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The agent in Thailand was appointed to act for the Hong Kong owners of a ship which called at Bangkok to load a cargo of 13,300 MT of bagged rice for discharge in West Africa.  On completion of

In a recent case, a ship agent in the Far East was nominated by the voyage charterer (a well known trading house) to be the agent for the disponent owner (a well known and reputable shipping

It is important that Members ensure that their systems can cope with the pressures upon them. A liner company introduced a system for worldwide container control. The Member was one of their agents

More and more cases of fraud are being reported to ITIC. Fraudsters use brokers, agents and ship managers as a vehicle for crime. The result leaves them exposed to a liability as a result of

A pool manager misdescribed a tanker as being acceptable to a specific oil major, even though he had received an email from the head owners prior to fixing that stated she had been rejected by them.

A marine consultant and marine surveyor worked under the company name of ABC Ltd (not the real name). The surveyor, without realising, used the logo (really just a type of font) of another company

A yacht broker was responsible for receiving charter hire payments from the charterer and passing them on to the owner. The yacht was fixed to provide a cruise around the Mediterranean.

The work of many of ITIC’s members, particularly those involved in design, such as naval architects, involves intellectual property rights and obligations. Obviously, members cannot deliberately

In recent years liner operators have been rushing to Germany for their new tonnage. Several have set up their own ship management companies in Germany. They have done so because, during the 1990s,

Port state authorities around the world, but most notably in the USA, Germany and France, are taking an increasingly hard line on ships which have, or are suspected of having, breached the MARPOL