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After forty years in the industry, Gordon McMillan, managing director of Dublin-based Leinster Shipping (Agencies) Ltd., and chairman of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers talks about his love…

Since it’s re-design in November 2001, the Club’s website has received thousands of visitors. Feedback, both directly from the site, as well as through more traditional channels, has brought about…

…a problem for ship agents, not just governments ITIC Members in Europe need no introduction to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It has been in force for the last 40 years and accounts for an…

A conference for P&I Club correspondents was held in Bristol in September 2001. Among the many subjects discussed over the two days, the following was thought to be an interesting range of views…

New legislation will help shipbrokers to collect commission In the last two editions of the “Intermediary“ we have reported on how English law has been amended in a way which will assist brokers to…

ITIC Members (particularly ship agents and ship managers) are regularly sued in addition to, or even instead of, the shipowner. There are a number of reasons for this. In some countries, agents have…

...ITIC's approach ITIC makes it a condition of its insurance that its crew management Members use their best endeavours to be co-assured on their ship owners insurances. In applying this standard…

Suzanne Starbuck of Merlin Corporate Communications charts the development of Forward Freight Agreements (FFAs) in the shipping industry over the last decade and asks if they have a role to play in…

ISM Implementation Phase One The first major worldwide implementation of the ISM Code rolled over the shipping community on 1 July, 1998. In the build-up to that date the maritime press was full of…

A WARNING FOR AGENTS ABC Agency Co were the agents in China for an NVOC based in Washington State, USA which operated a service between the USA and various Asian ports. The NVOC ceased trading…