration

Seafarer Well-Being Takes Centre Stage with Neptune Declaration

Neptune Declaration

Seafarer Well-Being Takes Centre Stage with Neptune Declaration

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The maritime industry had signalled its intent towards to commit towards ensuring the safety and well-being of its greatest assets – its seafarers.

The Neptune Declaration has been signed by more than 300 organizations, a long belated move, which underlines the importance to look at the seafarers who have been affected by the Covid-19 travel restrictions which resulted in extended tenure at sea due to restrictions in travel. While the movement of goods had gone unimpeded during those times, the crew onboard those vessels who facilitate in those movement on the various ships that transverse the oceans face a daunting prospect of lack of support or recognition in their efforts to keep global supply chains open.

It is welcoming news that the wider maritime community comprising not just from ship owners and managers, but also charterers, investment houses to come together to recognize seafarers as essential workers ad that they deserve the right to be given access to vaccines, health services and greater efforts vested towards carrying out crew changes.

The key ambit of the Neptune declaration identifies the following main actions:

• Recognize seafarers as key workers and give them priority access to Covid-19 vaccines.

• Establish and implement gold standard health protocols based on existing best practice.

• Increase collaboration between ship operators and charterers to facilitate crew changes.

• Ensure air connectivity between key maritime hubs for seafarers.

The ultimate purpose of these is to ensure that seafarers are given better protection of their rights in the long term as well affirmation of responsibility by all stakeholders within the industry to safeguard their well-being.

MSI Ship Management’s strategic business partner IMC Shipping is a signatory to the Neptune Declaration. As an organization MSI Ship Management has been continuously proactively been carrying out crew changes in a safely. Our constant engagement of seafarers through various programs aims to ensure our crew member health and wellness is taken care of.

Home > News > MSI Ship Management Takes Maritime Amity into Management

MSI Ship Management Takes Maritime Amity into Management

Maritime Amity Vesselfinder

MSI Ship Management Takes Maritime Amity into Management

MSI Ship Management is proud to have taken into management yet another new build; the product / chemical tanker Maritime Amity.

This is the third new building of its class to be brought into our fleet from China.

MSI would like to congratulate the site team, crew and superintendents for ensuring smooth operations throughout and wish all crew onboard fair winds and following seas.

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