Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous 2011 to all our Members and friends from all of us at the UK Club. As always our best wishes and thoughts are particularly with the crews who keep watch on board ships at sea through this time.
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NEWS - Heavy Rainfall - S.America
06/12/2010
The Club has published its latest Legal Briefing "Comprehensive rights and protection at work" reviewing the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) and explaining the implications for Members of its adoption into national labour laws.
The Club has published its latest Legal Briefing "
UK Club managers Thomas Miller won the award for its highly original decision to celebrate its 125th anniversary by becoming the lead sponsor of the Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust, a UK charity which is renovating the 19th century ship Chauncy Maples as a clinic to provide essential medical services to the lakeside people of Malawi. Thomas Miller has already succeeded in raising more than half of the £2 million sum it set as its target just six months ago.
Alert! 25 - It's all about Teamwork...
01/12/2010
Arbitration Fees and Costs
29/11/2010
Fees and Costs for Arbitration according to the LMAA terms from 1st March 2010.
In light of recent marine accidents involving distraction of the Navigational watch through the use of mobile phones the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) has issued...
CMS Newsletter 7/10 (November 2010)
11/11/2010
Development of Pre-contracting Issue:
Opinions of the Lords of Appeal for Judgement in the cause - Transfield Shipping Inc (Appellants)
"The Sylvia" case [2010]
08/11/2010
Sylvia Shipping Co Limited v Progress Bulk Carriers Limited [2010] EWHC 542 (Comm): The issue was whether time-charterers could recover as damages for owners' breach of the charterparty maintenance clause the profits lost on a sub-charter fixture that was cancelled when repairs to the vessel rendered her late in presenting.The classic or orthodox test for remoteness of loss will apply in the great majority of cases. Only in unusual cases, such as The Achilleas, where the context, surrounding circumstances or general market expectations make it necessary, will an inquiry be made as to whether or not a party has assumed responsibility for losses of the kind suffered by the innocent party. In this case, the Tribunal correctly concluded that the loss was not too remote. They applied the right test of remoteness by asking whether the loss claimed was of a kind which would have been within the reasonable contemplation of the parties at the time the contract was made as not unlikely to result. Further, it was reasonable to conclude that it would be well within the reasonable contemplation of a shipowner that delay of significance in arriving or being ready to load at the designated load port might result in the loss of a sub-charter and consequent loss of profit on that fixture
NEWS - Fog Halts traffic in Turkish straits
05/11/2010
Article compares mandatory migrant worker insurance to P&I insurance coverage
What are the key differences between the minimum compulsory insurance requirements provided for within Section 37-A of the AMWA/RA 10022 and the scope of P&I cover? Where can our Manning Agent obtain insurance meeting the Compulsory Insurance obligations? What is the IG's position in relation to the Certificate of Cover? Should Members sign the Certificate of Cover or authorise its issuance on their behalf? If a Member signs the Certificate of Cover or authorises its issuance on his behalf, will Club cover be prejudiced?
Two directors were elected to the Board of the UK P&I Club at the AGM in Shanghai. Angeliki Frangou is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Navios Maritime Holdings Inc, Athens and of its affiliates Navios Maritime Partners LP and Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation which have eleven owned ships in the UK P&I Club with 368,362 gross tonnage entered. Evgeny N. Ambrosov is Senior Executive Vice-President of OAO Sovcomflot, Moscow which has 24 owned ships with the Club, amounting to 639,540 gross tonnage.
Seven directors were elected to the Board of the UK P&I Club at the AGM in Bermuda on October 26th.
Chao Wu attends the COTSF
27/10/2010
Connecticut Maritime Association: Shipping 2010 Exhibition & Conference March 22nd - 24th
27/10/2010
Our Board Director Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, was elected to the post of Connecticut Maritime Association Commodore for the coming year at last week's Shipping 2010 event. The CMA awards this honour annually to "an individual who has significantly contributed to the dynamism, growth and development of the maritime industry."