Safety, quality, environment

Safety, quality and environmental protection are cornerstones of the corporate philosophy of E.R. Schiffahrt 

Our modern safety and quality management system is geared to the following four criteria and forms the framework for the work of each and every employee:

• Safety of crew, ships, environment and cargo
• Compliance with national and international regulations and legislation 
• Ensuring consistently high quality 
• Optimal economic efficiency

High safety standards
High safety standards ensure that any threats and risks to crew, ships, environment, cargo, and thereby for our customers, are kept as low as possible. Compliance with national and international rules and regulations is an essential basis for doing so.

Stringent quality management
A stringent quality management system ensures the consistently high quality of our services and identifies new potential for optimisation.

Risk management system
In the interest of our customers and partners all activities are monitored by means of an operations management system (controlling) to ensure implementation of improvements with a maximum operating efficiency. Moreover, E.R. Schiffahrt complies with a risk management system monitoring and adjusting risks and measures on a continuous basis.

All company employees are constantly working to improve and further enhance our high quality standards and to harness further potential to optimise quality and safety.

Certified by Germanischer Lloyd
E.R. Schiffahrt’s safety and quality management is certified by Germanischer Lloyd in accordance with the International Safety Management code to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004.

Environmentally sound ship recycling
In addition, the container vessel "E.R. Los Angeles" is the world’s first vessel to fulfil the future requirements of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in respect of environmentally sound ship recycling. In a pilot project supported by Germanischer Lloyd, an inventory of hazardous materials has been drawn up. By the terms of the IMO convention, these are materials that were commonly used at such time for construction of ships or parts of its equipment, however now expected to posing a potential threat to the environment. Such material has been recorded systematically, and this registration and localisation are a core concern of the IMO convention.