Message from the Managing Director
The vision of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) is to establish itself as a safe, efficient, and reliable national shipping organization, contributing to the sustainable development of the country’s maritime sector. Our mission is to operate and manage our fleet by prioritizing the highest standards of safety, professionalism, environmental responsibility, and compliance with all relevant international maritime conventions including the objectives of the ISM Code, Flag State and Classification Society requirements as well as enhancing operational efficiency, improving audit readiness, reducing accidents and environmental incidents. The introduction of the Cloud-based Safety Management System (SMS) for BSC fleet represents a significant step toward strengthening our safety culture in fleet operation, enhancing regulatory compliance and transparency and ensuring uniform and effective implementation of company policies across our fleet and shore-based operations for increasing organizational credibility and standard in international fleet operation club. This system is a transparent online platform developed to translate our vision and mission into effective operational practice; integrating our company safety policies, standard documentation for operating procedures, risk assessments, corrective and preventive actions in accordance with PSC observations, internal audits, and management review processes into a single, centralized framework accessible to both afloat and shore-based personnel. The system functions by enabling effective communication between ship and shore, easy and transparent alignment of operational activities with company safety policies as well as continuous monitoring of safety performance. Through data analysis and management oversight, the system supports structured and logical decision-making and proactive measures to prevent accidents and operational failures.
All afloat and shore-based personnel are instructed to understand, follow, and strictly adhere to the operational procedures of this online system and implement the integrated policies as well. We should keep in mind that safety is a shared responsibility, and the active participation, professionalism, and accountability of every individual is essential to achieving our vision and mission.
Let us work together to ensure safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible operations and to uphold the reputation of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation as a trusted and dependable national carrier. Safe fleet operation will ensure safe voyage at sea and organizational reputation of BSC in international platform as well for our own prosperity.