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Future sustainability of the sometimes fragile global supply chain must revolve around a fundamental safety culture throughout all operators and organisation involved, determines TT Club.

Falling from height is a leading cause of workplace fatalities and injuries. International freight transport and TT Club are warning of this danger in the transport, port and logistics industries, environments in which, unfortunately elevated working locations are often unavoidable.

The rapid adoption of the freight container as the dominant unit of cargo transport in the late sixties created complex and new risks as it changed the patterns of cargo operations and world trade significantly, argues Peregrine Storrs-Fox, Risk Management Director, TT Club.

TT Club highlights the dangers to the marine environment of plastic pellet or nurdle spillage. Those involved in the supply of what is a universal component of plastic materials must be more aware and take steps to ensure their safe carriage.

While the debate rages as to how to mitigate the risks to the maritime ecosystem, those arising through the entire freight supply chain need to be recognised, TT Club highlights. 

TT Club is emphasizing the critical dangers of lithium-ion batteries, including that of toxic gas emissions associated with lithium-ion battery fires.

Two major UK maritime insurers, the UK P&I Club and TT Club, became members of the Cargo Fire & Loss Innovation Initiative (CFLII) by Safetytech Accelerator.

TT Club draws attention to the life-threatening hazards caused by enclosed and confined spaces and presents measures to limit the phenomenon. 

TT Club is increasing its efforts to promote industry awareness of both trends in criminal activity and methods of combatting its success, in response to the exponential growth in contraband drugs entering Europe via ports on the Atlantic seaboard.

The Merchant Vessel MSC SHRISTI, a container ship traveling from Boston to the Dominican Republic, notified Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre via email on March 3rd that, while passing at approximately 350 nautical miles east of Bermuda, the ship had lost overboard a total of 46 empty shipping containers at three different times due to bad weather.