In March 2013, The UK Club held a series of Risk Management seminars in China. Loss Prevention Director Karl Lumbers, Danny Ng, Helen Huang and James Zhang spent an intense week visiting over a dozen Members in Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
The seminars gave strategic and practical guidance to ship-owners and operators in tackling the root cause of expensive claims. The seminars were well received by the Members and were attended by senior managers, commercial and technical management staff. Those attending the seminar gave positive feedback and welcomed the risk management project for the industry.
The UK Club’s local correspondent has informed the Club of China’s revised maritime traffic safety law, which will come into effect on September 1st 2021.
The UK Club has recently been made aware of new measures put in place at Chinese ports in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19, in particular the Indian variant.
The UK P&I Club recently held a webinar on the maintenance and proper use of mooring ropes; the webinar received an overwhelming response with attendees from more than 50 countries worldwide.
The new Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China came into effect from 1st January, 2021, bringing in numerous changes to the rules governing civil disputes in China, those of particular relevance to Members are the changes to the rules relating to guarantees, which we consider in more detail below.
