No. 3 - 2008, November on the Prestige and MSC Napoli cases Page 10-13 TheHarren & Partner GroupPage 8-9 MEMBER PORTRAIT Piracy preventative measures Page 16-17 The Swedish Club Letter 3–2008 Content Leading article The road ahead 3 Loss Prevention P&I www.excelload.com …a one-step source for cargo securing computation 4-5 Fatalities in enclosed spaces 6-7 Member portrait The Harren & Partner Group 8-9 Salvage Prestige and MSC Napoli: two very different approaches 10-13 Regulations IMO calls for increased damage stability of cargo and passenger vessels 12-13 ISM Spelling out the need to avoid a prescriptive ISM 14-15 Piracy Rocketing piracy calls for insurance review 16-17 Claims report New Flame – Progressing one of the most difficult wreck removals of recent times 18-21 Club Information News from Piraeus 21 Cargo Safe reefer operations onboard 22-23 MRM New MRM training providers 24 Out and About with MRM 24-25 FD&D Rule B attachment of EFTs – Are you playing offense, defense or both? 26-29 Claimants seeking to attach ”EFTs” head into overtime – Are you in the game? 30-33 Club Information News from Asia / New Members / Basic Facts 33 American Liberty ship becomes Greek 34 Out and About 35 Staff kick-off 36-37 Staff News 38 Public Holidays 38 Historical Corner – The Swedish Club Medical Center 1945-1955 39 Club Calendar 40 Head Office Sweden Greece 5th Floor, 87 Akti Miaouli Visiting adress Gullbergs Strandgata 6 GR-185 38 Piraeus 411 04 Göteborg Greece Tel +30 211 120 8400 Postal adress P.O. Box 171 Fax +30 210 452 5957 SE-401 22 Göteborg Sweden E-mail [email protected] The Swedish Club is a mutual marine insurance Tel +46 31 638 400 Emergency tel +30 6944 530 856 Fax +46 31 156 711 company, owned and controlled by its mem- Japan Suzuyo Hamamatsucho Building 5F E-mail [email protected] bers. The Club writes Hull & Machinery, War risks, 2-1-16 Kaigan, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105-0022 Emergency tel +46 31 151 328 Japan Protection & Indemnity, Loss of Hire, Freight Tel +81 3 5442 5466 (24 hour tel) Demurrage & Defence insurance and any addi- Hong Kong Suite 6306, Central Plaza Fax +81 3 5442 5922 18 Harbour Road, Wanchai tional insurance required by shipowners. Hong Kong E-mail [email protected] Tel +852 2598 6238 Fax +852 2845 9203 E-mail [email protected] www.swedishclub.com Emergency tel +852 2598 6464 2 The Swedish Club Letter 3–2008 Leading Article The road ahead Lars Rhodin Managing Director To take the helm at The Swedish Club is an honour coupled with the past, at least not of this magnitude. Claim values are increasing, great leadership responsibilities. Frans Malmros has been exemplary claim frequencies are on the rise – all related to the recent shipping during the transition period, allowing me to step gradually into the boom – amid financial turbulence. Never has the call for underwrit- decision-making process. I give him credit for his efforts in handing ing discipline been more valid than it is today. We should appreciate over seamlessly. what we know and also what we do not know. We shall do our best We have a fine Club with great traditions, strong values and loyal to manage the manageable. membership. Our brand name is second to none. This is our legacy, The Club is its membership and the people set to run the opera- and our strength is derived from what we have delivered in the past. tion. We are committed to our task of providing efficient insurance I have always felt proud of working for the Club; a respectable com- related services. We should be reliable in whatever we do. Insurance pany with dedicated members. Likewise, I have always believed in is a promise; to respond to a situation giving rise to a claim under the our ability to meet future needs and to develop services to members policy. Members entrust their fleets with us, and we shall respond accordingly. as we have undertaken to do. Our approach will be proactive in The Swedish Club stands for rapid casualty response, efficient nature, may it be underwriting, casualty response or claims manage- claims management, loss prevention and security. The mutual was ment. We have to make a difference. That is our quest! formed out of necessity in the days when the conventional market To develop the Club means that those of us working for the mem- was not prepared to handle the new risks lying ahead. We have a pur- bership need to improve. Improve our standards and strive for best pose; to meet shipowners’ insurance needs as they are transformed practices in all areas. We provide an added value. The members’ ap- at any given time. In most cases insurance is reactive in its nature. preciation of our services is our only yardstick. I promise to do my However, it is our mission to approach casualties and eventualities best in my new role and look forward to teaming up with all of you in a proactive manner. Loss prevention is the finest art in this field. in the effort to making what is already great even greater. We shall To run an insurance club is not just a matter of rating exposures. We remain the preferred choice of discerning shipowners. shall do our part in reducing claims and in assisting our stakehold- Yours sincerely, ers in managing the cost associated with them. We strongly believe in the positive effects of efficient implementation of Maritime Re- source Management. Our legacy apart, we are set to address the challenges that lie ahead. As of the time of writing, we operate in a largely volatile en- vironment with features that perhaps have not been experienced in P hoto The Swedish Club Letter is published three Editorial Advisory Board Peter Andersson, Susanne Blomstrand, : S : canpi times a year and distributed free of charge to ves- Birgitta Hed, Lars Malm, Tord Nilsson, Lars Rhodin, X/AFPP sels insured with us and to our members. Carola Weidenholm hoto The Swedish Club Letter is an editorially inde- Production co-ordinator Susanne Blomstrand /L pendent newsletter and opinions expressed by eon PR-consultant TRS Public Relations Ltd., London N external contributors are not necessarily those of eal The Swedish Club. Articles herein are not in- Layout Eliasson Information, Göteborg tended to provide legal advice and the Club does Print PR Offset, Mölndal not accept responsibility for errors or omissions © The Swedish Club. Articles or extracts may be quoted provided or their consequences. For further information that The Swedish Club is credited as the source. Cover photo: The tanker MSC Napoli regarding any issue raised herein, please contact beached near Branscombe in Devon, our head office in Göteborg. 0811PR5200B 23 January 2007. 3 The Swedish Club Letter 3–2008 Loss Prevention P&I A one-step source for cargo securing computation ExcelLoad Cargo Securing rangement can be made for the specifi c type of Solutions is the result of Stefan Järlhem cargo. This lashing protocol is then automati- more than ten years of co- Managing Director cally distributed via email to all interested and operation between Cargo Translogic Consulting & Service Co Ltd, relevant parties in the transport process. Bangkok Control AB, Sweden, and Translogic Consulting & Can be used as a search tool Notwithstanding many years of discussions Service Co. Ltd., Thailand. The database containing all lashing protocols on the securing of cargo in load carriers, opinions Together they have more can also be used to search for specifi c protocols still vary, not only among the supply chain part- than 60 years of experience by those persons possessing the authority from ners, but also within the traffi c police, who are from the transportation our customers to conduct this kind of search. It one of the authorities with the power to inspect and logistics industry. could be very useful prior to a random inspection cargo securing arrangements inside load carriers Stefan Järlhem, founder of of a load carrier fi rst to check the load carrier in in transit. Translogic, has also served the database. If it is represented, and the issuing While the question of responsibility for se- as offi cer and captain in the date of the lashing protocol is within a reason- curing cargo is still being discussed within the Swedish merchant fl eet. able time range, there is no need to open up the Ministry of Commerce, there are (thank heav- specifi c load carrier to check its securing arrange- ens), parties within a common industrial fl ow ments, and the time can be used to check other of heavy Swedish goods who prioritize the per- load carriers instead. formance of the cargo securing arrangement. To- The lashing protocol is attached to relevant gether, these parties have created cargo securing cargo documentation to follow the cargo in tran- routines to maintain a high level of safety during sit and will, upon any inspection of the cargo the whole transport, from production to the fi nal securing arrangement, show that the cargo is se- destination of the cargo. cured in line with the relevant rules and demands from the authorities. Unique lashing protocol Currently the calculations are made accord- Rederi AB Transatlantic and Stjärnfrakt AB are ing to the 1998 :2 report from the Swedish Trans- two carriers for a joint customer within a fi xed port Research Board (TFK) “Securing of Cargo fl ow of cargo between Sweden and the UK. They – Loading and Securing Cargo on Load Carriers.