Marine Insurance Legal
Covering the latest law firm activity in the marine insurance sector.
- PIL hit with $3m penalty for waste dumping January 12, 2021Singapore-based Pacific International Lines (PIL) has agreed to pay $3m in criminal penalties for illegally dumping waste oil into the ocean at Guam’s Apra Harbour ....
- New regulations coming into force in first half of 2021 January 12, 2021Gard Loss Prevention Executive Siddharth Mahajan, based in Singapore, has compiled a useful list of some of the more important international regulations that enter into force up to July 2021 ....
- Nave Andromeda stowaways will not face charges January 11, 2021Seven men will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight. The UK Special Boat Service (SBS) stormed crude oil tanker Nave Andromeda ....
- AMSA bans Barkly Pearl from Australian waters for two years January 11, 2021The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned livestock carrier Barkly Pearl (IMO 9042295) from Australian waters for two years. The penalty is AMSA's most severe banning to date .....
- Possession order in light of the Megacore Honami January 7, 2021P&I Club Skuld has noted in a legal article that a reminder for alternative enforcement action, other than arrest, was that of securing a possession order via an interim ....
- Two men charged over Nave Andromeda hijack incident January 4, 2021Two men appeared in court last week as part of the ongoing investigation into the maritime security incident that took place on board crude oil tanker Nave Andromeda (IMO 9580405) .....
- General Average ruling in English court December 24, 2020A ruling has been handed down in the case of Herculito Maritime Ltd v Gunvor International BV that refers to the relevance of insurance provisions to cargo interests’ liability to contribute .....
- South Africa loses state immunity claim over cargo of silver bars December 23, 2020Quadrant Chambers has reported that Liisa Lahti was part of the legal team that successfully resisted South Africa’s claims of state immunity in respect of a cargo of silver bars ....
- New customs law in Egypt December 22, 2020UK Club’s correspondents in Egypt, Middle East Survey & Control Office (MESCO), have drawn UK Club members’ attention to a new Customs Law, which came into effect in Egypt on November .....
- Lebanese ex-ministers snub Lebanese courts after being charged over Beirut blast December 18, 2020Two former Lebanese ministers who have been charged by a local judge with negligence as part of the devastating explosion at Beirut port in August, which killed 200 people, snubbed a judge on ....