Ensuring Quality Shipping – a Danish Perspective

Lisbet DyerbergDeputy Director General, Danish

Maritime Authority

XII International Seminar of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, 21-22 October 2009

Protectionism can show its face in many ways

Response from governments

Cooperation and dialogue

• Transparency and effective monitoring

– Free-flowing information on policies affecting trade and shipping is essential

• Swift action towards new protectionistic measures

• Continue efforts to promote international liberalization

Additional policy challenges

Maintain efforts to ensure• free trade and open markets• recruitment and education• level playing field for quality shipping

Yard

Commercial management

Owner

Technical

management

Crewing

Globalised shipping

Quality Shipping

• We have rules, guidelines and registration systems.

• Do we need more rules ?

• Administrative burdens

(paper overload)?

Lower administrative burdens – the Danish experience – more time on safety• Have since 2005 worked vigorously to fulfil the

governments objective to reduce companies administrative burdens by up to 25 percent in 2010.

• How much can we do within the maritime sector?

• How much can we do on board the ships?

There is more to quality shipping

than clean certificates

Not just complying, but adding value through effective operations of safe vessels on clean oceans with healthy seafarers

Thank you !

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