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INTRODUCTION
Niha Merchant Marine Services
(NMMS) is the well known merchant marine
services provider in the region because of providing high standard
quality services with reasonable prices.
The salient feature of the company is to provide
all services to the ship-owners under one roof which is called
ONE WINDOW SYSTEM.
We are the bridge between Ship-owners, Management
companies, Classification Societies and Flag Administrations to
provide those all services as according to their requirements,
standard and quality.
RECOGNIZED ORGANIZATIONS
(RO
- CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES)
The third most important factor is for the
ship-owners or its representative to have good knowledge and
information about the classification societies and its importance and
recognition with chosen flag because it will effect on his vessel's
status and insurance matters.
Classification Societies are divided into two
categories, the first one is called
IACS CLASS and the last one is called
NON-IACS CLASSES.
We hereby briefing the names for your kind
knowledge and information, as well as, being an advisor and
consultant, advise that must ask the
list of RO at the time of registration to
select the right class from them for your vessel.
LIST OF
CONVENTIONS (LOC)
The most important factor is
for the ship-owner or its representative to have the knowledge that
the flag which he choose for his vessel or fleet has signed the
important Conventions
of the IMO
because when the vessel will inspected on any port that
PSCO regulate the
same conventions to check the vessels. If the flag is not a signatory
member of any convention, than it will be trouble for the ship-owner
after the registration.
We hereby append some
necessary conventions for our reliable ship-owners' information :
ROLE OF IMO IN MERCHANT
MARINE INDUSTRY
The
International Maritime Organization (IMO) is a specialized
agency of the United Nations which is
responsible for measures to improve the safety
and security of international shipping and
to prevent marine pollution from ships.
It is also involved in legal matters, including
liability and compensation issues and the facilitation of
international maritime traffic. It was established by means of
a Convention adopted under the auspices of the
United Nations in Geneva on 17 March 1948
and met for the first time in January 1959.
It currently has 167 Member States.
IMO's governing body is the
Assembly which is made up of all
167 Member States and meets normally once
every two years. The main technical work
is carried out by the Maritime Safety, Marine
Environment Protection, Legal, Technical Co-operation and Facilitation
Committees and
a number of sub-committees.
Safe, secure and efficient
shipping on clean oceans means IMO.
FLAG
OF CONVENIENCE (FOC)
We hereby would like to introduce also the term
"flag of Convenience" to our ship-owners to understand the concept
that why they use them for trade and which is convenient for them.
A flag of convenience ship is one that flies the
flag of a country other than the country of ownership
(National
Flag). Approximately
65% of the world's tonnage of merchant ships are registered under the
flag of convenience, because of low taxes, lower wage crew available
with different countries, reduction of transportation cost.
Basic reason for choosing the
FOC are as :
RADIO ACCOUNTING
AUTHORITY (RA)
The Fourth and Final stage for the ship-owner and their
representative is to take care about radio accounting authority
selection from list of Approved
RA. Because If previously you are using Radio BM
but you changed the flag and new flag does not recognized this one so
you have to face the trouble to activate your ship station
equipments. We also provide the services for radio accounting to our
customers.
Radio Accounting is the control and use of perfect communication
between ports authorities, other vessels etc. All this communication
related to electronic devices which is recoded in
Ship Station License however its
activities are controlled by International
telecommunication Union (ITU) which is agency of
United Nation responsible for information
and communication technology.
Our field related with its sector (ITU-R)
which is Radiocommunication.
ITU register the member states and its
companies those are responsible for the same and called as
Radio Accounting Entities
(RAE). Each service provide has an
allocated Code which is called Authorized
Accounting Identification Code (AAIC).
The flag administration select the suitable
RAA to recognized to do so, sometime classification societies
also preferred some specific RAA
selections as they are satisfied with their service levels.
We hereby will also inform you about them in details.
OFFSHORE BUSINESS
COMPANY FORMATION (IBC)
An offshore company is a company which doesn't
conduct substantial business in its country of Incorporation. They are
sometime knows as Non Resident Company.
We also used a term as
International Business Companies or Corporations (IBC) which is
an offshore company under the law of some
jurisdictions as a tax free company which is not engaged in
business within the jurisdiction where it formed or incorporated.
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