Insurance, Legal & Finance

This summer’s report on the US Coast Guard is not only damning about the need for forward looking, realistic targets when it comes to maintenance, it also carries lessons more broadly applicable.

More needs to be done to bring industry and academia together as a matter of urgency, says Alf Baird of Edinburgh Napier University.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is part of the World Bank Group that provides development loans to poor nations.

It’s a complex case dealing with owners refusal of charters orders and piracy risks, but MJ talked with Rebecca Warder of HFW to understand the implications of the recent Conwartime 2004 Clause…

At present it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain equity capital from investors, and loan capital from banks for vessel finance, but though times are difficult there will also be winners.

The number of significant oil spills had decreased from about 23 per year in the 1970s to just three per year during the past 10 years, while the volume of maritime trade…

The question of whose terms of trading apply in a contract remains one of the most common causes of dispute between commercial contracting parties.