Retail Marine Insurance
Covering news from the retail marine business including claims on yachts and super-yachts.
- 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 ...
- Replanning of trips by cruise ships continues because of the Iranian war March 24, 2026It has been announced by Costa Crociere SpA that the cruise ship Costa Smeralda (IMO 9781889) would no longer sail in the Arabian Gulf as previously scheduled. Instead the vessel will .....
- Switch to “manual” steering possibly a factor in Coral Adventurer grounding March 13, 2026An Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) preliminary report has outlined the order of events leading up to the grounding of cruise ship Coral Adventurer (IMO 9838644) near a remote port ....
- Stranded cruise ship passengers are on their way home from Persian Gulf March 12, 2026MSC Cruises said that it had chartered flights for more than 1,500 passengers who were aboard the cruise ship MSC Euribia (IMO 9901544) in Dubai when the current Iranian war broke out at ....
- Conviction of Conception captain is upheld March 11, 2026A US federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of Jerry Boylan, the captain of the ‘Conception’, which caught fire before dawn on September 2nd 2019 and led to the deaths of 34 people .....