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New report from the Swedish Club shines light on vessel claims

The life of seafarers is never straightforward, and as a new report from the Swedish Club shows, the hazards and job complexities they face are very much dependent on the type of vessel they find themselves crewing. In P&I Claims Analysis, the Club has studied thousands of incidents in the last ten years, across a range of vessel segments and claims types, and made some interesting discoveries.

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DNV GL, Gard and The Swedish Club work together to help reduce anchor losses

The root cause of many groundings and collisions, lost anchors are among the top five reasons for claims costs. A rising number of anchor losses reported over the last several years prompted DNV GL, Gard and The Swedish Club to investigate this issue. Based on an analysis of damage cases involving anchor and anchor chain losses, the project partners have issued a presentation identifying the most frequent technical and operational causes, and some steps crews and operators can take to address them.

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Fatal fall

The Swedish P&I Club issues Monthly Safety Scenario for January 2016 regarding a fatal fall accident. The Swedish Club publishes on a monthly basis a new “Monthly Safety Scenario” (MSS) to assist owners in their efforts of complying with the maritime regulations.

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Collision with vessel at anchor

The Swedish P&I Club has published its Monthly Safety for December 2015 regarding a collision with vessel at anchor. While Vessel A was raising its anchor before proceeding to the next port, the master decided to pass ahead of vessel B that was anchored for bunkering. Vessel B was on A’s starboard bow, A was maintaining a speed of 7 knots and a course of 122°. There was a strong southerly ebb tide of about 5 knots.

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Anchoring at Malaysian Waters

The Swedish P&I Club has issued alert to highlight important issues when anchoring at Malaysian Waters. Based on Club's experience, it is quite a common occurrence for vessels to erroneously drop anchor in areas where the Masters believe to be international waters when they are, in actual fact, in Malaysian territorial waters

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