31st August 2022

Industry leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and many...

6th May 2022

Shipping’s share of the global anthropogenic emissions increased from 2.76% in 2012 to 2.89% in 2018[1]. This is more than enough reason for...

11th February 2022

“You never walk alone” is a song written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein for the musical Carousel in 1945. And the...

3rd August 2020

Our IUMI Professional Partner Windward will hold a webinar under the theme “New Sanctions Developments in the Maritime Sector: UK Sanctions...

7th February 2020

2019 was a pivotal year for marine insurers who are increasingly in the crosshairs of regulators around sanctions compliance. Between March and November, three...

19th September 2019

It is our last day today at the IUMI annual conference and what a day it has been. At breakfast you could see our delegates were bright eyed and bushy tailed, perhaps not as much as...

17th September 2019

Today is one of the busier days at the conference as we have concurrent workshops in the morning and afternoon, with the Policy Forum workshop in the middle – phew! Where to go to first? If only we could have a clone of ourselves then it would make it far easier.

16th September 2019

The IUMI annual conference is well under way! Isabelle Therrien, CBMU President, and Peter Hohman, President and CEO of the Insurance Institute of Canada welcomed us full heartedly and gave respectively great presentations on Toronto and the history of marine insurance here. We also now know that the correct pronunciation of Toronto is ‘Toronno’.

16th September 2019

It’s that time of the year again and the puck has been dropped for IUMI’s annual conference in Toronto, Canada. Today is the first official day of the renowned event and the Fairmont Royal York Hotel – this year’s beautiful venue - is filled with marine insurers from all over the world. Coincidentally Toronto is also hosting its annual film festival so you might just see George Clooney or Jennifer Lopez across the bar.

17th June 2019

It was September 2011. My first visit to Paris and to the IUMI annual conference. I had heard about this “largest gathering of marine underwriters on earth” and was looking forward to taking part one day.