Authored articles
03/06/2024
Introduction
Welcome to this edition of ITIC’s electronic newsletter, The Wire, which focusses specifically on ship classification societies.
03/06/2024
Litigation management
The shipping industry is one of the most litigious in the world. Most classed ships are owned by international shipowners and trade internationally.
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ERIKA
The Maltese-flagged oil tanker ERIKA broke apart off the west coast of France and severely polluted the French coastline in December 1999.
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PRESTIGE
In November 2002, the Bahamas-flagged oil tanker PRESTIGE, heading from the Baltic to Asia with a cargo of heavy fuel oil, began to break up in bad weather in the Bay of Biscay.
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Yacht purchaser’s claim
A classification society surveyor had given an 80 foot steel hulled motor yacht a periodical special survey and had passed the yacht as “100 A1”.
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Crew members’ claim
There was an explosion and fire aboard a ship causing the death of two crew members. A classification society classed the ship and issued an ISM certificate for it. The source of ignition had not been identified.
03/06/2024
Charterer’s claim
A charterer alleged to have suffered losses as a result of misleading and deceptive conduct by the classification society in the classification of an offshore supply vessel.
03/06/2024
Shipowner’s hull and machinery insurer’s claim
In 2016, a bulk carrier suffered a stern shaft breakage during a voyage, causing the engine room to be flooded with seawater and leaving the ship out of control.