In a Marine Insurance Nordics roundtable last week, entitled All Aboard for Data Analytics, hosted by AdvantageGo and moderated by Thomas Andersson, Director of Sales, AdvantageGo, the participants agreed that sharing of data within the industry was desirable, but warned that considerations of...
UK Club has said that Egypt’s reduced compensation claim for almost $600m to free ULCV Ever Given to cover related losses was still “exceptionally large”. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) reduced its demand from $916m in an effort to settle out of court, SCA head Osama Rabie told TV network MBC Masr...
Maritime security and risk analysis specialist Dryad Global has warned that an insurgency by a militant group in Mozambique had begun to pose a serious maritime security threat. On March 24th the Islamic State-linked militant group Ansar al-Sunna launched an attack on the northern Mozambique...
On May 5th, 23,112 teu container ship CMA CGM Jacques Saadé (IMO 9839179) made its first official voyage through a deepened and widened navigation channel that gives access to the Port of Hamburg. CMA CGM Jacques Saadé is 400 metres long and 62 metres wide. The improved draft means that the ship...
Transport Canada has issued SSB No. 05/2021 – Protecting the North Atlantic right whale: speed restriction measures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This advises of changes to the speed restriction zones, effective from April 28th 2021 to November 15th 2021. The restricted area will be implemented...
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The US Coast Guard has confirmed that MSIB 02-21 CH-1, issued on March 22nd this year, which requires that masks be worn aboard commercial vessels and at seaports, remains the controlling guidance on the topic, stated Rick Beaumont, Senior Claims Executive at Standard Club. The Centers for Disease...
UK Club has noted that the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) has introduced tougher safe management measures at PSA Singapore terminals for contactless (segregated) cargo operations. The actions, which were announced at the end of April and which came into force on May 3rd, are a response to the...
W E Cox Claims Group has updated on container ship Interasia Catalyst (IMO 9439711), which suffered a container fire shortly after leaving Port Klang, Malaysia, on April 7th (IMN, April 13th 2021). The vessel remains detained at anchorage off Port Klang. Salvage services were provided by SMIT...
In its World Drug Report 2020 the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stated that illicit drug use had been on the increase in the five-year period to 2019. UNODC reported that Colombia remained the country where most coca leaf (used to produce cocaine) was grown, accounting for about 70% of the...
Steamship Mutual’s Ross Millar has written on a loss prevention matter where one of the club’s members was caught out by a rule on the use of lasers in US waters. He said that recently a vessel on passage towards Los Angeles had spotted a high-speed craft approaching on a potential collision...