Marine Cargo Insurance
Covering the latest cargo and freight related insurance news and analysis from across the globe.
- Marine accident round-up : 21st September 2020 September 21, 2020Seven crew members of crude oil tanker Cabo Victoria (IMO 9778674) tested positive for Covid-19 while it was moored in Quintero Bay, Chile. A further 13 were carrying out preventive quarantine ....
- Bay of Campeche piracy warning from JWC September 18, 2020The Joint War Committee (JWC) has issued an advisory that notes the increased criminal activity in the Bay of Campeche. Off the Atlantic coast of Mexico. It said that offshore assets were ...
- China could enforce blank sailing ban September 18, 2020China was reported to be considering forbidding ocean carriers to cancel sailings from China in an attempt to blunt the recent spike in transpacific rates, which reached an eight-year reports ....
- Marine accident round-up : 18th September 2020 September 18, 2020Hopper dredger Queen Of The Netherlands (IMO 9164031),was reported to have been attacked by boats with hundreds of fishermen and activists on September 12th while the vessel was off Makassar ....
- “No problems” observed by foreman prior to Golden Ray incident September 17, 2020A foreman who oversees dock workers at the shipping terminal for vehicles in the port of Brunswick, Georgia, has said that he saw no problems as hundreds of cars and trucks were being loaded ....
- Towing of the New Diamond continues September 17, 2020Tug Boka Expedition took over the towing of striken tankship New Diamond (IMO 9191424) on September 13th. Other ships involved in the response off Sri Lanka have been patrol boat Waruna ....
- Marine accident round-up : 17th September 2020 September 17, 2020A third crew member on cruise ship Seven Seas Splendor (IMO 9807085) has reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. The mener of staff returned a positive test on September 15th ....
- Pressure to resume search for the 40 crew missing from Gulf Livestock 1 September 16, 2020Social media pressure is increasing to get more countries involved in the search operation for the missing 40 crew from the Gulf Livestock 1, which sank in the East China Sea off southern Japan ....
- IUMI Committee notes bounce in activity since lowpoints September 16, 2020In his report on World Merchant Fleet and World Trade yesterday, Philip Graham, chairman of the Facts & Figures Committee at the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) observed that ....
- IUMI 2020: Signs of recovery in 2019, but Covid-19 left everything in state of uncertainty: Seltmann September 16, 2020In her presentation to IUMI at the online conference being held instead of the scheduled face to face meeting in Stockholm, Astrid Seltmann, vice-chair and analyst/actuary at CEFOR, said that .....