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How long have you worked at ITIC? My ITIC career started 34 years ago in 1988, when I was a claims handler at CISBACLUB. I left to work in Cyprus at what is now Marsh. I then started at ITIC just…

Following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union in 2020 and the conclusion of the transition period on 31st December 2020, ITIC put in place arrangements to provide service…

Welcome to this edition of ITIC’s electronic newsletter, The Wire, which focusses specifically on ship classification societies. A ship classification society is an organisation that, inter alia; …

The shipping industry is one of the most litigious in the world. Most classed ships are owned by international shipowners and trade internationally. Classification societies are regarded as a…

The Maltese-flagged oil tanker ERIKA broke apart off the west coast of France and severely polluted the French coastline in December 1999. Alongside others, the French State sued…

In November 2002, the Bahamas-flagged oil tanker PRESTIGE, heading from the Baltic to Asia with a cargo of heavy fuel oil, began to break up in bad weather in the Bay of Biscay. Upon…

A classification society surveyor had given an 80 foot steel hulled motor yacht a periodical special survey and had passed the yacht as “100 A1”. The surveyor knew that a purchaser was interested in…

There was an explosion and fire aboard a ship causing the death of two crew members. A classification society classed the ship and issued an ISM certificate for it. The source of ignition had not…

A charterer alleged to have suffered losses as a result of misleading and deceptive conduct by the classification society in the classification of an offshore supply vessel. The charterer alleged…

In 2016, a bulk carrier suffered a stern shaft breakage during a voyage, causing the engine room to be flooded with seawater and leaving the ship out of control. The shipowner immediately arranged…