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Shipping Chartering

Posted on May 11, 2015 by shipmanagementmerlionas

Shipping Chartering

It happened to be situations when people had encounter unusual words or the words that were commonly known, but could be a difficulty explaining them precise enough. Believe it or not, but after a little inquire being made nobody could give a clear meaning for the word “Ship chartering”. Some people gave answers that sounded “private jet trips”, “shipping a military or special cargo to some destination”, some others responded doubtfully that “chartering is renting a plane for passenger travels” or “renting a yacht for passenger travelling”. Having found that everybody had different opinion on a commonly (known) heard word a decision was made to use world wide web resources to discover more about the meaning of “ship chartering”.

Keeping in mind, that Wikipedia is a huge resource of human knowledge, but since it is edited and revised by various individuals not necessarily academically recognized scholars, the search for the word “ship chartering” would involve some other internationally acclaimed resources. After typing in the word “ship chartering meaning” a comprehensive list of dictionaries had been provided with the various definitions on “ship chartering” term. Well known and trusted dictionaries like “Oxford dictionaries” and “Merriam-Webster dictionary” provided the definition on “chartering” in general stating that “of, relating to, or being a travel arrangement in which transportation (as a bus or plane) is hired by and for one specific group of people <a charter flight>”; “The hiring of an aircraft, ship, or motor vehicle for a special purpose”.

This little investigation showed that people who responded in doubt about the “ship chartering” term were the closest explaining the term. However, the most surprising fact in this little investigation was that search engine provided a more detailed explanation on the given term only on the fourth page of the search list. We could always consider this as being an incidental factor or intentional action in order to find a more detailed explanation on “ship chartering”. Speaking of a detailed explanation on a “ship chartering” term, it was found on Baltic and International Maritime Council website assuming that it was a trustworthy resource knowing the fact that this is the largest of the international shipping associations representing shipowners. BIMCO explained “ship chartering” through voyage terms: “Voyage charters are contracts for the use of the ship and her crew to carry an agreed cargo on an agreed voyage regardless of time in exchange for the payment of freight and other remuneration such as demurrage”. After finding more about chartering services and typing in more definitions, it appeared that most marine company’s use the term in their service description pages like Merlionas and alike.

A conclusive statement could be made on this short inquiry is that people not always sure they know about commonly known terms and these terms are not even so easily found over huge internet resources.

Ship Management Services

Posted on February 13, 2015 by shipmanagementmerlionas

Historically, shipping is one of the oldest types of business and currently, its expansion continues to grow encompassing the establishment of various regulations and rules for international and local shipping business. Ship owners became obligated to perform various aspect of ship management such as ship registration services, visas for ship entering and leaving the port, ship maintenance, vessel management in foreign seas. Since ship management involves many operations, eventually it became more and more complex process, especially due to different regulations of each international port of entry. Seeking to ease and fasten ship management procedures, ship owners started to search and collaborate with the companies that represent themselves as full ship management services provider taking care of commercial and technical vessel management operations.

Nowadays, ship management companies are not limited to providing commercial and technical vessel management services, but also extended their services to ship chartering, marine recruitment, brokerage services. Speaking of marine companies, it is considered that operating under ISM code is one of the determining factors that describing reputable and reliable ship management company. ISM code basically means guiding all the operations according international standard for the safe management and operation of ships and for pollution prevention. There are numerous companies that help ship owners save their time and energy while going through various ship management procedures, but it’s particularly important to operate under International Safety Management code as they solely accept responsibility for their operations at highest level.

While surfing the web pay a close attention if a particular ship management company is acting under ISM code. There is no comprehensive list of companies available, but as suitable instance could be ship management company Merlionas specializing in the services mentioned above.