Do you know what’s inside the box?
Very important question, if you had listened to Martyn Haines, Senior Claims Director, UK P&I Club. The gentleman was providing a protection & indemnity insurer’s perspective on “Weighing containers: is it really that difficult?” in a London conference on 29th June organised by Dunelm Public Relations and sponsored by the UK Club. The huge liabilities which can be incurred by ship owners when containers are lost overboard are frequently compounded by the problems of establishing the circumstances surrounding a particular incident and incomplete knowledge of the containers’ contents. (more…)
