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ITIC makes it a condition for its ship management Members to be co-assured because ship managers are deemed to be the operator in many jurisdictions around the world. By being named on the hull and P

The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) has updated its standard trading conditions. The new 2002 version received the approval of the Institute’s Federation Council in September 2002 and will

Ship and crew managers should be vigilant against becoming unwittingly involved in a visa fraud to gain entry into the United States. A crew agency in the Ukraine, and others elsewhere, have been

The last issue of ‘The Intermediary’ looked at the need for Members to take care that they made their agency status clear when signing off correspondence. The article concentrated on the problems

...was the key message delivered by Roger Lewis, ITIC's Underwriting Director, when he spoke at the Rail Safety Conference at Birmingham's ICC on 20 May, 2010. Transport professionals spend less

A ship owner can either place the insurance of his ship with underwriters himself or alternatively pass the responsibility of insuring the ship onto the ship manager under the ship management

The International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) requires that, “All ships should carry adequate and up-to-date charts, sailing directions, lists of lights, notices to mariners, tide

Health and safety in the workplace, statutory accounting and tax provision, compliance with governmental and regulatory authority requirements; in the modern business world, more and more

Personal claims against individual directors and officers can be brought by staff who may allege discrimination on the grounds of age, gender, religion etc or that they have had their employment

D&O insurance responds to claims brought against individual directors and officers by shareholders of the company. Claims from shareholders often follow a poorer than expected financial