Marine insurer Gard has noted that a number of fatalities and serious injuries had occurred across the maritime industry due to parting of mooring lines. It has printed a loss prevention poster (First lines ashore! Do we understand the risk?) which highlights the fact that the first line ashore has...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/gard-warns-on-parting-of-mooring-lines/
The European Investment Bank, the lending arm of the EU, has said that it expects to keep its lending in Turkey heavily restricted in 2020. An EU row with Turkey over oil and gas drilling off Cyprus shows no sign of being settled and could even be getting worse. The EIB supplied Turkey with almost…
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The Jif Helios landed more containers with products recovered from the CDRY Blue on January 18th. Meanwhile the preparation of the salvage plan for the CDRY Blue was still being awaited. Pending the preparation of the recovery plan by SMIT Salvage, personnel of the maritime district office of...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/marine-accident-round-up-24th-january-2020/
North of England has updated its list of ports which have restrictions on scrubbers. It noted that exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) – more commonly referred to as scrubbers – were an accepted equivalent measure in complying with the IMO 2020 global sulphur cap. However, ports around the world...
A seawater fire extinguishing system that had been installed as an additional safety precaution on passenger ship Ytterøyningen (IMO 9371531) could have contributed to escalating events that led to an explosion that struck the vessel on October 11th 2019. It followed an onboard fire the previous...
The P&I Clubs are beginning to offer advice on how Members should react to the recent outbreak of 2019-mCoV (coronoavirus) in Wuhan, China, which has now spread internationally. However, given the relatively early stage of the epidemic, any advice given has tended to be generic in nature, including...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/clubs-offer-advice-on-new-coronavirus/
South Korea’s military has said it plans to expand the deployment of an anti-piracy unit now operating off the coast of Africa to the area around the Strait of Hormuz. South Korea had been debating the prospect. The decision to divert a navy unit already in operation southwest of the Arabian...
Eight crew members of chemical/oil products tanker Happy Lady (IMO 9644225) who were kidnapped off Nigeria on December 30th 2019 were released on January 22nd. All were reported safe and healthy. The Greek shipping ministry announced on Wednesday that the crew had been released after successful...
Alfons Håkans successfully refloated 101metre barge Trias on January 19th. She broke loose from towing vessel Raduga Europe (IMO 8518168) on December 31st. The barge had become stuck in a protected Natura 2000 area near Ventspils. The preparations for salvage, led by Salvage Master Pekka Arasola,...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/marine-accident-round-up-23rd-january-2020/
In its Marine PI Market Pre-Renewal Update broker AJ Gallagher has said that it was possible that P&I Clubs collectively could report further increases in free reserves as at renewal date, February 20th 2020. “How long this will last is, of course, the eternal question but should the Clubs be...