Tag: Danish Maritime Authority (DMA)

"The proposal to ban the on-board presence of high sulphur content fuel globally is a step in the right direction. We are striving to reduce distortional practices among the various flag States, and this ban will make it easier to enforce the regulations and, thus, help ensure a level playing field," said Andreas Nordseth, Director General of DMA.

PSC inspections are time-consuming since they include scrutiny of the ship’s certificates. In the wake of the DMA’s implementation of digital certificates on Danish ships, DMA and EMSA are examining how online control of certificates could make PSC inspections more efficient without compromising safety.

The Danish Government released its new Plan for Growth in the Danish Maritime Sector. The plan includes initiatives aimed at making Denmark a global frontrunner within tests of maritime autonomous technologies and maritime digitalisation and creating more work-experience places at sea.

The Danish Maritime Authority reported an increase on the Danish-controlled fleet, as it has now taken the sixth place on the list of the world’s major shipping nations given as operated tonnage. Denmark has, since, moved up one place.

​Maritime regulation should be made more flexible if it is to support the development of autonomous ships, according to a new report by Danish Maritime Authority. The report identifies where changes in maritime regulation are needed and will be used as a platform for the future effort of DMA to develop regulation and make it digitalisation-ready.

The time has come to apply for renewal of CLC, Bunker, Athens and Wreck Removal Certificates from the DMA. The certificates must be renewed once a year when the underlying insurance expires.

MAN Diesel and Turbo announced that its L51/60DF engine successfully passed its Type Approval Test, which ran from October 17 at the company’s Augsburg works in Germany, in front of the industry’s main classification societies.

The Danish Maritime Authority announced availability of a new, digital version of the Radio Medical Record, in a bid to digitalize as many work processes as possible to ease the burdens imposed on seafarers as much as possible.

The Danish Maritime Authority informed that after two weeks' intensive debate in the IMO, steps have been taken towards specific measures to reduce shipping's greenhouse gas emissions, but there are still difficult negotiations ahead, in order to reach the necessary milestones.

In line with its plans to enhance digitalization in shipping, the Danish Maritime Authority announced that the Ship Station License has now become digital, reducing the number of administrative burdens imposed on the industry. The DMA has recently digitized other ship certificates too.