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Intermediary October 2002
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Lloyd’s Ship Manager’s 12th Annual Conference will be held on 9th and 10th October in Cyprus. Stuart Munro and Charlotte Kirk will be attending from ITIM. On Tuesday 8th October there will be a reception for ITIC Members, with further details following in due course. If you are interested in attending please advise by email to ITIC@thomasmiller.com.
ITIM hosted a golf day in October last year for insurance brokers who bring business to ITIC. A good day’s golf was enjoyed in damp autumnal conditions. The winner was John Hodges of Ramon Insurance Brokers, with Graham Johnson of HSBC Insurance Brokers coming second.
Adam Jacobson, the ITIC area representative for France, represented ITIC at a cocktail party hosted by the French Chartering and Sale & Purchase Ship Brokers Association held in Paris in June. Adam were joined by the Club’s representative in France, Joseph Ducene. The event takes place every two years and is attended by many brokers and their shipowning and chartering clients.
Staff News: We are pleased to welcome Joanne Melder and Matt Mitchell as new account executives.
Joanne has joined ITIC from the crew and injury department at Steamship Insurance Management Services Ltd where she was employed from 1995 following completion of a law degree at Sheffield University. Joanne will be responsible for underwriting claims and marketing to the Members of the Club in several countries including India, Israel, Greece, Malta and the UK. Joanne was married on 7th September and will now be known as Joanne Melder.
Matt spent six years at sea with P&O Containers, obtaining his second mates certificate before studying for a degree in maritime business and law at the University of Plymouth. He then worked at the UK P&I Club before joining ITIM. Matt has applied to be a member of the Institute of Chartered Ship brokers (ICS) and won the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Co. Ltd. prize for Port Agency in this year’s ICS exams. Matt will be responsible for underwriting, claims and marketing for ITIC in the Middle East, Turkey, Egypt, and The Lebanon, as well as the U.K.
The Baltic Exchange Tennis Cup
Given the weather that England has enjoyed this summer it was a minor miracle that not a drop of rain fell on the Surbiton Tennis Club where the Fehr Cup Competition was played on 11th July.
ITIC/Thomas Miller & Co. had won the cup in 2000 but following the loss of one of the winning pair had not defended it in 2001. This year we entered not one but two pairs with Chi Wong of the IT Department joining ITIM’s Damian Mustard in the lead pairing. The second pair saw ITIM’s finance director, Steve Harvey, playing with ITIC’s Chairman, Paul Vogt. The draw provided an opportunity for this pair to meet the Chairman’s daughters in the second round and they appeared to be well on the way to winning their first round match at 4–2 in the first set. At this point Steve Harvey, who was rumoured to have been in strict training for this event, forgot that he had achieved veteran status and hurled himself across the court in an attempt to return his opponent’s cross court volley. Unfortunately his calf muscle was not ready for this heroic effort and the resulting tear put an end to the Harvey/Vogt partnership’s participation in the competition.
ITIC’s first pair were the number one seeds for the event and justified their ranking by reaching the final without dropping a set. However, the final was more evenly balanced with the E.A. Gibson pair losing the first set 6-3 but winning the second by the same score. The final set saw the ITIC pair raising their game to new heights with Damian Mustard’s return of serve being especially worthy of note. A fine 6-2 victory resulted in the Fehr Cup returning to International House for the second time in three years and we look forward to 2003 with some confidence.
The Fairplay Cup
The Fairplay Cup is an annual sailing event which takes place in Port Solent, Portsmouth. On a grey June day with a fresh wind blowing 21 companies took part, racing Sunfast 37s. Teams taking part included The Denholm Group, The Baltic Exchange Sailing Association, Dorchester Maritime and Richards Butler, to name but a few. ITIM provided two crew members, Stuart Munro and Matt Mitchell (far left of the picture), to the V ships yacht which won first prize.