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Signing off on purchase orders as 'agents only' (Ref 0208)

This circular was originally issued in 2008, but this advice still remains valid in 2020: Our Ref: 0208 December 2008 To: Ship manager members of ITIC and their insurance brokers Ship managers

ITIC IN THE NEWS: Providing a clear signature - article by Andrew Jamieson in latest edition of The Baltic magazine

Brokers can be pressured into issuing revised recaps or draft charterparties reflecting what one side claims to have been the basis of an agreement. It is rarely prudent to issue such documents,

Press Release: Owner claims against manager for failure to update ballast water management plan

Failure to keep a proper onboard record of regulatory and legislative changes can have costly consequences for shipowners and their intermediaries, as evidenced by a claim recently handled by

Press Release: ITIC warns on the potential cost of being an expert

International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has warned that the role of expert witness should not be undertaken lightly and that all professionals acting in this capacity should be aware that

Press Release: Failure to check charterparty wording catches ship manager off guard

Press Release: Failure to check charterparty wording catches ship manager off guard

International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has urged ship brokers and managers to check the terms of their charterparty agreements closely before signing, in order to avoid costly mistakes

Ship Management International column July/August 2017 - Don't get stuck with owners' debts

To see the article as it appears in Ship Management International please click here. (page 100) Ship managers must be extremely cautious when signing purchase orders. ITIC has seen an increase in

The cost of Unrestrained Access to the Internet by the crew

It was the policy of a shipping company to upgrade the communications packages on all their time chartered and owned vessels from systems which provided e-mail and satellite telephone communications

The use of instant messages...

The use of e-mail messages has been featured in previous ITIC publications. In the 2002 edition of the Intermediary the subject of Instant Messenger Systems, such as AOL, Yahoo and MSN Messenger, was

ITIC’s Terms and Conditions for Shipbrokers

Historically shipbrokers have been one of the only marine professionals not to use standard terms and conditions when contracting. However this practice has been changing. Over the last couple of

Off duty messages

It was the weekend and a member of a tanker broker’s operations staff was not on duty. A message was received on their phone, which was linked to their individual email address. The email was sent