IUMI Podcast

What role can tech start-ups play in digitalising the marine insurance industry?

On this special episode of the IUMI podcast, chair of IUMI’s Data & Digitalisation Forum, Patrizia Kern, interviews Osher Perry, founder and CEO of ShipIn Systems. ShipIn offers onboard CCTV solutions for vessels that allows shoreside personnel to get the visibility needed during critical operations. It is also an IUMI Professional Partner.

Together, Patrizia and Osher discuss the digitisation of marine insurance, working with clients in an age of rapid digital expansion, accessing relevant data, implementing digitised business conduct, and much more.

IUMI Eye podcast now out

Our popular quarterly newsletter IUMI Eye is now available as a podcast and features interviews with some authors. Highlights of this edition include Frédéric Denèfle, IUMI President & Managing Director at Garex, who discusses the challenges around reinsurance cover and the correlation with the Ukraine War. IUMI Secretary General Lars Lange reports on the latest IMO’s Marine Environment Protection and Maritime Safety Committee sessions; Sean Dalton, Vice-Chair of the IUMI Executive Committee & Executive Vice President, Head of Marine Underwriting, North America for Munich Reinsurance America, discusses the challenges marine insurers are facing in a time of increased inflation. Guillermo Zamora, CEO of Marlin Blue and an IUMI Professional Partner, offers guidance for adequately implementing and applying IMO liability and compensation conventions.

The Poseidon Principles for Marine Insurance (PPMI): “What, how, why”

The Poseidon Principles for Marine Insurance (PPMI) are a global framework for assessing climate alignments of insurers’ hull and machinery portfolios. The PPMI use the ambitions of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) greenhouse gas emissions strategy and the Paris Agreement as benchmarks. The first annual disclosure report of the PPMI signatory companies has just been published. 

 

In this episode of the IUMI podcast we spoke with Pauline des Vallières, Sustainable Insurance Manager at SCOR where she has been part of the Marine division during the last five years. Pauline explains what the PPMI are, how they work, and why marine insurance companies have signed up to publicly disclose the carbon footprint of their H&M portfolios.

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