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Best Practice: The Application of Bulldog Clips The Club’s Risk Assessors often note that bulldog clips, on board the ships that they visit, are incorrectly applied. Bulldog Grips are commonly used…

Circular 15/16: THE UK INSURANCE ACT 2015 OUTLINE The UK Insurance Act 2015 will enter into force on 12 August 2016. As an update, the eight Clubs in the International Group whose rules are…

Tackling Cargo Liquefaction In recent years the shipping world has experienced a number of incidents which have been attributed to liquefaction of cargoes of iron ore fines and nickel ore, which are…

Best Practice: Mooring Snap-back zones In recent years it became common practice to mark snap-back zones on ships decks in the vicinity of mooring machinery, rollers and fairleads. However, industry…

Circular 14/16- General Average - "York Antwerp Rules (YAR) 2016" Outline  YAR 2016 adopted by the CMI Assembly in May 2016 YAR 2016 addresses concerns of ICS and BIMCO, and is supported by…

ECA Requirements in China China MSA has issued a Guidelines on supervising the implementation of ECA regulations. In accordance with the Guidelines, ships are required to correctly and accurately…

US marine casualty reporting From 1st July 2016 the US Coast Guard has an amended CG-2692 form for marine casualty reporting. The new form has been streamlined to ease the burden of reporting. What…

Can Test - can save lives Over the past decade, at least 100 seafarers are known to have lost their lives due to incidents which have been attributed to bulk cargoes liquefying at sea. Excessively…

Best Practice: Portable Power Tools The UK P&I Club's Risk Assessors often find during routine Risk Assessments of entered ships, that the safe use of portable power tools is not adhered to on…

Risk Focus: Kidnap and Ransom Piracy and armed robbery in the waters off West Africa has become a very serious concern for the maritime Industry. The Gulf of Guinea is one of the most dangerous…