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Further to the Club’s previous article on the imposition of fines for vessels allegedly found to have discharged contaminated segregated ballast water in the Ukraine, additional information has been received...

February 2005

In June 2012 the Club advised that the Paris and Tokyo MOUs on Port State Control (PSC) would be running a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) from 1 September 2012 until 30 November 2012 covering...

In August 2011 the Egyptian Ministry of Defence announced a prohibition on the carriage of armed guards, weapons and ammunition on vessels transiting the Suez Canal. However, the requirements were not...

Given that cargo contamination claims are the most frequent and costly claim that tankers experience, the following bulletin highlights the best sampling practices to be undertaken onboard vessels.

On 9 February 2012 the Final Rule establishing the California No Discharge Zone (NDZ) was signed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Final Rule will enter into force 30 days...

We look at the details of some recent cases, discuss the lessons to be learnt and examine the consequences and potential implications of each decision.