International Union of Marine Insurance's Cargo Committee
COMMITMENTS:
  • Insurance risk managers to contribute to training
  • Work with P&I Clubs (through IG) to further develop  minimum survey requirements
  • Explore ways to share info on substandard vessels
  • Liaise more closely with ship repairers during every  stage of major repair work

International Group of P&I Clubs
COMMITMENTS:
  • Procedures (additional survey requirements) for heavy fuel oil.
  • Double pooling retention provisions – special financial penalty on a club underwriting a substandard ship – needs clear definition of substandard
  • Designated vessels as substandard – addressing what
    we mean by substandard
  • Initiative towards and participation in IOPC Fund WG on non-technical mea sures to promote quality shipping for carriage of oil by sea; consideration of possible insurance measures and mechanisms to improve the safe transportation of oil and sharing of information
  • Quality performance monitoring for measuring what were doing - survey database, claims database, designated vessel data, monitoring psc detentions.
  • Finalise the design of, and implement, doubleretention financial penalty on underwriting substandard ships
  • Improve claim data statistics within the IG to help identify how incidents are occurring
  • Reduce the percentage of port state control detentions involving ships entered in IG clubs