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…
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…
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…
In the high pressure world of FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) consignments are often switched to new delivery points at the last minute, as the sales organisation tries to take advantage of sudden…
In TT Talk No. 53 we wrote that vertical tandem lifting should only be used for handling empty containers, as the connecting locks were not designed to carry the weight of loaded containers.
Iain Sharples from the Clubs office in Sydney reports on a recent case in which the Australian Federal Court had to consider the perennially contentious issue of what constitutes a package under the…
Our friends at Hazworld remind us of the dangers to workers that can arise from spillages and leakages of chemicals and point out that some of the nastiest chemicals have a lethal effect on humans at…
How much does cargo crime really cost? Globally, the value of stolen cargoes runs into hundreds of billions of dollars each year. The FBI estimates this figure for the US alone at over USD 18 billion…
