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Positive outlook 2018

The insurance industry has emerged from a year of massive losses driven, above all, by natural catastrophes. The hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria resulted in up to US$ 100bn...

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EU Places of Refuge guidelines amended

Following a table top exercise in Horten, Norway, last September, the cooperation group on places of refuge in the European Union met in Brussels on 1 February...

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IACS Council Meeting with industry

IUMI was, amongst other maritime associations, invited to attend the high-level meeting of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) Council...

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Combatting cargo crime: Project ROADSEC

Cargo theft and transport security during road transportation is an issue raised by IUMI on several occasions. In the European Union (EU) cargo theft...

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IUMI contributes to EU consultation on eFreight documents

The European Commission ran a public consultation on electronic documents for freight carriage during the period of mid-November 2017 until...

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Second round of input to Incoterms© 2020

As you may recall, IUMI participated in the first round of the review process to draft a new set of Incoterms© rules. The review aims to reflect...

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Q&A with Heike Deggim, Director of Maritime Safety Division, International Maritime Organization

In a nutshell, how would you describe the main role of the MSC? The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC)...

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Gearing up for the IUMI 2018 Annual Conference

We are pleased to announce we are full steam ahead in preparation for the 2018 annual conference, with this years theme being...

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Blogging is underway

Our new blog has been launched. In alignment with our communications strategy our blog is another stepping stone to raise public awareness of the excellent work of our technical...

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Next milestone for IUMI’s education programme

As many of our readers will be aware, the first pillar of IUMI’s education programme, the online webinars, are well underway...

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People at IUMI: Mark Edmondson

How long have you been associated with IUMI? My first involvement with IUMI was attending the Paris conference in 1997. Since then I have attended numerous...

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5th Session of IMO Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC)

The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) sub-committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 5) held its fifth session from 22 to 26...

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5th Session of IMO Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR)

The IMO Sub-Committee on PPR deals with all matters relating to pollution prevention and response. This ranges from all...

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5th Session of IMO Sub-Committee on Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue (NCSR)

The IMO Sub-Committee on Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue held its 5th Session (NCSR 5)...

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IMO Cargo Securing Regulations — Homogeneous physics or individual chaos?

The underlying frustration behind this bold statement stems from the considerable variations in the different cargo...

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International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code

The IMSBC Code (the "Code") entered into force on 1 January 2011, with mandatory application under the SOLAS Convention (replacing...

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Subsea cable and damage claims

There are now about 428 submarine telecoms cables in service around the world, and more than 30 subsea interconnector power cables, as well as an ever-increasing...

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The Sanchi tragedy

On the evening of 6 January 2018, a collision took place between the Panamanian flagged double-hulled crude oil tanker Sanchi (164,154 dwt, 2008 built), and the Hong Kong flagged...

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Welcoming Concirrus as our new IPP

We are pleased to announce Concirrus, the creators of Quest Marine, the behavioural insights software, as our newest IUMI Professional Partner. Concirrus machine...

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5th Asia Marine Insurance Conference, Hong Kong

IUMI’s increasing engagement in the growing Asian marine insurance markets had moved forward in late 2016 with the opening of the IUMI Asia Hub,...

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Leaders of the pack

We are proud to report that three of IUMI’s executive and technical committee members featured in the coveted Lloyd’s List Top 100 most...

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