An investigation into two separate workplace deaths at New Zealand ports by the Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) has noted that people who work in high-risk industries who are not exposed to regular adverse events tend to become desensitized to the risk involved. The report as a...
Starr Indemnity has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against shipping line Maersk, asking for more than $5.8m in compensation, as subrogee of retailer Target, for containers lost overboard, reports Law360. The 13,100 teu Maersk Eindhoven (IMO 9456771) was one of several container...
Canada-based union Unifor, which represents more than 350 workers on the St Lawrence Seaway workers, returned to the bargaining table on Friday, a day after formal talks were scheduled to conclude, and said that it remained committed to negotiating. However, the likelihood of a strike was seen to...
Illegal drugs are perceived to be arriving in Europe from South America in massive quantities, and attempts thus far to stem the tide have been of limited effectiveness. Even if the major ports have made some headway, the smugglers have switched to “second tier” ports. If ships arriving from South...
LNG vessel Seapeak Catalunya (IMO 9236420) has left an export terminal in Egypt either unloaded or only partially loaded, possibly in order to avoid the spike in war risk insurance that it would have to pay otherwise, reports Bloomberg. Meanwhile, another tanker has sailed to Eilat on the Red Sea...
The cost of shipping along the River Rhine has increased because declining water levels have reduced barges’ carrying capacity. The measured water level at the river’s Kaub chokepoint near Frankfurt fell to 67cm late last week, the lowest for the time of year since 2018. The cost of shipping fuel...
David K Smith, 55, of Paducah, Kentucky, River Marine Enterprises, LLC, and Western River Assets, LLC, all pleaded guilty on October 17th to the discharge of refuse into navigable waters, according to documents from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, reports and...
Last week the US took a new step in its attempt to keep the price cap on Russian oil under control. It sanctioned two named vessels – crude oil tanker SCF Primorye (IMO 9421960) and the Yasa Golden Bosphorus (IMO 9334038) (IMN October 16th). Unfortunately the action brought into the spotlight the...
The managers of American Club, New York-based Shipowners Claims Bureau, said that it had recently been informed by one of its approved PEME clinics in Romania that there were fraudulent American Club PEME certificates in circulation. The Club recommended that Members “remain diligent and check the...
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London-based chambers Quadrant has released a new set of “Quadrant Back in Ten” (QBiT) videos explaining fundamental aspects of the shipping sector’s areas of legal interest. Each video is a specific commercial disputes topic in the form of a 10-minute bitesize ‘what you need to know’ offering....