World Faces Shortage of Sailors for Commercial Ships, Risking Supply Chains: Report July 28, 2021 By Jonathan Saul There could be a shortage of merchant sailors to crew commercial ships in five years if action is not taken...
Global Supply Chains Driven to Breaking Point on New COVID Wave, Natural Disasters July 26, 2021 By Jonathan Saul, Muyu Xu and Yilei Sun LONDON/BEIJING – A new worldwide wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in China and Germany. A cyber attack targeting key South...
Suez Canal Blockage Continues to Disrupt Global Trade, Hitting Supply Chains April 9, 2021 By Jonathan Saul and Timothy Aeppel LONDON/LOS ANGELES – A backlog of container ships carrying consumer goods has grown in some key strategic ports after a...
Reinsurers Will Bear Most of Costs of Container-Ship Grounding in Suez Canal April 8, 2021 By Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn LONDON — Reinsurers are set to foot most of the bill for the grounding of the ship that halted traffic...
Suez Canal Must Upgrade to Avoid Future Shipping Disruption: Sources April 5, 2021 By Jonathan Saul and Patrick Werr CAIRO – Egypt’s Suez Canal must move quickly to upgrade its technical infrastructure if it is to avoid future shipping...
Insurance Unlikely to Cover All Shipowners’ Expenses Incurred in Suez Closure Chaos March 30, 2021 By Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn The owners and charterers of ships unable to sail through the the Suez Canal for nearly a week face at...
Insurers of Container Ship Aground in Suez Canal Face Millions in Claims March 25, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn and Jonathan Saul LONDON – The owner and insurers of one of the world’s largest container ships stuck in the Suez Canal face...
Top Trading Firms Vow to Help Merchants Sailors Stuck on Ships Due to Coronavirus January 26, 2021 By Jonathan Saul Over 300 leading companies said on Tuesday they would work together to help hundreds of thousands of merchant sailors stuck...
Marine Insurers Set to Raise Rates After Red Sea Attacks on Merchant Ships January 13, 2021 By Jonathan Saul LONDON – Insurers are set to raise the cost of providing cover for merchant ships through the Red Sea after...
Insurers Face Liability Uncertainties as Ships Begin to Sail Through Arctic Waters October 27, 2020 By Jonathan Saul When Captain Will Whatley guides a ship through Arctic waters, he is starkly aware of what can go wrong. Double...