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STATISTICS p B teRfORMINg ulk eRMINals and always safe to the ship and/or crew. crease in participating parties, to date there is insuffcient data to • Three stars: Average – A typical standard of terminal draw solid statistical conclusions and make substantiated state- with the ship experiencing both good and bad. ments on dry bulk terminals and their performance. Nor can BIM- Howe ver, in general, the services, equipment CO express anything defnite with regard to trends, and there was and/arrangements were safe and overall met expectations. insuffcient foundation for drawing conclusions on geographical • Two stars: Fair – The standard of the services, or regional differences. The report does indicate a generally high equipment and/arrangements was below average and standard of dry bulk terminals with a good or excellent overall per- in some areas, safety needs to be improved. formance, as well as the quality of the terminals and equipment.

• One star: Poor – The standard was unacceptable or BIMCO invites more ships to submit reports. More reports will unsafe for the ship and/or crew. ultimately help to create a better tool for offces in the process of fxing cargoes. It will also enable BIMCO to act whenever poor

Warnings will be shown if the terminal has received poor performances are reported at a dry bulk terminal. Future plans, be- ratings as will praise if the performance has been rated ex- yond achieving at least 1,000 participating vessels, include com- cellent. This year the lowest weighting was given to terminal municating with terminals and other stakeholders with the aim of equipment and services. improving procedures and best practices. Moreover, BIMCO also insists that if they receive more results, which are deemed unac- ceptable or unsafe for the ship and/or crew, that the organization

Conclusion

The report comes with caveats. Even with the substantial in- will take action to encourage terminals to make improvements.

Figure 1: The map shows that 80 countries had terminals, which are included in the vetng scheme

BIMCO plans to publish this report annually. The current BIMCO Dry Bulk Terminals

Vetting Report 2017 is available free of charge to download at: www.bimco.org.

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