The Wire - Issue 10, December 2012 - Focus on Sweden

Robert Hodge, the Account Executive at ITIC for Sweden attended the Swedish Shipbrokers’ Association’s (Sveriges Skeppsmäklareförening) autumn meeting on 8th November in Gothenburg.

ITIC provides an exclusive and affordable insurance scheme for the ship agent and shipbroker members of the Swedish Shipbrokers’ Association. The scheme is aimed at the type of member, who perhaps does not feel

A shipbroker in Scandinavia was instructed by his principal to confirm re-delivery of a ship to its owners. He sent the notice of re-delivery to the owner’s broker in the Far East by e-mail, and requested confirmation of receipt....

In early 2011 a ship agent at a tidal port in Japan was asked to provide a tide table to enable the owner of a ship to calculate the permissible drafts for the dates his ship was due to berth at the port. The ship agent duly...

Liner agents frequently have to arrange for cargo to be released against bills of lading surrendered at the loadport – the so called “Telex Release”. This type of release is risky as no bill of lading is collected at the...

Please contact your insurance broker or your ITIC underwriter if you would like to receive a quotation for any of these products. More detailed information is available at <link...