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Ship management claims review

Ship management claims review

ITIC provides a range of products for managers and agents which cover monies temporarily in the member’s care while in transit to a ship. The cover can also be extended to include monies, including…

Welcome to the Spring edition of ITIC’s Claims Review, April 2020

Welcome to the Spring edition of ITIC’s Claims Review. The Claims Review provides a selection of cases recently handled by ITIC. We hope that these case histories will be of interest to members and…

Lumbering payments

The port had invoiced the agent directly for these charges and in turn the port agent passed the charges to the lumber company for reimbursement. However, despite requesting payment on several…

Trading places

During the course of fixing a ship, the owner’s commercial manager provided a warranty to the potential charterer that the ship had not traded to Sudan in the past three years. However, the…

Pretend payments

The employee of a ship agent created false payment documents in respect of a genuine supplier to the agent. The employee provided all the necessary (false) documentation (including falsified…

Q&A with Mark Brattman

The first in a regular series, we get to know ITIC’s claims handlers. In this interview, ITIC’s Legal Advisor and the new Editor of the Claims Review, Mark Brattman, outlines the most memorable claim…

Making a fishmeal of it

A chartering broker described the ship’s four previous loads as being “grain”. On this basis, the charterers confirmed the fixture with the owners. However, the last cargo was actually fishmeal, and…

Taking on water

A UK based naval architect was appointed by a shipyard in the USA to design a vessel, of which more than one was due to be built. One of the vessels suffered an incident in bad weather. The vessel…

Gift of the grabs

A ship manager was appointed as a new building supervisor by an owner in respect of two ships they had under construction in a Chinese yard with the intention that they would become the managers of…

Error in drafting re-cap

When reaching the final stages of a negotiation for the charter of a ship trading from the Black Sea to Spain, a ship broker applied laytime provisions which had recently been used in a previous…