Marine Liability
The latest liability related news, regulation and analysis from the marine insurance sector. Updates of the changes all classes of marine and related support operations.
- New Indian rules on ship ages unlikely to have much impact on global merchant fleet:research January 27, 2023Athens, Greece-based Xclusiv Shipbrokers has broken down what the new Indian rules on ship ages (IMN, January 25th) will mean in practice, and have concluded that they will probably have .....
- New app for evidence gathering from North January 27, 2023North P&I Club has launched a mobile app which it said would make easier the gathering of evidence. It said that the app would make the collecting of evidence on incidents faster, easier ....
- Silver nitrate testing of cargo holds for carriage of steel cargoes January 27, 2023American Club has noted that silver nitrate testing for the presence of sodium chloride (salt) in cargo holds prior to loading was an important practice to prevent claims for damage to .....
- New probe into 1994 sinking of the Estonia reveals construction flaws January 27, 2023Officials have said that a new investigation into the sinking of the ferry Estonia in the Baltic Sea in 1994, which claimed 852 lives, had revealed flaws in its bow visor construction that .....
- Marine accident round-up : 27th January 2023 January 27, 2023General cargo ship Peak Skorpo (IMO 9190353) was reported to have run aground whilst navigating the Nakskov Fjord, Denmark on January 23rd. Claims company WK Webster understood that .....
- Two dead, nine missing after ship sinks off Japan January 26, 2023As many as 11 crew were feared dead after 9,484 dwt general cargo ship Jin Tian (IMO 9578713) sank in icy waters between South Korea and Japan early on Wednesday January 25th ....
- Chinese freighter runs aground on Japanese coral reef January 26, 2023Chinese general cargo ship Xin Hai Zhou 2 (IMO 9507104) ran aground on a giant coral reef just off the Japanese island of Ishigaki, an outpost in Okinawa Prefecture that is located about .....
- Bulk carrier suffers water ingress off Queensland coast January 26, 2023Australian authorities responded to a call for assistance from bulk carrier Frontier Unity (IMO 9604976) while it was anchored near a coal port in Queensland ....
- Smooth Sea 22 was not the ship it claimed to be January 26, 2023When Thai-flagged oil products tanker Smooth Sea 22 (IMO 9870991) suffered an explosion and a subsequent fire on January 17th, few realized that the event would expose a case of .....
- French authorities hunt for source of plastic pellet spill January 26, 2023Environmental authorities in France are reported to be concerned at a wave of plastic nurdles that have been washing up on the shores of Brittany. The source vessel is unknown ....