APMT Buenos Aires wins inaugural safety award, sponsored by specialist insurance provider TT Club, for safety logging systems
International freight insurance provider, TT Club has been enthusiastically supporting the Seahorse Club journalist awards for some years. The Awards are specifically for journalists active in the shipping, freight transport and logistics arena. At the 2015 Awards Presentation the Club again sponsored what it considers to be a significant award category, 'The Newcomer of the Year', which was won by Joe Lo from the magazine Container Management.
The cargo handling industry's representative body launches a safety award, sponsored by specialist insurance provider TT Club, to highlight innovation in improving safety standards in cargo logistics around the world.
Today, the World Shipping Council (WSC), the TT Club, the International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA), and the Global Shippers' Forum (GSF) jointly released a new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document to address issues arising from the new container weighing regulations due to take effect globally on 1 July 2016. The amendments to the SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Convention require packed shipping containers to have a verified gross mass (VGM) before they can be loaded on a ship for export.
The global freight transport insurer is encouraging supply chain stakeholders to understand better the interrelationship of the various functions in the intermodal network, particularly in the United States where one effect of the enlarged Panama Canal will be to increase importers' routing options in order to supply internal markets
Leading Insurance provider to the international freight transport industry, TT Club has published a mid-year trading update for the eight-month period 1 January - 31 August 2015.
As the political and humanitarian situation in Calais continues to unfold, the specialist freight transport insurer, TT Club provides a perspective on the implications for the freight and haulage industry.
TT Club welcomes the initiative of the World Shipping Council (WSC) in its recent publication of guidelines to the industry in relation to implementing the SOLAS requirements that become mandatory on 1 July 2016.
Speaking at the TOC Container Supply Chain Conference in Rotterdam last week, freight insurance specialist TT Club's Kevin King called for all parties to take responsibility for minimising the risks inherent in container freight transportation.
BEWARE "TRUCKS" BEARING GIFTS
15/06/2015
Have you felt nervous driving next to a truck on a bend or roundabout? Your apprehension could well be justified. There are too many incidents where trucks, especially those carrying containers, overturn when cornering and discharge unwanted gifts on adjacent vehicles. Unfortunately fatalities often result. Never.never drive next to a truck on a roundabout!!!
Speaking at the Trans Middle East Conference in Doha, Qatar last month, Julien Horn, TT Club's Middle East Regional Executive and Director of TTMS (Gulf), the Network Partner based in Dubai, lay particular emphasis on the role human error plays in creating damaging incidents at cargo handling terminals and other facilities.