In her presentation to IUMI at the online conference being held instead of the scheduled face to face meeting in Stockholm, Astrid Seltmann, vice-chair and analyst/actuary at CEFOR, said that losses in the offshore energy sector remained low, with modest or no major impact from the hurricane...
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IUMI 2020: Matcham presents first results from the three-year Major Claims Database project
Dave Matcham CEO of the International Underwriting Association (IUA) and secretary of IUMI’s Facts & Figures committee, was clearly a happy man to be able to present the first tangible results from IUMI’s Major Claims Database project. Announced at the 2018 in South Africa, there were initially six...
IUMI Committee notes bounce in activity since lowpoints
In his report on World Merchant Fleet and World Trade yesterday, Philip Graham, chairman of the Facts & Figures Committee at the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) observed that there had been a bounceback in activity since the dark days of earlier in the year. After reporting that Jun...
Pressure to resume search for the 40 crew missing from Gulf Livestock 1
Social media pressure is increasing to get more countries involved in the search operation for the missing 40 crew from the Gulf Livestock 1, which sank in the East China Sea off southern Japan on September 2nd after encountering Typhoon Maysak. The Japan Coast Guard is still searching, using boats...
Marine accident round-up : 15th September 2020
23,000 teu container ship MSC Mia (IMO 9839466) allided with a gantry crane while leaving the MSC container terminal at Valencia during the morning of September 13th. The crane collapsed and the crane operator suffered injuries. He was rescued by the fire brigade and taken to hospital. After the...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/marine-accident-round-up-15th-september-2020/
Salvors repair tank breaches in New Diamond
Salvors have boarded the fire-stricken VLCC New Diamond (IMO 9191424) and have begun repair work on the ruptured fuel oil tank in the engine room the vessel, the Sri Lankan Navy has reported. The supertanker was 52nm east of the Sri Lankan coast, Navy spokesman Indika de Silva told Reuters....
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/salvors-repair-tank-breaches-in-new-diamond/
Maersk Etienne migrants come ashore in Sicily
The 25 migrants who had been stranded aboard products tanker Maersk Etienne (IMO 9274642) for more than a month, sleeping on deck with minimal protection and facilities, have been allowed to disembark in Sicily, Italy. The migrants went ashore in the port town of Pozzallo on Saturday September...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/maersk-etienne-migrants-come-ashore-in-sicily/
Formal public hearing on Golden Ray capsizing starts today
The US Coast Guard, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Marshall Islands Maritime Administrator and the South Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal are scheduled today (September 14th) to begin a formal public hearing at the Marshes of Glynn Library (Brunswick-Glynn County) in...
New Diamond is boarded by salvors, Sri Lankan Navy
A team of experts from the Sri Lankan Navy and Smit Salvage has boarded fire-damaged VLCC New Diamond (IMO 9191424) for the first time, after several days of fighting fires on board. A fire broke out on September 3rd following an explosion of a boiler in the ship’s main engine room. It has...
Families of lost crew members urge continuation of search
Families of crew who were on the sunken Gulf Livestock 1 (IMO 9262883) have urged authorities to resume their search and rescue operations. The vessel sunk in a typhoon off southern Japan on September 2nd. Poor weather since then has restricted to a handful the number of days on which a search took...