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Contractual challenges interview series: uncollected and abandoned cargo

Mike Yarwood, Managing Director Loss Prevention is joined by Manos Karanikolas, Senior Claims Executive, to discuss the risks and challenges surrounding uncollected or abandoned cargo. Uncollected cargo is a perennial challenge for freight forwarders and NVOCC operators. The issue can result in considerable costs on container demurrage, detention, storage and disposal costs. Aside from the purely monetary risks, incidents of uncollected cargo demand a significant management resource to resolve a...

Nov 10, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 1

TT Talk - November 2020: legal eagle - potential new exposures

This first instance judgment in relation to a charterparty dispute has the potential to spawn a range of liability exposures that could reverberate through the complex network of supply chain contracts. Most particularly the reasoning may expose ports and terminals in non-liner trades.

Nov 03, 2020•6 min

TT Talk - November 2020: crane collisions & allisions

Whether for bulk handling or container operations, the quayside crane is critical for performing ship to shore services. This vital tool is also vulnerable to significant damage when impacted by a ship during berthing. While relatively low frequency, such incidents carry high consequence in direct damage, business disruption and potential for injury.

Nov 03, 2020•8 min

TT Talk - November 2020: Mitigating the impact of windstorms in container terminals

Analysis of TT Club's claims experience continues to highlight the vulnerability of quay cranes, other handling equipment and containers to major weather related incidents at marine terminals. Despite the large mass, it is not uncommon for these cranes to be blown along the crane rails, potentially into other equipment or toppling over, giving rise to extensive damage.

Nov 03, 2020•7 min

TT Talk - October 2020: safe container practices in Australia

Coinciding with the international launch of ‘CTU Code – a quick guide’, the Safe Container Loading Practices and Heavy Vehicle Safety campaign was launched in Australia, following an award of government funding. While the emphasis is on road safety in Australia, the messages are consistent with those of the Cargo Integrity Group.

Nov 02, 2020•6 min

TT Talk - October 2020: addressing cargo packing malpractice

TT Club has been at the heart of a long-term campaign to increase awareness of good cargo packing practices, both as part of responding to incidents and through speaking at industry events. These efforts are now galvanised in the ‘Cargo Integrity Group’.

Nov 02, 2020•8 min

TT Talk - September 2020: in transit storage

The curse of cargo theft continues to impact stakeholders in the supply chain. Analysis of incidents, increased data sharing agreements, collaborations and widespread dissemination of findings, all serve to improve understanding of the underlying risks.

Nov 02, 2020•9 min

TT Talk - September 2020: reimagining secure truck parking

Appreciating that where opportunity exists, innovation follows, TT closely monitors developments in a number of sectors. Developments in supply chain security in particular are of high interest, whether it is a new locking device, a tamperproof security seal, smart containers or initiatives to make wholesale fundamental changes to the current security landscape. One security innovation that TT has been monitoring over the last 12 months is a product brought to market by Freightsafe and BOSCH Sec...

Nov 02, 2020•6 min

TT Talk - August 2020: legal eagle - know the shipper

This judgment sets out a useful analysis of contracts where a court will examine the conduct of the parties and surrounding circumstances to reach a conclusion. Carriers should be alerted to the importance of knowing who they are dealing with, ensuring that the shipper on a bill of lading is correctly identified.

Nov 02, 2020•8 min

TT Talk August 2020: dangerous goods debate – count us in!

Apart from the recent devastating explosion in Beirut, there has been a spate of ro-ro/car carrier fires in recent months, leading to fresh calls for improvements, scrutiny and control in relation to dangerous goods (DG). Container ship fires are always in mind.

Nov 02, 2020•10 min

TT Talk - August 2020: limited quantities

Non-declared or mis-declared cargo entered into the international supply chain, vastly increases the risk to cargo, property, the environment and most importantly the lives of all individuals moving the goods. Goods may be shipped under the provisions of limited quantities (LQ), partly taking the goods outside of the application of the relevant DG regulatory requirements, thus avoiding or attracting a lower surcharge.

Nov 02, 2020•7 min

TT Talk - July 2020: discussion of cargo worthy containers

The use of standardised containers for much of global trade has become second nature; the range of cargo types utilising such units continues to expand. There is significant reliance placed by the various stakeholders on the overall integrity of the concept, some explicit and some implicit.

Nov 02, 2020•9 min

TT Talk - July 2020: containers do not just fall from the sky

TT Club has previously reported on incident experience whereby containers have dropped from lifting equipment during handling operations. Recurrence appears, as previously, to have nothing to do with the intrinsic quality of the corner castings. The reliability of the lifting process is critical.

Nov 02, 2020•7 min

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