信德海事网-专业海事信息咨询服务平台 登录 | 注册 [ 设为首页 ] [ 加入收藏 ] 中文版 ENGLISH WeChat Mobile --> --> ENGLISH   >   ENTERPRISE --> BIMCO and Hunit pilot self-performing standard contracts to transform maritime operations 2025-12-05 11:44 By： xinde marine news 分享： --> --> --> 评论 --> --> BIMCO and Hunit have launched a joint pilot project with the aim to reduce risks, cut manual workloads and modernise the way the maritime industry works with standard contracts. The pilot project will address the industry’s challenges such as rising operational demands driven by sanctions regimes, increasing safety and emissions requirements, insurer expectations for transparency and more frequent inspections, to name a few.   Today, much of this work to is still managed through PDFs, inboxes and spreadsheets which increase manual workloads and is an obstacle to the industry’s efficiency.   The joint pilot project between BIMCO, the world's largest international shipping association and Hunit, a provider of a self-performing contract platform, will integrate Hunit’s agentic contract technology and network into BIMCO’s extensive library of standard maritime agreements. The project will apply a technology that turns standard contracts into self-managing agents, addressing efficiency and reducing risks.   To take an example, a ship approaching a Best Management Practice piracy corridor (BMP5) and facing a Port State inspection at its next call cannot today be sure that email correspondence is read in time or that co-ordination is working across time-zones. The ship’s superintendent will be checking three different systems to try to confirm that approvals, insurance coverage and payments are in place.   Embedding Hunit’s agentic contract technology in a BIMCO standard contract after it has been negotiated and finalised in SmartCon means that the agreement will record the ship’s passage plan, obtain approvals from the correct parties, run sanctions and in