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SmartCon will be the long-term successor for IDEA. Based on the latest Microsoft technology, it will ensure that we can continue to offer our industry-known contracts for years to come.
SmartCon is the new and improved way of working with BIMCO contracts. The biggest change is that you can finally download and have an authentic and secure version of a BIMCO contract on your own computer. Get the full overview under “Payment options and available contracts” and sign-up below, today.
IDEA is the well-known and very popular online charter party editor for using BIMCO contracts for the last decade. Since IDEA will not be here in the long term, we recommend that existing IDEA users contact us to hear about how to move from IDEA to SmartCon in the easiest and most efficient way. For these enquires, please write to smartcon@bimco.org or call product support at +45 44 36 68 22.
Personal Data Protection Clauses for SHIPMAN, CREWMAN, SUPPLYTIME and GUARDCON are available now. These are additional clauses that can be added to specific BIMCO contracts if parties need wording to cover personal data protection legislation.
In response to the global sulphur limit of no more than 0.50% that will come into force on 1 January 2020, BIMCO has established a subcommittee for the development of a charter party clause that will address the issues related to the new regulations.
The new BIMCO Bunker Terms 2018 that were approved by the Documentary Committee last week in New York have now been published. Sample copies of the BIMCO Bunker Terms 2018 together with comprehensive explanatory notes are available from BIMCO’s website. Secure and authenticated Word copies are available from BIMCO’s contract editing systems IDEA and SmartCon.
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