TY - JOUR N2 - The concept of a Ship Management is vaguely known in the Polish law and legal doctrine although the role of the Ship Manager has become quite complex through the years. It started in the eighties when there was a deep change in the shipping market as many shipping companies became bankrupt and mortgagor banks had to turn to ship managers for help. Thirty years ago in 1988 BIMCO published the first Ship Management Contract which provided the market with a standard document striking a fair balance between the rights and obligations of the owners and the managers, giving some uniformity in the widely used in-house contracts, particularly in the apportionment of liability between parties. After the implementation of the ISM Code in 1998 and creating the entity called “Company” as a subject responsible for a safe operation of a vessel the ship manager’s role rose extremely. It caused, among other factors, that BIMCO issued the world wide known form of contract named SHIPMAN 98, which was then superseded by its new version issued in 2009. The main goal of this article is to bring a reader closer to the issue of a Ship Management and the Ship Manager through a Polish translation of this modern BIMCO form named SHIPMAN 2009. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109799/PDF/luczywek.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109799 PY - 2018 IS - No XXXIV EP - 209 DO - 10.24425/pm.2018.125832 KW - ship manager KW - ship management KW - technical management KW - crew management KW - commercial management KW - SHIPMAN KW - shipping company A1 - Łuczywek, Cezary PB - Oddział PAN w Gdańsku DA - 2018.12.17 T1 - Ship Manager - a new subject of maritime law. SHIPMAN 2009 contract in Polish translation SP - 137 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109799 T2 - Prawo Morskie ER -