Retail Marine Insurance
Covering news from the retail marine business including claims on yachts and super-yachts.
- Hondius books in at Hook of Holland May 20, 2026Boutique cruise ship Hondius (IMO 9818709) arrived at Hoek van Holland at 10:00 local time on May 18th, on its way to the Port of Rotterdam. The ship had been scheduled to arrive ....
- Cruise ship owners concerned at “mega-tsunami” risk in Alaska Glacier fjords May 20, 2026There was a huge landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord on August 10th 2025, but it happened at a time when no person or ship was nearby ....
- UK nationals on virus-hit cruise ship will isolate at Wirral hospital site May 11, 2026British passengers and staff aboard boutique cruise ship Hondius (IMO 9818709) will be brought to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral, Merseyside, to isolate after charter flights transfer .....
- Three cruise ship passengers die in suspected hantavirus outbreak May 5, 2026Three people have died and a UK national was seriously ill in a South African hospital after a suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a small cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The operator of the MV...
- US Limitation of Liability Act: meeting the covered small passenger boat exception April 30, 2026Genevieve Holloway of Steamship Mutual has written on the implications of the small passenger-boat exception within the limitation of liability act, deriving from the historic Limitation of ....
- Russian superyacht sails through Strait of Hormuz April 29, 2026Russia-flagged superyacht Nord (IMO 9853785) which is linked to sanctioned Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov, has crossed the Strait of Hormuz. It travelled from Dubai to Muscat .....
- All cruise ships are out of the Persian Gulf April 22, 2026The Aroya (IMO 9733117), the last of six cruise ships that had been trapped in the Persian Gulf since February 28th, has made it out into the open sea. The vessel is part of a cruise ship operation...
- Five cruise ships escape Persian Gulf after being trapped for 47 days April 20, 2026Taking advantage of the relative calm with the current ceasefire and reports that the Strait of Hormuz was open, five of the six cruise ships that had been caught in the Persian Gulf when...
- MSC Cruises proposes evacuation of stranded seafarers from Persian Gulf April 17, 2026MSC Cruises has proposed that seafarers stuck on commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf could be ferried to safety by cruise ships which are also stranded in the region. MSC Cruises announced ....
- Grounded “Cast Away” cruise ship will be retired April 16, 2026Cruise ship Fiji Princess (IMO 9199907), which grounded on the same island as where the 2000 Tom Hanks film “Cast Away” was filmed (IMN April 8th), has been retired after 22 years in service ...