The BSI Consulting and TT Club 2024 Cargo Theft Report gives an analysis of targeted commodities, prime locations for theft, regional hotspots and evolving strategies employed across the world.
The two organizations note that of the incidents analysed:
| APRIL 22, 2025 |
| GUIDANCE ON FIRE RESPONSE FOR VEHICLE CARRIERS |
| The Vehicle Carrier Safety Forum (VCSF) has recently published its second industry good practice guidelines entitled, Fire Response – High Level Guidelines. The VCSF recognizes that responding to vehicle fires onboard pure car carriers, pure car and truck carriers, roll-on/roll-off vessels and roll-on/roll-off passenger vessels is both dangerous and challenging. These guidelines have been designed to reduce the... |
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/22/american-club-member-alert-april-22-2025/
Day/date 2025, London: Today – the Vehicle Carrier Safety Forum (VCSF) publishes its second industry good practice guidelines entitled ‘Fire Response – High Level Guidelines’. The VCSF recognises that responding to vehicle fires onboard PCCs, PCTCs, RoRo and Ro-Pax vessels is both dangerous and challenging. These guidelines have been designed to reduce the risk to the safety of crews, passengers, the environment, the vessel and the cargo. The guideline’s sole aim is to assist vessel operators...
An analysis of TT Club, international freight and cargo handling insurer, says that fire accounts for one-fifth of all losses and damage to port equipment, posing a significant safety risk to workers and terminal users.
TT Club is urging cargo handling and terminal operators to recognize fire as a major threat to port and terminal equipment. A review of the insurer’s claims data over the past decade shows that nearly 1,600 fire-related claims were recorded, with approximately 19% involving such...
https://container-news.com/fire-risks-at-ports-tt-club-warns-of-ongoing-threat/
The previous year was the hottest on record globally, with reinsurer Swiss Re reporting natural catastrophe losses exceeding US$100 billion for the fifth consecutive year.
According to the Financial Times, 37 extreme weather events in the prior year resulted in losses exceeding US$1 billion each. Projections indicate that insured losses could potentially double within the next decade.
In Europe, disruptions to cargo transport via waterways continued to escalate. In June, the Rhine experienced...
https://container-news.com/rising-risks-to-inland-waterways-climate-resilience-needed/
Earlier this month, the UK’s House of Commons held a debate that underscored the significant impact of freight crime on public safety and the UK economy, particularly its future growth, a priority for the current Government.
The discussion also highlighted the insufficient resources allocated to combatting freight crime effectively concluding that England’s National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) is critically under-resourced and underfunded. Its dedicated freight crime...
https://container-news.com/tt-club-commends-uk-efforts-to-bolster-freight-crime-resources/
Ports, terminals, and logistics facilities are typically designed to accommodate large vehicles and cargo-handling equipment.
The introduction of smaller, more vulnerable road users like e-bikes and e-scooters presents unique challenges. These vehicles are less visible, making traffic management and the prevention of human-machine collisions much more difficult. Typically, terminal traffic layouts and pavement conditions, are designed for large vehicles and plants, not for smaller, more ...
https://container-news.com/e-bikes-are-a-greener-alternative-but-terminal-operators-beware/
After five years as Chief Executive of TT Club and 15 years leading Thomas Miller’s Singapore operations, Yiah Soon (YS) Ng has announced his retirement.
Ng was succeeded by Kamel Tlili, TT Club’s Regional General Manager for Asia Pacific, who assumed the role in September.
Kamel Tlili, who became Regional General Manager of Asia Pacific a year ago, will also serve as Chief Executive of TT Club’s Singapore Branch. A well-established figure in the marine mutual community, Tlili previously spent 14...
https://container-news.com/tt-club-announces-leadership-change-at-singapore-branch/
Following a recent series of fires aboard container ships, TT Club, an international freight and logistics insurance provider, has emphasized the urgent need for all participants in the global supply chain to ensure accurate and effective communication when transporting dangerous goods.
The past four months have seen four major incidents involving container ships—two in port and two at sea—which have led TT Club to reinforce its longstanding call for shippers and supply chain facilitators to...
https://container-news.com/tt-club-urges-unified-action-to-combat-rising-container-ship-fires/
Understanding the circumstances that lead to stack collapses and losses overboard is crucial in mitigating these risks.
TT applauds the World Shipping Council’s initiative to publish the annual container loss survey details and acknowledges the record-low losses reported in 2023. Notably, around 33% of initially lost containers are subsequently recovered.
However, TT’s own analysis of historical incidents highlights that weather remains the most significant factor influencing these events. The...
https://container-news.com/tt-club-intensifies-efforts-to-prevent-container-losses/