Jeremy M Joseph and Matthew Van Huizen of Joseph & Partners have written for UK Club on the odd legal situation when it comes to limiting liability in Malaysia. Malaya gained independence from Britain in 1957, and six years later West Malaya merged with Sabah and Sarawak, with the country being...
Cruise vessel Astoria Grande (ex AIDAcara – IMO 9112789) has become the first of what could be a series of Russian cruise ships catering for the Russian domestic sector. Cruise vessels that focused solely on the Russian demographic were well-known and popular before the disappearance of the USSR....
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US law enforcers claimed that they had discovered what they believed could be a priceless Fabergé egg on luxury yacht Amadea (IMO 1012531), nominally owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, but recently seized by the US as part of its sanctions actions against Russia. Deputy Attorney...
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Heavy rain has begun to help stabilize the River Rhine in Germany, which had been hit by low water levels for some time as a result of recent excessively dry weather, but this was unlikely to be sufficient to solve current shipping problems on the river, navigation authorities said on Thursday July...
Japan P&I Club has created a Head of Claims Units in the Head Office. The Head of Claims Units will manage and improve the claims handling structure and system by instructing all claims sections, including the Claims Departments I and II and the Claims Teams of Branch Offices. Keisuke Kobayashi...
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Just-published statistics from the International Salvage Union (ISU) for 2021 showed that ISU member gross revenues reached $391m, up from with $301m in 2020. ISU members provided 189 services in 2021, up from 182 the previous year. The number of Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF) cases continued to decline,...
About 30,000 gallons of refined oil spilled from a vessel, tentatively identified as The Arabian, in The Bahamas earlier this week, Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper said on Wednesday July 20th. The oil spill took place at the resort island of Great Exuma, the largest island in the Exuma island...
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Transport Canada has issued Ship Safety Bulletin 15/2022 to replace its previous SSB 12/2021. The latest SSB updates requirements under the Interim Order for Protection of the Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) which came into force on June 1st 2022 for vessels navigating in, on or through specific waters...
Fire broke out on board of chemical tanker Antares (IMO 9030450) while it was docked at Puerto Bolivar, Colombia, on July 19th. Four personnel on board had been carrying out repairs and maintenance duties. They alerted the Captain of the port and port firefighters and an emergency team responded....
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Ropax ferry Trans-Asia 1, which went aground off the island of Cebu, Philippines, last December, caught fire at the weekend and burned for more than 12 hours. The damage appeared to be extensive. The 1980-built vessel was operated by Cebu-based Trans-Asia Shipping Lines. It was blown aground during...