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New director joins the club

Freight and logistics insurance provider, the TT Club has appointed Kevin King as regional director Europe, Middle East and Africa. Based in London, he is a qualified US attorney having joined Thomas Miller in 1996 and has worked across both the TT Club and UK P&I Club operations in their New Jersey, San Francisco and former Houston offices. He joined Thomas Miller’s Americas regional headquarters in New Jersey in 2006 ... [+]

IMO adopts weighing and packing measures – but now the hard work begins

Insurers the TT Club have welcomed the adoption by the International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee of the amendment to SOLAS (the Convention for Safety of Life at Sea) on verification of gross mass for containers, toll become mandatory in July 2016. However, it says, much work remains to be done ... [+]

Young forwarder finalists

TT Club has revealed the four regional finalists in FIATA’s Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award. They are: Africa/Middle East:    Miss Fortunate Nompumelelo Mboweni, South Africa Americas:   Mr Douglas Whitlock, Canada Asia-Pacific:   Mr Saiful Ridhwan Bin Zulkifli, Singapore Europe:    Mr Christian Hensen, Germany The finalists will travel to Istanbul, Turkey for the FIATA ... [+]

TT Club gains Philippines partner

The TT Club has appointed Del Rosario Pandiphil as its a network partner in the Philippines, the multimodal insurer's seventh in the Asia-Pacific region. As a network partner, Del Rosario's operation will be integrated into the Club’s claims IT system and  receive delegated claims handling authority. TT Club’s regional directorfor ... [+]

Young Freight Forwarder – regional winners

Regional winners of this year's FIATA Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award, sponsored by the TT Club, are: Africa/Middle East: Mr Mohamed Samy, Egypt; Americas: Mr Kaloyan Petrov, Canada; Asia-Pacific:  Mr Prabhjot Singh, India; and Europe: Miss Janna Marie van Burgeler, Germany. The finalists will travel to Singapore this ... [+]

TT Club in India

TT Club, the specialist insurer for the international transport and logistics industry, has appointed Pandi Correspondents as network partner in India. The new recruit has offices in Chennai, Kolkata and Goa in addition to Mumbai will be integrated into TT Club’s claims IT system and has been delegated claims handling ... [+]

TT Club: 45 years of insuring the world’s containers

Container freight insurer TT Club is celebrating 45 years of service to the transport and logistics sector. The club, then known as the Through Transit Club was formed in 1968, the same year that the first purpose-built cellular container ship took to the high seas. The onset of containerisation revolutionised international ... [+]

New course to tackle poor packing

Transport insurer TT Club and Exis Technologies have come together to develop an online training tool for those involved in the loading and unloading of containers or similar equipment. The foundation CTUpack e-learning will be launched later this year and it will evolve to reflect developments and updates to the ... [+]

More efforts needed on container weights

The TT Club called for more renewed efforts to reach an acceptable global regulation on container weight verification, following a “frustrating” International Maritime Organisation session in late September.  The insurer urged all those involved in container operations to prepare in good time for changes to regulations. TT Club said there was ... [+]

Safer cargo: It’s in your hands, says TT Club expert

A large proportion of insurance claims are the result of deficiencies in operators' own systems or processes, according to a paper presented by by TT Club director Laurence Jones to the TOC conference. The Club’s director of global risk assessment told the conference on 14 March that 43% of the ... [+]

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