IUMI Podcast

Frédéric Denèfle’s first 100 days as IUMI President

In the first podcast of 2023, we speak to Frédéric Denèfle, the new IUMI President, for a roundup of his first 100 days in the job. 

Since taking up the role following the IUMI conference in Chicago last year, Frédéric Denèfle has had a busy timetable. In this episode, he reflects on the immediate challenges and surprises, changes to IUMI’s leadership structure, the popularity of the new IUMI Masterclass, the Black Sea Grain Initiative and more. 

Sanctions

Since the outbreak of the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in February this year, the subject of international sanctions has been at the forefront of industry concerns. On December 3, 2022, G7 members formally set a price cap on Russian oil at 60 USD per barrel. This applies to oil products originating in or exported from Russia. In this podcast, we sat down with Christopher Jones, Director of Legal and Market Services of the International Underwriting Association and Neil Roberts, Head of Marine & Aviation at Lloyds List. Together, these two industry experts outlined what the impact of the price cap will be, the challenges facing the maritime sector and how insurers are coping with the new complexities.

IUMI Eye podcast now out

Our popular quarterly newsletter IUMI Eye is now available as a podcast and features interviews with some of the authors. Highlights of this edition include ShipIn’s Amit Shalev who discusses loss prevention using AI, IUMI Secretary General Lars Lange on the latest IMO Maritime Safety Committee session; HFW on the implications for insurers of the NordStream pipeline attack; Julian Kirkman-Page of Russell Group on how a holistic view of trade can help marine insurers understand current and future exposure, as well as more details on IUMI’s Masterclass in Cargo Insurance programme.

 

IUMI Facts & Figures Report

Twice a year, industry reports are presented by the IUMI Facts & Figures Committee, outlining the most up-to-date key shipping and marine insurance data and statistics, as well as providing an overview of marine, offshore and related industries. In this podcast, we sit down with leading members of IUMI’s Facts and Figures Committee: Jun Lin, Vice-President of Gard, and Astrid Seltmann from Cefor, the Nordic Association of Marine Insurers to discuss how the marine insurance industry faired in 2021, the challenges it faces heading into 2023, and some of the key takeaways from this year’s Facts and Figures report. 

Containership Fires

Containership fires are one of the most significant hazards affecting the shipping industry. IUMI has long advocated for better fire detection and extinguishing systems. In this podcast we sit down with Uwe-Peter Schieder, Vice Chair of IUMI's Loss Prevention Committee; Anders Kristensen, Project Manager for the CARGOSAFE Study at the DBI and Lorena Cifuentes, Research Consultant at DBI to discuss the CARGOSAFE study and developments in fire safety technology.

4 years in the hot seat. Interview with outgoing IUMI President Richard Turner

In this month's podcast we meet Richard Turner, outgoing IUMI President and discuss data, ESG and the future of marine insurance. After four years as IUMI President, Richard Turner will be stepping down at the IUMI Chicago 2022 Conference. In this podcast Richard reflects on his time in office and offers some advice to his successor. 

IUMI Chicago 2022 Conference

This month we sat down with Lars Lange, Secretary General of IUMI, and John Miklus, AIMU President and member of the IUMI Chicago 2022 Conference Organizing Committee to discuss the much anticipated IUMI conference, which is taking place in Chicago in September. To find out more about this year's conference and how to register,  just visit iumi2022.com

Study with IUMI and the World Maritime University

In 2020, IUMI and the World Maritime University (WMU) signed an MOU agreeing to work together on areas of mutual interest. The MOU includes a bursary, covering 75% of the full tuition fee, for two marine insurance professionals to complete the WMU’s Marine Insurance Law & Practice Postgraduate Diploma programme.  In this month's IUMI podcast we talk to Dr Henning Jessen, professor and programme coordinator to find out more about the Postgraduate Diploma programme and to Michelangelo Todoro - the first student to be awarded IUMI’s bursary.

International Quality Assessment Review Body

This month we sit down with Lars Lange, IUMI Secretary General, to discuss the International Quality Assessment Review Body (IQARB). IQARB is an advisory body that has been established to review the certification process of the quality management systems of IACS Classification Societies. As chair of the body, Lars discusses the background of IQARB, the role of IMO and flag states in the body, its benefits to IUMI, and what the future of the programme holds.

Major Claims Database

In this month's podcast we speak with Dave Matcham, Chief Executive of the International Underwriting Association and Secretary of the IUMI Facts & Figures Committee, about IUMI's Major Claims Database. In 2018 IUMI launched a pilot project to see if it could create a large and consistent loss database for hull and cargo with standardised data from member companies in order to analyse major losses with respect to loss severity, frequency, location and cause. Now, almost four years on, Dave discusses how the project has progressed, the data that is now being published and what is coming up in the near future.