Responding to one of the most challenging years on record, North P&I Club confirms sustainable approach to the forthcoming renewal
Describing 2021 as “one of the most challenging years on record”, North P&I Club’s latest Pre-Renewal Report, published today, calls for “robust action” in the form of increasing mutual P&I rates at the forthcoming renewal to confront the challenge of mounting claims...
Anglo-French divergence widens…
Good Morning Monaco – Thursday, November 4, 2021
Anglo-French divergence widens
It’s not just the disagreements over fishing for French trawlers in UK waters, nor the AUKUS submarine affair that saw French hopes of a major defence deal smashed, that have soured relations in recent weeks…
Neighbours’ mask measures stay
The Prefect of the neighbouring Alpes-Maritimes has announced that mask measures will stay...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/04/anglo-french-divergence-widens/
North P&I Club appoints Michael Asherson as Claims Director
North P&I Club has announced the appointment of Michael Asherson as Claims Director, in a return to the Club for one of shipping’s leading experts in maritime and insurance law after three years in private practice in his native South Africa.
Michael, who spent 18 years with North in the period up to 2018, returns to North’s Newcastle head office from 2 November to focus primarily on charter claims. The senior appointment...
Boris Johnson’s bluster on Tories supporting UK employment and wage growth blown away by massive decline in UK seafarers and the growth of poverty wages as RMT calls for summit to protect jobs
RMT, the union for UK seafarers, today released figures showing that Boris Johnson’s bluster on Tories supporting UK employment and wage growth is blown away by statistics revealing a massive decline in UK seafarer employment, compounded by poverty wages in the maritime...
First half figures show still-struggling economy…
Good Morning Monaco – Monday, September 20, 2021
First half figures show still-struggling economy
Economic figures for the second quarter of 2021 released on Friday, September 17, show a strong recovery from 2020. However, comparisons with 2019 – before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic – demonstrate a net decline in turnover in almost all sectors.
Rybolovlev loses last Swiss lawsuit
The Geneva prosecutor’s office has dropped the last legal case...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/09/20/first-half-figures-show-still-struggling-economy/
The Impact of COVID-19, Facilitative Mediation, Early Intervention, and the new Visual Online Dispute Resolution
by Rhys Clift, MCIArb[1]
This is the first of two papers published on ADR, at a particularly striking moment, as all restrictions imposed by the British Government (applicable in England) are to be lifted on 19/7/2021. This paper has just been published in the Journal of International Maritime Law (JIML) at 2021) 27 JIML page 96, on 9th July 2021. The second paper will...
RMT demands summit to resolve the crises on Scotland’s Ferries
SCOTTISH FERRIES Union RMT today urged Transport Minister Graeme Dey MSP to call an urgent Ferries Summit to involve trade unions and passengers in finding solutions to the crisis on the Clyde and Hebrides network operated by CalMac Ferries.
RMT General Secretary, Mick Lynch said:
“I am writing to repeat RMT’s demand that the Scottish Government call an urgent summit meeting to discuss the crisis...
First international treaty to address violence and harassment comes into force
The International Labour Organization is to launch a global campaign to promote ratification of the Violence and Harassment Convention.
GENEVA (ILO News) – The first international treaty on violence and harassment in the world of work comes into force on June 25th 2021 – two years after it was adopted by the ILO’s International Labour Conference (ILC).
To date, six countries have ratified the Violence and...
Policing the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the UK’s Territorial Waters
Policing the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the UK’s Territorial WatersDear AnnyThe EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (“TCA”) overcame its final political obstacle in the last few weeks, when the European Parliament approved it by a large majority. However, the practical hurdles to be overcome in order to implement it are only now becoming clear.
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