Committees

There are three BIMCO committees: the Documentary Committee for contracts and clauses, the Marine Environment Committee and the Maritime Safety and Security Committee. Each normally meets twice a year.

Documentary Committee

Marine Environment Committee

Maritime Safety and Security Committee

Documentary Committee

The Documentary Committee direects the affairs of BIMCO relating to documentary and similar matters.

Chairperson Documentary Committee

Mr Nicholas Fell

BW Group Limited
Vice Chairperson

Ms Nicola Ioannou

Oceanfleet Shipping Ltd.
Vice Chairperson

Mr Michiel Starmans

Spliethoff
Vice Chairperson

Mr Daniel Carr

Stolt-Nielsen USA Inc.
Honorary Member

Mr Nils-Gustaf Palmgren

Belgium

Mr Peter Laurijssen

CMB nv
Brazil

Mr Mauro Andre Alves Correa

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETROBRAS)
Canada

Ms Annie Choquette

The CSL Group Inc
China

Capt Lin Huoping

COSCO Shipping Bulk Co., Ltd.
Cyprus

Mr Kyriakos Kourieas

Interorient Marine Services Limited
Denmark

Mr Glenn Bennigsen

Ultrabulk A/S
Finland

Capt Antti Partanen

Rederi Ab Nathalie
France

Ms Charlotte Grandjean

CMA CGM S.A.
Germany

Mr Peter Eckhardt

Reederei F. Laeisz G.M.B.H.
Greece

Ms Nicola Ioannou

Oceanfleet Shipping Ltd.
Hong Kong

Ms Bianca Knight

Pacific Basin Shipping (HK) Limited
India

Devendra Negi

Bainbridge Navigation Pte Ltd
Italy

Mr Federico Viti

d'Amico Societa di Navigazione S.p.A
Japan

Ms Fumi Nakamura

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha - NYK Line
Korea, Republic of

Mr MyeongSu Ha

Pan Ocean Co. Ltd.
Monaco

Mr. Luca Forgione

All Energies Services Holding BV
Netherlands

Mr Michiel Starmans

Spliethoff
Norway

Ms Elsebeth C. Guttormsen

Odfjell SE
Poland

Mr Marcin Dziewa

Polsteam Frachtowanie Sp. z o.o. Polsteam Brokers
Singapore

Mr Adam Emilianou

Eastern Pacific Shipping Pte. Ltd.
Spain

Mr Juan Jose Fernandez-Ricoy

Empresa Naviera Elcano S.A.
Sweden

Capt Mattias Kjellberg

Stena Rederi AB
Switzerland

Ms Melissa Cacciotti

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA
Türkiye

Mr BURAK SANER

Kiran Holding AS
United Arab Emirates

Mr Sujan Malhotra

DTA Maritime LLC
United Kingdom

Mr Roderick White

BP Shipping Ltd
USA

Mr Daniel Carr

Stolt-Nielsen USA Inc.

Documentary Committee (Substitutes)

Belgium

Mr Gregory Fossion

Exmar N.V.
Brazil

Ms Lilian Schaefer

Syndarma - Sindicato Nacional das Empresas de Nav
Canada

Ms Yolanda Boehmer

Canfornav Limited
China

Ms Li Xu Hua

COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation Co.,Ltd.
Cyprus

Mr Michael Kazantjis

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Cyprus) Ltd.
Denmark

Kaare Christoffersen

Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S
Finland

Capt Kirsi Ylärinne

ESL Shipping Ltd
France

Ms Cecile Bellord

Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS
Germany

Mr John Freydag

Harper Petersen & Co. GmbH & Co. KG.
Greece

Mr Haralambos Fafalios

The Union of Greek Shipowners
Hong Kong

Juan Zhai

China Merchants Energy Shipping Co., Ltd
India

Bidesh Bhaumik

Apeejay Shipping Limited
Japan

Mr Ken Abe

NS United Kaiun Kaisha, Ltd. General Affairs Group
Monaco

Mr Francesco Bellusci

Scorpio Ship Management S.A.M.
Netherlands

Mr Ralf van der Zalm

Anthony Veder Rederijzaken B.V.
Norway

Ms Joanna Evje

Klaveness AS
Poland

Mr Jaroslaw Dziedzic

Polska Zegluga Morska (POLSTEAM)
Singapore

Mr François-Xavier Accard

CMA CGM Int. Shipping Co. Pte Ltd (APL)
Spain

Mr Ricardo Sainz

Ership, S.A.U.
Sweden

Mr Lars Hallsberg

Erik Thun AB
Switzerland

Mr Artemis Papatheodorou

Suisse-Atlantique, Société de Navigation Maritime
Türkiye

Mr Selcuk Sencer Esenyel

Esenyel & Partners Lawyers and Consultants
United Kingdom

Ms Victoria Blackburn

Shell International Trading & Shipping Company
USA

Ms Alessandra Tebaldi

McAllister Towing

Marine Environment Committee

The Marine Environment Committee shall direct the affairs of BIMCO relating to marine environment matters.

Chairperson Marine Environment Committee

Mr Bjorn Hojgaard

Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Ltd
Cyprus

Mr Erwin Derlagen

Enesel Ltd
Denmark

Ms Sanne Henriksen

A.P. Møller - Maersk A/S
France

Mr Antoine Person

Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS
Germany

Mr Richard von Berlepsch

Hapag-Lloyd AG
Greece

Mr Panos Zachariadis

Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Ltd
Hong Kong S.A.R.

Mr Zhou Jian Feng

Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings Ltd
India

Mr Mudit Mehrotra

The Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd
Netherlands

Ms Kaia Bjerre van de Ven

Shell Trading and Shipping Company
Switzerland

Mr Keith Dawe

Cargill International SA
United Arab Emirates

Mr Pradeep Bajpai

Tomini Ship Management

Maritime Safety and Security Committee

The Maritime Safety and Security Committee directs the affairs of BIMCO relating to maritime safety and security matters.

Chairperson Maritime Safety and Security Committee

Mr Bjorn Hojgaard

Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Ltd
China

Mr Weizhong Jiang

COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co, Ltd
Cyprus

Mr Dieter Rohdenburg

Intership Navigation Co. Ltd
Denmark

Mr Flemming Dahl Jensen

Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S
Denmark

Mr Soren Andersen

MOL Chemical Tankers Europe A/S
Germany

Mr Deepak Gupta

Oldendorff Carriers
Greece

Mr Dimitrios Heliotis

Target Marine S.A.
Greece

Mr Georgios Papagiannopoulos

Common Progress Co Na SA
Hong Kong

Mr Kuldeepak Sethi

Fleet Management Limited
Netherlands

Mr Marco van Rijsinge

Spliethoff
Switzerland

Mr Claudio Abbate

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA
United Kingdom

Mrs Katy Ware

Zodiac Maritime Limited.
USA

Mr David Bancroft

Chevron Shipping Company, LLC