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Marine: Outsystems Helping Transform Legacy Port Info Systems

Inchcape Shipping Services has started rolling out its plans to create tailored applications to service 2,500 international ports and 68 countries using the OutSystems high-speed development platform. Inchcape, which has a global network of over 240 […]

Insurance Regulation

UK P&I Club Calls for Action on Crew Changes at Sea

Stuart Edmonston, Loss Prevention Director at UK P&I, discusses the issue of crew changes, mobility and repatriation, calling on governments to implement special exemptions to ease the burden on seafarers: “COVID-19 has paralysed supply chains […]

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Loadsure and Kleinschmidt Partner Up On PAYG Cargo Cover

Loadsure and Kleinschmidt announced today that the companies have partnered to deliver the ability to purchase on-demand, pay-as-you-go cargo insurance to FreightLaunch, Kleinschmidt’s digital freight enablement platform. Loadsure, in combination with Kleinschmidt’s global B2B network—and broad […]

Global insurance trends

Loadsure Strikes Deal with Avalon Risk on Freight Insurance in USA

Loadsure has announced that it has entered into a retail broker agreement with Avalon Risk Management, enabling the London-based managing general agent (MGA) to deliver the transportation industry’s simplest, most efficient, data-driven approach to spot […]

Insurance claims

Marine: UK P&I Offers Useful Safety Advice on Ship Repairs

Stuart Edmonston, Loss Prevention Director at UK P&I Club, discusses an eye injury to a fitter and the lessons that can be learnt from this: “An engine room fitter was instructed to fabricate a steel locking pin […]

Legal

Driverless Shipping? We Are a Long Way From Achieving Automated Freight

The UK is the second least supportive nation in their attitude towards the development of unmanned vessels, according to a study across six territories (United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, Singapore and Hong Kong), and […]

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Concirrus Joins Forces With TransRe on Marine Insurance Project

Concirrus, the marine analytics insurtech company, has agreed to work with TransRe, the global reinsurer, to jointly develop innovative data-driven reinsurance programmes for marine insurers worldwide. The teams will use Quest Marine data and analytics […]