Houston, The Hague,Hamburg, New Delhi, Singapore |8February
2021 – Varuna Sentinels BV is proud to announce
that it has been selected to provide IHM Maintenance Services
for theHapag-LloydFleet using its “state of the art” Cloud based
software(VSIMS) supported by inhouse team of Hazmat Experts.
Starting from 31 December 2020, ships above 500 GT and flying
the flag of an EU/EEA member state, or third-party flagged
vessels calling at European ports, must carry an Inventory Hazardous
Materials (IHM) certificate on board.IHM Maintenance
includes maintaining of IHM by tracking on-board hazardous
materials from on-boarding to off-boarding in compliance with
International Maritime Organisation (IMO) guidance contained in
Hong Kong Convention2009and European Union Ship Recycling
Regulation (EU SRR) guidelines.TheMaintenance processalsoinvolves
maritime suppliers to provide documentssuch as Material
Declarations (MDs) and Suppliers Documents of Conformity
(SDoCs)for select items whichhelps in keeping the IHM record
updated.
ABOUT VARUNA SENTINELS BV
maritime professionals, experts in Fleet management, IHM and
Sustainable Ship Recycling (SSR) with over 35+ years in experience
across the globewith offices in The Netherlands,Singapore,and
India.
Business through innovation is Varuna Sentinels’ mantra. The
company developsagile software keeping its client’srequirement
at the heart of it. Varuna Sentinels strongly believesthat inculcating
cloud computing, machine learning,and Artificial intelligence
holds the key to reinvent its business processes with increased level
of efficiency, sustainability andmake it future proof.
Varuna Sentinels’ IHM maintenance server (VSIMS) is
designed to help ship owners and managers comply with HKC
2009 and EUSRR regulations.
Varuna Sentinels’core is in staying a step ahead, using data
and record collection in the simplest and most economical way
possible without any disruption to the day-to-daymanagerial operations.
ABOUT HAPAG-LLOYD
With a total transport capacity of 1.7 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd
is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. The company
has around 13,200 employees and 388 offices in 129 countries.
Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of approximately 2.7
million TEU –including one of the largest and most modern fleets
of reefer containers.
Text by Varuna Sentinels BV
