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West P&I Club, a global leader in marine insurance, has today launched West Piracy Protection to help owners manage the evolving threat of piracy in high-risk waters. The new … |
https://maritime-professionals.com/introducing-new-piracy-protection-product/
West P&I has appointed Gina Panayiotou as its environmental, social and governance (ESG) manager. In that role she will be responsible for reviewing the P&I club’s approach to sustainability, people and governance, and for developing and implementing a strategy that supports its commitment to ESG.
A maritime lawyer, Panayiotou has held senior roles ranging from legal manager at a leading shipowner to global head of shipping and energy for a multijurisdictional law firm and in-house legal counsel...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/shipping/west-pi-appoints-esg-manager/
After 27 years in the role, Joe Hughes will stand down as CEO of American P&I Club managing company, Shipowners Claims Bureau Inc. (SCB), on August 1. Succeeding him as CEO will be Dorothea Ioannou, who is currently deputy COO at SCB.
She will be the first woman to hold a top executive position at an International Group P&I club in the 167-year history of the marine mutuals.
In other transitional moves, Vince Solarino will step down as COO of SCB after a similar length of services as Hughes....
https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/shipping/leadership-transition-at-american-pi-club/
Conditions that have led observers to predict that further consolidation in the industry was likely.
Today, two well-known players—North P&I and Standard Club—said they had entered formal discussions for a proposed merger to create a new global marine insurer and one of the largest providers of mutual cover in the maritime industries. With 300 years of shared P&I heritage, the combined mutual insurer would provide cover for vessels equivalent to 400 million GT.
They say the merger would help the...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/shipping/major-pi-merger-in-the-works-for-new-marine-insurer/
Gothenburg, Sweden-headquartered marine mutual insurer the Swedish Club is to appoint Thomas Nordberg to succeed Lars Rhodin as managing director from January 1, 2022, when Rhodin retires.
Nordberg is a former head of claims services at Noway’s Gard P&I. He holds an L.L.M., Master of Law, from the University of Lund, Sweden, and has studied maritime law at the Institute of Maritime Law in Oslo.
“The Board of Directors is delighted to have recruited Nordberg, who has close to 30 years’ experience...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/change-of-leadership-at-swedish-club/
On Tuesday, the Swedish Club celebrated its 149th birthday. Today, the insurer announced a general Increase of 12.5% for 2022, saying that the move reflects the unique challenges currently faced by the P&I insurance market. In line with other members of the International Group, and with a backdrop of pricing inadequacy in the P&I sector, the board agreed the increase as a necessary step to maintain the long-term strength of the club.
At the board meeting in Gothenburg, managing director Lars...
As the north protection and indemnity insurance (P&I) club informs, it is well known that presence of pilot on the bridge doesn’t relieve the master or officer in charge of the watch from their duties for the safety of the ship. There are many cases where the master gives control to the pilot or fails to challenge potentially unsafe instruction, sometimes resulting in an incident.
To Follow Or Not To FollowAccording to the P & I club, if a pilot informs the master to perform the manoeuvre that...
According to a Hard article written by their Senior Loss Prevention Executive Jarle Fosen, the year ahead looks forward to growing zero emission trends as witnessed by Fosen in a visit to the Yara Birkeland, the first fully battery operated container vessel designed for autonomous operation.
Here’s an excerpt from what he has written in the Gard article.
Visiting World’s First Zero Emission ContainerOn 17 December, my colleagues and I were thrilled to be welcomed onboard the Yara Birkeland, the...
https://mfame.guru/onboard-worlds-first-fully-electric-zero-emission-container-vessel/