Chans Advice 159 – Forklift truck’s 3rd party insurance?
Does the law require forklift trucks to have the third party insurance of motor vehicles? The Hong Kong High Court’s Judgment dated 2/5/1996 explained the legal principles to answer this…
Chans Advice 158 – Yacht sinking – security for costs
The Hong Kong High Court issued a Judgment on 11/12/2013 holding that a Hong Kong plaintiff needed to put up a security for costs in a court case concerning a…
Chans Advice 148 – Why Chans Advice, What Chans Advice, and the SMIC New Website
More than 10 years ago, we broke new grounds unheard of before among insurance brokers by introducing genuine claim support (by truly employing a team of professional transport claim handlers)…
Chans Advice 131 – Forwarders’ Standard Trading Conditions Seminar | 9 November 2011 – Q & A
The 10th annual SMIC seminar on Forwarders’ Standard Trading Conditions wrapped a decade of unabated effort hammering for the freight industry’s attention to loss prevention by proper freight documents. The…
Chans Advice 14 – As agent for the Carrier?
More and more junior staff of the banks insist all the Bills of Lading to be signed and issued with the above remark “As agent for the Carrier”. This is…
Chans Advice 7 – Liability Insurance Revisited
The relative risk distribution of a typical transport operator is represented by the chart below:-