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The UK P&I Club, Lloyd's Register and Intercargo have produced a pocket guide and checklist for ship's officers and agents who arrange cargoes for loading.

“How to Comply With MARPOL Annex V - New amendments governing cargo classification and the discharge of cargo hold wash water” is a new publication produced by the Club, in partnership with ITOPF, which is aimed at helping Shippers, Charterers, Owners and Crews fully understand and comply with the MARPOL Annex V changes.

The UK Club is providing a package of the International Shipping Federation’s (ISF) guide publication “Guidelines on the Application of the ILO Maritime Labour Conventions (2nd edition)” and the Lloyds Register/UK Club “ILO MLC pocket checklist” free to all its members Both publications focus on helping employers ensure compliance with the ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), which enters into force in six months time on the 13th August.

The UK P&I Club is committed to safety. Its high-level loss prevention programme – the most extensive in the industry – aims to offset rising claims and maintain quality amongst Members. This concise Brochure details all our Loss Prevention initiatives catalogues all our Industry leading Loss Prevention Publications.

The ILO MLC Smartphone App, developed by The Club and Lloyd's Register is aimed at assisting Members and Ships Crews' to ensure they are in compliance with the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, which will enter into force in August 2013. The app is free, and available for iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones.

The ILO MLC pocket checklist aims to help owners, operators and crew comply with the Marine Labour Convention which comes into force in August 2013. Non compliance with the requirements of the convention will result in port state control (PSC) detentions, so to help reduce the risk of your ship being detained, as a minimum, we strongly recommend that you include the items in this checklist as part of your final checks before the voyage and port entry.

A focus on some of the issues surrounding tug and barge fleets in the P&I world

A focus on some of the issues surrounding gas tanker fleets in the P&I world

Increasing numbers of main engine failure related incidents and accidents following blackouts have led to a data collection exercise by the UK Club’s risk assessors and a detailed analysis of more than 700 claims which has given cause for concern.  A significant number of these claims for third party property damage, many of which were enormously expensive and in some cases amounted to millions of dollars could be attributed, directly or indirectly, to main engine failures or electrical blackouts.

This early summer edition of the Bodily Injury Newsletter places particular emphasis on ‘maintenance and cure’.   The breadth of exposure through this avenue of claim is not widely understood. The seemingly limitless potential for punitive damages where owners fail to pay maintenance and cure, is explored as is the trend towards palliative treatment which raises the prospect of a continued cost for owners. Recent issues and developments arising from crew injury through falling overboard and parting mooring lines are also reviewed.

The resolution of fuel quantity and quality disputes will rely on evidence provided

Representing nearly one in three of the large personal injury claims submitted to the UK Club slips, trips & falls are easily and cheaply avoided. Risk Focus: Slips, Trips & Falls shows how to identify potential hazards and provides recommendations to avoid such risks.

Reefer matters - A focus on some of the issues surrounding the carriage of refrigerated cargoes

The UK P&I Club is committed to safety. Its high-level loss prevention programme – the most extensive in the industry – aims to offset rising claims and maintain quality amongst Members. This concise Brochure details all our Loss Prevention initiatives catalogues all our Industry leading Loss Prevention Publications.  

The cause of claims and how to avoid them during pre-loading, loading and unloading.

In this issue of US Bodily Injury News:  Report on the 2011 Round Table Seminar; Civil and criminal investigation of a maritime casualty; Piracy - a brief overview of issue and concerns and Primary Duty Rule - a forgotten defense?

The UK Club, together with Lloyd's Register, has published a new pocket guide on the importance of professional maintenance and survey preparation for marine lifting appliances.  The consequences of failure include death...

This aide-memoire deals with how to prevent tanker cargo contamination claims and also highlights the cause of claims and how to avoid them.This pamphlet covers important aspect of a tanker vessel operations such as;...

The mandatory introduction of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems is seen as a major step forward in safe ship operation and protection of the environment

BULK MATTERS accompanies the Club DVD 'Bulk Matters' and highlights some of the most frequent causes of Bulk Carrier claims that the Club sees.

Version 4 of the Best Management Practices to prepare and protect against Piracy off the Somali basin, Arabian Sea and the wider Indian Ocean.

The Bodily Injury News produced by our colleagues in New Jersey and San Francisco is published this week reviewing a number of recent developments and issues related to claims for bodily injury, illness and death among passengers and crews. It also announces the arrangements for the forthcoming Thomas Miller Americas Bodily Injury Team Round Table scheduled for September 15th and 16th this year.    Our New Jersey office will be playing host to our Members’ executives, both here in the United States and abroad, who have a special focus on bodily injury issues.

Like the Club Video 'Tanker Matters', this booklet aims to identify some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims encountered on Liquid bulk vessels and how to avoid them. Covering such topics as shortage, contamination,...

Guidance in steps to take in preventing and dealing with stowaways.

A guide to Masters, owners and surveyors in the legal requirements for testing and carrying Iron Ore.

Guidance to Masters, owners and operators in the new reporting obligations and targeting system

With its team of risk assessors, the UK Club is in a unique position to gather data and target areas of risk onboard ship. The Club has produced a detailed report and accompanying poster that help to highlight the findings of...

The UK Club’s analysis of major claims has, in the years since the publication of the first analysis in 1991, become an industry standard from which not only the Club’s Members but also the shipping authorities such as IMO, the...

This third report of our analysis of major claims develops further the detailed analyes published in the two previous editions based upon an increasing number of claims now available for analysis.

The first report of our analysis of major claims in October last year set anew landmark for this Club and for the industry. The quest for improvedquality in our membership and a reduction in claims are aims which mostP&l...

The Members will be aware that the UK P&I Club has experienced, in common withallother P&l Associations in the International Group, an unprecedentedincrease in the value of claims from the 1987 policy year onwards, with...

Like the Club Video 'Container Matters', this pamphlet aims to identify some of the most frequent causes of cargo claims and how to avoid them. It covers damage to container cargo, how containers should be stuffed, the carriage...

The Club, with the support of several Members, has launched Book it right and pack it tight – a set of four guidebooks on the workings of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code. They aredesigned to provide...

The efficient operation of ships requires a high level of management skill and commercial awareness. Written for shipmasters, this major book aims to link the two. Published by the Nautical Institute and sponsored by the UK P&I Club.

It is much easier to lose money in port. This practical guide is aimed at junior officers. It covers arrival; mooring; safety; taking over the watch; commercial documentation; break bulk operations; bulk carriers; container ships; reefers; tankers; ballast operations; stress and stability; cargo condition and quantity; ship's services; pollution; securing cargo; keeping records and departure. Published by the Nautical Institute and sponsored by the UK P&I Club.

This publication is directed towards senior managers, including shipmasters, across the spectrum of shipping activities. This book examines techniques and demonstrates how risk management can be applied. The underlying philosophy contained in the text is that managers have a responsibility to identify hazards, carry out risk assessment and control risks. 

The essence of commercial shipping is now captured here in The Development of Maritime Commercial Practice. The traditions which ensure optimum performance in the shipping industry has evolved over centuries, but these are in danger of being lost over the horizon, as the industry feels obliged to keep cutting costs. To re-affirm the value of good commercial practices the Nautical Institute has initiated a major project with this introduction by Robert Tallack and the two further guides listed above. 

The need to tackle this subject has been around for a long time. Soon after the Club's first Major Claims Analysis findings were produced (in 1990), showing that 58% of all major claims resulted from human error, we were faced...

In February 1996, the Club published a report entitled The Human Factor, which serves as a companion publication to the Ship Inspection Report. The document, offering a wide range of information about seafarers, including...

This is one of two companion manuals specially prepared for UK Club Members to guide ship operators, managers and ships' officers through the intricacies of the various PSC regimes. This volume serves to highlight and explain the...

Good security is teamwork - a responsibility for all onboard, not just a select few, to protect and secure their environment. This supplement illustrates just a few examples of the positive ways in which Members' crews have...

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has developed this model Ship Security Plan to provide guidance to shipping companies and their Company Security Officers on the content of Ship Security Plans conforming to the...

Over the past two decades there has been a growing appreciation of the many and varied ways that people contribute to accidents in hazardous industries or simply in every day life. Not long ago most of these would have been...

This supplement to the Loss Prevention News covers accidents involving large fines as well as information on regulations including crew contracts, stowaways and personal injury litigation.  Ordering your copy Club...

Focusing on the cruise industry, this Loss Prevention News supplement covers topics such as the crew risk management programme, the US Disability Act and disabled passengers, legal developments in the USA, the Athens Convention,...

While the general condition and operational and maintenance standards of ships entered with the UK P&I Club are getting better, the improvements will have to continue. Club managers believe that rising insurance costs and...

Produced in 1995 this report to the Members explains in greater detail the nature of the ship inspection process, and records the overall picture presented from an analysis of the data in the inspectors’ reports. It also provides an analysis of the findings from the condition survey programme dating back to 1990