Claims & incidents
17/05/2013 -
A consultant was engaged to notify all interested parties along a route of a new telecommunications cable. The consultant did this in accordance with its principal’s instructions. However, whilst laying the cable, the...
17/05/2013 -
A surveyor was contracted to carry out a debris clearance survey, including a bathymetric sounding. This report was carried out and issued, but unfortunately, the depths on the report were not correct. The site was actually...
17/05/2013 -
Marine surveyors based in the Far East were instructed by the insurers of a cargo of HRSG harps (which are metal tube modules used in power generation) to conduct a pre-shipment inspection and to advise on loading and stowage....
17/05/2013 -
A naval architect's client commissioned the design of a tug but did not immediately build it. Two years later, the client contacted the naval architect and asked him to update the specification.
Four tugs were ordered. The...
17/05/2013 -
A naval architect entered into an agreement in 2007 to design a jetboat. The company that built the boat did not have any insurance, although the naval architect was not aware of this fact at the time.
18/03/2013 -
A vessel loaded a cargo of bulk wheat in the UK. The shippers were a large trading company.The trading company were obliged to issue a financial bond with the rural payments agency, which in the normal course
18/03/2013 -
A chartering broker arranged a fixture for a voyage from the Black Sea to Singapore.The recap showed the identity of both the registered owners and the disponent owner with whom the negotiations had be
18/03/2013 -
A large ship management company was asked, as a favour, to provide a master /skipper to a yacht to be sailed from Thailand to Spain. No formal contract was in place between the member and the owners of the yach
18/03/2013 -
ITIC were notified by a ship agency member, based in Canada, that they were owed over CAD 70,000 from a local company.
The company were declared bankrupt and ITIC instructed lawyers to get the ship agent’s proper
18/03/2013 -
A shipbroker missed a message from owners explaining that the vessel they were fixing needed to inert tanks before loading. The message was therefore not seen by the charterers. The vessel was th
