Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), the technical ship manager of containership Ever Given (IMO: 9811000), has asked the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) to release three of the crew members on board. BSM said that the 25 Indian national crew members currently on the vessel were all safe, in good...
Norway-based Gard has released an alert, with details supplied by Jeremy Joseph and Matthew Van Huizen of Joseph & Partners, which reminds Gard members of the current situation regarding anchoring off the Malaysian coast. Gard noted that during the past few weeks several vessels entered with Gard...
International Group (IG) has informed member clubs of the approval of the TradeLens eBL system. Since 20 February 2010 liabilities arising in respect of the carriage of cargo under certain paperless trading systems were covered, provided that the system had first been approved by the Group. Since...
Chinese officials have said that they were considering siphoning the remaining cargo at sea from Suezmax oil tanker A Symphony (IMO 9249324), which spilled about 400 tonnes of oil into the Yellow Sea after colliding with cargo ship Sea Justice (IMO 9309514) during the morning local time on April...
Container ship Contship New’ (IMO 9373905), which was en route from Owendo to Lome, but with its AIS reportedly having been switched off to avoid detection, nevertheless came under pirate attack on April 23rd when the vessel was 220 miles southwest of Bonny in the Gulf of Guinea (IMN, April 26th)....
There are too many seafarers on ships unable to go home, to transit from their ships to ports, and society has to be aware of the risk we are taking when we are not allowing crew to transit, according to Rolf Thore Roppestad, CEO of marine insurer and International Group P&I Club Gard, who gave…
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The collision between Suezmax oil tanker A Symphony (IMO 9249324) and general cargo ship Sea Justice (IMO 9309514) during the morning local time on April 27th in the Yellow Sea south of Qingdao, China looks to have resulted in cargo and ballast tanks being breached with some of the cargo spilling...
In the Marine Insurance Asia Panel on “Enabling a Sustainable Industry” the moderator John Gibson, Director of Asia, Marine Engineer, Brookes Bell, asked the panellists about problems with the retention of crew. He asked how people at sea could be kept motivated. Live Jacob Sydness, Vice President, Sustainable Business, Gard AS, said that decent working…
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Outgoing global head of marine broking at Willis Towers Watson David Ripton is set to join Lockton, Insurance Insider has reported. Ripton’s resignation from WTW was reported earlier this month. Ripton joined WTW as Head of Broking, Global Marine in its Corporate Risk and Broking (CRB) unit in...
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Three US officials filed a criminal complaint on April 23rd charging the owner of tankship Courageous (IMO 8617524) with conspiring to evade economic sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and money laundering conspiracy. Audrey Strauss, US Attorney for the Southern District of New...
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