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A new safety video to raise awareness of safety issues for crew members working in adverse weather. This video is the second in a series aimed at addressing the most critical safety issues facing the seafarers.

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The Group is pleased to announce that from 20th February 2025, paperless trading systems will be ‘deemed approved’, if they comply with certain requirements. The requirements for ‘deemed approval’ are:

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Assureds who have vessels carrying dangerous goods to and/or from Chinese ports should note that the Ministry of Transport in China (‘MOT’) has released amended “Regulations on the Safety Supervision and Management of Ships Carrying Dangerous Goods”.  These amended Regulations will come into effect on 1st March 2025 and replace the existing 2018 Regulations. Chinese law firm, Hai Tong & Partners have provided an overview of the amended Regulations, along with a link to the regulation on the MOT website, as follows:

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A fire broke out on 30 January at a shipyard south of the Suez Canal in Egypt, destroying multiple fishing boats and other vessels.

The fire that broke out in the shipyard on 30 January in the Adabiya area, south of the Suez Canal, burned for about six hours before emergency teams managed to successfully contain it. Local reports state that the director of Civil Defence Forces dispatched 12 fire trucks to the site to contain the flames and prevent them from spreading to nearby fishing boats and other vessels.