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In January 2015 a handymax bulk carrier sank with significant loss of life after loading a cargo of 46, 000 tonnes of bauxite from the Malaysian port of Kuantan, where it was suspected that liquefaction...

Club Correspondents, Dias Marine Consulting PC, Odessa have advised the Club of the anchorage area where vessels loading at the port of Kerch are to proceed. The transhipment anchorage area is bounded...

Members are reminded of the current regulatory position regarding the carriage of bauxite in bulk.

Tankers Which Have Carried Heavy Fuel Oil As Cargo

Richard has extensive experience working in the Marine Insurance sector. He has recently joined West in the London office, having previously been employed at Victor Insurance and before that, the RSA Insurance...

Coal cargoes can be particularly challenging to carry, with the possibility of methane production, oxygen depletion and the corrosion of metal structures.

At the 113th Session of the International Labour Conference (2–13 June 2025), the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the fifth set of amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC,...

The Tokyo MOU on Port State Control (PSC) has announced that it will be introducing a New Inspection Regime (NIR) from the 1 January 2014, replacing the existing ship target factor system. The move will...

The 2014 amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) entered into force in early 2017 with the aim of protecting seafarers who had been abandoned by their employers.

As reported in our News Item of 26 September 2017, significant new sanctions against North Korea were unanimously agreed by the United Nations Security Council in August and September of 2017. Efforts...