JANUARY 17, 2025 INDUSTRY QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE FOR SHIPPING CHARCOAL IN CONTAINERS: NEW RULES BEGINNING IN 2025 The International Group of P&I Clubs, the World Shipping Council and the TT…
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Washington/London/Brussels/Singapore, Friday 17 January 2025 – The shipping industry is taking proactive steps to implement improved safety measures for transporting charcoal, ahead of mandatory IMO regulations in 2026. In response to a…
TT Club applauds UK Parliamentary calls for more resource to tackle freight crime
The specialist freight transport insurer has long campaigned for heightening awareness of freight crime and the need for additional security and policing resources. TT therefore greatly welcomed the recent cross-party…
Steady growth in flexitank usage around the world prompts container owners and specialist insurer to offer safety guidelines to assist shippers, forwarders, carriers and terminals to handle cargo carried in…
Prompted by the recent spate of container ship fires, international freight and logistics insurance provider TT Club has stressed the greater need for all players in the global supply chain…
London, 1st August 2024 – Kevin King has been confirmed as Chief Executive Officer of the specialist transport and logistics insurer TT Club, completing a planned move announced last year. Acting…
The demand for organisations across the freight transport spectrum to develop a cogent ESG – Environment, Social, Governance – policy is ever increasing. Leading insurance provider to the sector, TT…
Ten Organisations Unite to Combat Illegal Wildlife Trafficking in Global Supply Chains
20 March 2024 – Wildlife crime continues to pose a significant threat to biodiversity, local and national economies, as well as national and international security. The illicit trafficking of wildlife…
Two major UK maritime insurers, the UK P&I Club and TT Club, become members of the Cargo Fire & Loss Innovation Initiative. Safetytech Accelerator is pleased to confirm that major…
Celebrating Young Talent in Logistics – FIATA and TT Club Announce Winners of the Young Logistics Professionals (YLP) Award 2023
FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations and TT Club, the leading international freight transport insurer, are excited to unveil this year’s outstanding regional achievers of the Young Logistics Professionals…
Industry bodies unite in producing Guidelines for safe transport of Lithium-ion batteries in containers.
First in a series of in-depth advisory publications aimed at minimising the risks of transporting lithium-ion batteries and cells launched amid heightened concern over container fires London, 28th March 2023 The Lithium-ion…
Held for the fifth time, the Innovation in Safety Award attracted entrants from thirteen countries and featured a wide variety of functionality across the cargo handling industry, from digitalisation processes,…
The winner of the prestigious safety award made possible by the collaboration of ICHCA International (ICHCA) and TT Club for the fifth time was announced as AP Moller Maersk for its…
The National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) is a police unit with a freight team that collates, analyses and disseminates Road Freight Crime information across England and Wales. The unit…
The shipping industry has been a hive of activity around the opportunities of digitalisation for a number of years and significant advances have been made in many areas. Inevitably, the…
ICHCA Battery Safety Week – Day 1: Introduction and Li-Ion battery risk whitepaper from TT Club, UK P&I Club and Brookes Bell
In October we hosted three world class speakers for a webinar on the risks associated with Lithium Ion batteries, particularly risk of fire. There is an increasing recognition of the…
Insurers TT Club and UK P&I Club have teamed up with scientific consultants, Brookes Bell, and issued a whitepaper highlighting the continuing safety threat created by the transportation of lithium-ion…
Engendering safety improvements is often an iterative process, with twists and turns, reassessments and starting again from first principles. Human knowledge continues to change, and behaviours are modified through improved…
Peregrine Storrs-Fox, Risk Management Director Working at height remains one of the biggest causes of fatality and major injury in the workplace. The common perception is that these relate to…
It cannot be overstated how critical it is to maintain good practice when shipping dangerous goods. 14 July 2022 sees the passing of the tenth anniversary of the fateful Atlantic crossing…
TT Club urges IMO Member States to increase container and cargo inspections and submit reports urgently
Past reporting of inspections carried out has been sparse. In welcoming the IMO’s revised guidelines for inspections, the international freight transport insurer TT Club exhorts governments to report findings to…
So say TT Club and ICHCA which, with the support of TOC Europe, are emphasising their message by launching an inaugural Safety Village at the upcoming conference and exhibition in…
Joint report of 2021 global cargo theft trends finds shift in emphasis from risk of in-transit, vehicle- based attacks to losses while cargo is at-rest — storage locations are critical…
Current geopolitical tensions have inevitably raised the stakes in general perception around security, as well as, tragically, huge displacement of the population of Ukraine. The sobering reality from experience is…
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