Tag: Shipowners Club

The Shipowners' Club released a report, in which they outline the developments made in autonomous vessels and the implications that may occur in the light of a P&I perspective. It also clarifies that amendments will need to be made to the existing regulatory framework to ensure it remains relevant to unmanned vessels and autonomous vessels.

The autonomous vessel technology has seen an advance lately, due to increased investment. In a recent article, the Shipowners' Club makes an attempt to outline the actions that have been made in regard to autonomous vessels and those that are planned to happen.

ISWAN has launched a new self-help guide to provide seafarers with guidance on how best to enhance their wellbeing despite many of the challenges of life at sea. This guide brings together evidence from the field of Positive Psychology to help seafarers recognize critical elements of their psychological wellbeing, and provides straightforward, practical tips that could help while they’re away at sea. 

Many of the personal injury incidents on fishing vessels could have been avoided if an appropriate risk assessment had been conducted to identify the potential hazards. The three main areas of attention are: handling fishing gear, slips/trips/falls and crew injury claims during mooring operations.

The Shipowners Club informed that it has recently recorded several collision incidents in the narrow channels and bends of the Hidrovía, South America, due to wrong position of the vessels whilst performing passing manoeuvres. 

In 2016, the Shipowners Club has experienced a high volume of claims during mooring and unmooring operations, which mainly arose from inadequate supervision, communication failure, and mooring equipment failure.

As it has recently dealt with several claims involving access to vessels, the Shipowners' Club issued a guide for the safe embarkation and disembarkation from vessels and gangway installation, to prevent injuries and even fatalities.

The Shipowners' Club issued a guidance note, regarding the reactivation of a vessel following a period of lay-up, noting that whether it be an offshore support vessel, or any type of vessel, reactivation following a period of lay-up requires very careful management in fully assessing the risks involved.

In its latest article in the Navigating Mutual P&I series, the Shipowners Club focuses on ‘overspill’, explaining how the International Group calculate overspill limits and provides an overview of the collective overspill reinsurance structure.

The Shipowners Club issued a cyber security notice, stressing that companies should not only be aware of external cyber threats but also those that can occur internally. Procedures, rules and training should be put into place to limit the opportunity for cyber-attacks to occur.