Leading transport insurance provider TT Club has extended its long-term cooperation with BIFA (the British International Freight Association) by sponsorship of its Supply Chain Management Award at the latest annual Freight Service Awards ceremony.
Too many transport operators, from NVOCCs and logistics providers to terminal facilities, are worryingly uninformed about the extent of their insurance cover, the TT Club has warned.
As regular readers of this newsletter will know, judges in many countries are constantly being asked to decide whether a container is a "package", or whether it is rather the items inside that count for limitation purposes. Perhaps the British Department of Health can help.
An increasingly regular occurrence in the Club's mail bag is the arrival of tales of woe from members who have found themselves faced with enormous bills for container detention or demurrage charges, quay rent and other similar costs.
Following the item in TT Talk No. 53 about vertical tandem lifting, Andrew Kemp in the Club's Singapore office draws our attention to the imminent arrival of a crane that can lift two 40' units simultaneously.
TT Club, the transport insurance mutual association, has expressed concern at an apparently widespread lack of awareness of changes in the legal status of the International Maritime Organization's International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code) and its implications.
At its recent biennial conference in Bangkok, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decided to place ramin (a south-east Asian tree that produces high-value timber) and agar wood (which produces "agar" oil) in Appendix II.
One of the regular occurrences in the Club's claims-handling departments is the arrival of a bundle of documents, including photographs of a formerly rectangular container converted into a trapezoid shape.
