Retail Marine Insurance
Covering news from the retail marine business including claims on yachts and super-yachts.
- 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 .....
- Russian oligarch yacht agents indicted by US grand jury January 25, 2023Two businessmen have been charged by US authorities with helping operate Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg’s yacht Tango (IMO 1010703), in violation of sanctions imposed four years ....
- Passenger ship hits breakwater on Turkish Black sea coast January 20, 2023Passenger ship Astoria Grande (named the AIDAcara until September 2021) (IMO 9112789) collided with a breakwater at around 09:00 local time on January 18th while it was trying to enter .....
- Russia lost £100m cruise ship revenue in 2022: Report January 17, 2023The war in Ukraine has led to a boom in tourism to eastern European sea ports, with cruise ships calling at alternative destinations instead of at Russian ports, according to a report from .....
- Massive fire hits Marbella yacht storage facility January 13, 2023A huge fire looked to have badly damaged a marine storage facility in the Spanish city of Marbella during the evening of January 11th. Unconfirmed local reports said that up to 80 boats .....
- Inadequate lookout led to collision between tanker and yacht – NTSB January 13, 2023The failure of both crews to maintain a proper lookout was the main cause of a collision between large motor yacht Utopia IV (IMO 9851050) and tank vessel Tropic Breeze (8906315) near Nassau .....
- A second superyacht collides with operator booth in St Maarten January 12, 2023The operator booth on Simpson Bay Bridge on St Maarten island in the Caribbean is perhaps one of the most unfortunate in the region, if not the world, having been hit by two superyachts .....
- Sale of river cruise ships one more step to resolution of Genting Hong Kong collapse January 12, 2023The river ships of Crystal Cruises are being sold to a German start-up, thus resolving the fate of one more part of the former Genting Hong Kong fleet. The river cruise ships have been .....
- Fourth cruise ship hit with biofouling problem January 12, 2023New Zealand authorities and cruise industry executives were meeting this week after two more cruise ships were denied entry to ports as a result of “dirty hull syndrome .....
- Fire on Staten Island ferry was result of fuel leak January 9, 2023After a fire broke out aboard intra-New York ferry Sandy Ground (MMSI 368143060) between Manhattan and Staten Island on December 22nd (IMN, January 3rd) a preliminary investigation .....