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World Maritime Day is an official International Maritime Organization (IMO) day of recognition highlighting the vital work of the maritime sector and its key workers. International shipping transports...

The Club’s Benin correspondents, TCI Africa, have advised that vessels carrying bagged parboiled rice to Cotonou are experiencing serious berthing delays. In January 2013 the Nigerian government raised...

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has recently published two Marine Safety Alerts: “Wrong Directions: A Recipe for Failure” and “Simple Failures Render CO2 System Inoperative” concerning fixed CO2 fire...

Importance of bunker fuel quality cannot be overemphasised. Bunker of substandard quality may lead to technical issues with far-reaching consequences such as statutory non-compliance and fines or commercial...

A case study in common time charter issues including: calculating the redelivery date and final hire due, withdrawal of the vessel from charter and the effect of withdrawal down the charter chain.

The transfer of personnel between vessels and installations using personnel baskets has been common practice in the offshore oil and gas industry for many years and the hazards are well known.

Following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, many of the extensive and longstanding sanctions previously imposed by the UK, EU and US on Syria have been eased.

The Club wishes to alert Members to a recent pollution incident that occurred during bunkering operations, that resulted in a significant oil spill. While receiving bunkers, fuel oil escaped through an...