Tag: cargo

Marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) issued the Safety & Shipping Review 2022, explaining that large vessels continue to drive ever-higher exposures, with fires, container and carrier losses, hazardous cargo, costlier salvage operations and issues with port of refuge leading to oversized losses and general average becoming more frequent.

The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) will start negotiating on a new contract for some 22,000 dockworkers at 29 West Coast Ports.

Steamship Mutual published a Risk Alert to highlight some of the dangers of working in and around the cargo holds during “routine” maintenance and cleaning operations.

Shipping lawyers Wang Jing & Co.Charles and Qiu Yuhao, Senior Claims Executive at Skuld Club shared some useful tips for soybeans bound for China.

Ship operators trading to Senegal should be mindful of the potential customs’ fines system and be prepared for any potential delay arising once a shortage is found at the end of discharging operations.

Dubai-based port operator DP World launched  a new digital logistics platform in order to enable seamless, safe, secure, and efficient movement of cargo operations.

Southern California’s Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle the most ocean cargo of any ports in the United States, but are some of the least efficient in the world.

Under pressure to respond to a recent oil spill off Orange Coast County, Rep. Michelle Steele proposed a temporary shutdown ban along the coast.

The loading of oil on board vessels, is a critical operation. Due care must be taken to mitigate against the risk of pollution.

West P&I Club issued an alert focusing on the dangers of carrying iron ore fines from Pepel, Sierra Leone.