Latest news from the marine insurance sector
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- Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd bring another container shipping service back to Suez November 3, 2026Denmark-based shipping group Maersk said on Monday that another of its joint container services with Germany's Hapag-Lloyd will resume sailings through the Suez Canal ....
- Al Mayeda attack generates robust responses from Pakistan, Qatar November 3, 2026The Iranian attack on LNG tanker Al Mayeda (IMO 9397298) (see yesterday’s IMN), which Martin Kelly, CEO of Orbital Risk Intelligence, reported was hit by three Iranian projectiles about ....
- UAE offshore tug hit in Strait of Hormuz November 3, 2026A UAE-owned offshore tug / supply ship was hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz – the second attack on a support vessel in recent weeks in the area – somewhere northwest .....
- Tanker hit by two projectiles on Sunday Night November 1st November 3, 2026A chemical / oil products tanker was hit overnight November 1st/2nd by two projectiles at a position about 70nm to the east of Ras Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia, at the northwest end of the ....
- Missing midnight: Banking days, time zones and contractual deadlines November 3, 2026Christina Moh of Steamship Mutual has written on the broader implications of the recent Commercial Court decision in the case Songa Product and Chemical Tankers IV AS v Gardsea ....
- Compensation still being processed for families of fishermen who died in 2022 sinking November 3, 2026The insurer of Spanish fishing trawler Villa de Pitanxo (IMO 9098244), along with the shipowner Pesquerías Nores Marín and the captain Juan Padín Costas, was reported to have ....
- Fatigue and “familiar” work are blamed for serious crew injuries November 3, 2026A ship boiler blowback on a vessel last year highlighted the risks “when familiar work becomes unfamiliar”, New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) has ....
- Escalating attacks heighten level of uncertainty in dry bulk sector, says BIMCO November 3, 2026Geopolitical disruptions were continuing to affect the outlook for the dry bulk market, according to Filipe Gouveia, Shipping Analysis Manager at BIMCO. “The effective closure of ....
- Can a ship be unseaworthy because its Master or crew are incompetent? November 3, 2026Britannia Club has written on the case of the Happy Aras EWHC 7 (Admlty), in which the English Admiralty Court was asked to determine the Owners’ claim against cargo interests for ....
- Marine round-up : 3rd November 2026 November 3, 2026Bulgaria’s Navy Hydrographic Service has posted on its NAVWARN board notice 779/26, reporting that four containers had been detected floating in the Black Sea east of Burgas Bay ....