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Passport perils

A cruise ship called at one of the Canary Islands. Prior to the ship’s arrival, the agent provided the Spanish border authorities with a passenger list indicating 15 South American nationals would be

A delayed description

A delayed description

A ship agent based at a transhipment port was required to submit a declaration to customs authorities in respect of a container of 990 cases of cigarettes being transhipped at that port. The agent

Heartless owner

Heartless owner

A yacht manager performed a successful coordination of a medical emergency response in respect of a crew member that felt ill. A helicopter collected the crew member from the yacht and took him to a

Don’t rock the boat

A yacht broker incorrectly marketed a yacht as having zero speed stabilisers, which it in fact did not have. The owners of the yacht brought a claim against the broker alleging that this

ITIC held its first complimentary Contract Management Workshop on Thursday 27th February 2013...

ITIC held its first complimentary Contract Management Workshop on Thursday 27th February 2013...

A group of 15 ITIC members, insurance brokers and account executives gathered around a horseshoe shaped table last Thursday morning to attend an ITIC workshop on Contract Management.  This is

ITIC Circular: Indian service tax extended

ITIC would like to draw your attention to the recent extension of service tax to apply to freight received by foreign owners and charterers for goods imported into India. The imposition of this tax

Event: Contracting out of problems - An ITIC workshop discussion on using contracts - Thursday 6th June 2013

ITIC is hosting another complimentary Contract Management Workshop for Members on Thursday 6th June 2013. The workshop will be interactive and will look at: the clauses you needthe

ISM Code and Charterparties (Circular 03/04/98)

Our Ref: 97/02 3rd April 1998 To Shipbroker Members and their Insurance Brokers Members will be aware that the first key date for implementation of the ISM Code is 1st July 1998. Many of our

Fraud from Within

Members may come under pressure to collude in a fraud, particularly by issuing bills of lading which contain incorrect information, often to comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit. We mean the

Wrong test used

In many trade contracts, where the specification of the product is important, buyers and sellers will often agree that the quality will be determined by an independent expert and that the expert's