22/06/2005
June 23, 2005 - The growth in end-to-end logistics services and the greater complexity of long-distance supply chains are increasing risks for logistics operators, often in areas that are imperfectly understood. This warning to logistics service providers was delivered by the leading transport mutual TT Club in a presentation at a recent (June 15) conference in Antwerp.
12/06/2005
A recent decision of the English commercial court in Datec Electronic Holdings Ltd v United Parcels Services Ltd raises some important issues for freight forwarders and carriers dealing with high-value consignments.
18/05/2005
In the April edition of its bulletin Cargo World, ICHCA International reports on an incident where a trainee dockworker was killed when he was crushed and fell from a container crane.
24/04/2005
Although the introduction of the ISPS Code was driven primarily by the need to counter the threat of terrorist attacks on ports and shipping, it and its regulatory cousins CSI (Container Security Initiative) and C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) are having a positive impact on levels of more traditional cargo crime.
21/04/2005
The Club has been running a related initiative raising awareness of carriage of dangerous goods in containers. It has recently published a new Stop Loss information sheet entitled 'Guidance on the Transport of Packaged Dangerous Goods by Sea'.
17/04/2005
TT Club's improving financial position has been acknowledged by industry ratings agency AM Best, which has revised its outlook on the mutual insurer's rating from 'stable' to 'positive'.
06/04/2005
We write again on the English Rafaela S judgment, which we first addressed in the last edition of TT Talk.
The police and highway authorities are continuing to crack down on overweight vehicles, and are looking especially at containerized loads.
23/02/2005
A question frequently asked is: just how many shipping containers are there in the world?
In recent months a number of claims have been reported to the Club arising from collisions involving cranes, RTGs, straddle carriers, fork-lift trucks and other handling equipment. In several of them, it is thought that the driver had been distracted by using a mobile (cell) phone in the cab; in one instance, unbelievably, in composing a text message.
The shipping and maritime law community is beginning to pay more attention to an issue that arises from ISPS and the enforcement of other security legislation: who pays when a ship and its myriad cargoes are delayed by government officials acting on suspicion of some danger which turns out to be unfounded?
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