Joint Supervision in China to Improve the Safety Level of Shipping Companies

Recently issued "Opinions of the General Office of the Ministry of Transport on Further Strengthening the Safety Management of Shipping Companies" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), it is clear that all levels of waterway transport management departments and maritime management agencies should cooperate closely to form a joint regulatory force to jointly promote waterway transport and ship management business enterprises (hereinafter referred to as shipping companies) to improve safety management level.


The Opinion calls for the full implementation of the main responsibility of shipping companies for safety in production, strict control over standardized management, ship quality and personnel employment, strict adherence to honest operation, and encouragement of shipping companies to manage their own ships and crews and establish their own safety management system.


Waterway transport management departments should adhere to the principle of territorial management, conscientiously implement the responsibilities of industry management, strictly control the access of waterway transport market, establish and improve a new type of waterway transport market supervision mechanism based on credit supervision and supplemented by "double random, one open" as the basic means, key supervision as the supplement.


Maritime administrative agencies should strictly implement the responsibility of safety supervision and control, strictly control the customs of navigation management, ship management, crew management, danger prevention management and ship inspection management, do a good job of safety management system audit and safety supervision and inspection of shipping companies, establish classification and grading management system of shipping companies, and implement differentiated management of shipping companies.


The Opinion emphasizes that waterway transport management departments and maritime administrative agencies at all levels should strengthen joint supervision, inform each other of information, actively participate in the construction of "Credit China" and "Credit Traffic", establish a cooperative mechanism with banking and Insurance Regulatory bodies, and guide banks and insurance institutions to set loan quotas and premiums in accordance with the principle of risk pricing and the credit situation of shipping companies. Implementing differential treatment in price and other aspects will promote shipping companies to improve their safety management level.