BIMCO, World Customs to boost cooperation on countering drug smuggling
BIMCO (Baltic and International Maritime Council) and the World Customs Organisation (WCO) have signed a new memorandum of understanding to improve existing co-operation to adopt useful guidance and advice within the shipping industry.
BIMCO, the major world shipowners group, said the new deal will be used as the overarching agreement for it to review its existing individual agreements with 15 national customs unions drug smuggling agreements.
The shipping organisation that provides services to shipowners, operators, managers, brokers and agents said in a written release it, "Has been at the forefront of supply chain and ship security within the shipping industry, advising and briefing ship owners on countering illegal maritime activities for the past two decades.
"Today, shipping and seafarers are subject to all sorts of security threats and a broad range of maritime crime and it is obvious that customs authorities and shipowners have a shared interest in collaborating in an effort to curtail the proliferation of these damaging activities," said the BIMCO press release.
BIMCO (Baltic and International Maritime Council) and the World Customs Organisation (WCO) have signed a new memorandum of understanding to improve existing co-operation to adopt useful guidance and advice within the shipping industry.
BIMCO, the major world shipowners group, said the new deal will be used as the overarching agreement for it to review its existing individual agreements with 15 national customs unions drug smuggling agreements.
The shipping organisation that provides services to shipowners, operators, managers, brokers and agents said in a written release it, "Has been at the forefront of supply chain and ship security within the shipping industry, advising and briefing ship owners on countering illegal maritime activities for the past two decades.
"Today, shipping and seafarers are subject to all sorts of security threats and a broad range of maritime crime and it is obvious that customs authorities and shipowners have a shared interest in collaborating in an effort to curtail the proliferation of these damaging activities," said the BIMCO press release.