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31/07/2001

Bogus Chief Officer

The chief engineer of a ship was airlifted to a hospital in the Arabian Gulf suffering from appendicitis. The ship manager had to replace him before the ship could sail. A chief engineer with impeccable references and...

31/07/2001

Fraud by NVOC

A ship agent in the Middle East released 31 containers against receipt of NVOC bills of lading after receiving a telex from the loadport agent informing him that freight had been collected and the Line's bills of lading were in...

31/07/2001

Freight paid to wrong party

For a number of months a ship broker made hire payments under a time charter directly to the owner, although the broker had previously dealt with the ship's manager. When the broker received an instruction from the manager to pay...

31/07/2001

Forged bank telexes

A ship agent who threatened to detain a ship because the owner had not remitted disbursements, allowed the ship to sail when he received a telex confirmation from a well known UK bank that the disbursements had been remitted. The...

31/07/2001

Bogus crew

An Irish ship agent was asked by a crewing agent to look after the transfer of 8 crew from Dublin to London, where they would join a ship. This unusual request aroused the agent's suspicions and he contacted ITIC. Investigations...

31/07/2001

Indemnities which were not

An African ship agent released four containers without production of original bills of lading in exchange for four letters of indemnity apparently counter-signed by a local bank. Subsequent checks with the bank in question...

31/07/2001

Counterfeit batteries

A UK ship agent inadvertently delivered a container of brand name batteries without taking the original bill of lading in exchange. After two weeks of constant pressure from the ship agent to provide the original bill of lading,...

31/07/2001

Fraudulent bills of lading

A Scandinavian ship agent was requested by a ship owner to issue bills of lading for a cargo of new steel coils of Turkish origin which were loaded in Turkey in November 1987. The cargo was in fact rusted straight bars of...

31/07/2001

Forged valuations

A ship broker received a telephone call from his usual contact at a Far Eastern bank, expressing surprise at the high level of values the ship broker had placed on two ships. The broker asked for a copy of the valuations, which...

31/07/2001

...and finally

A sale and purchase broker had acted for the Scandinavian sellers of a small cruise ship. An Australian company had signed a Memorandum of Agreement but had failed to pay the deposit or take any other steps to complete the...

Claims Review

Bogus Chief Officer

Fraud by NVOC

Freight paid to wrong party

Forged bank telexes

Bogus crew

Indemnities which were not

Counterfeit batteries

Fraudulent bills of lading

Forged valuations

...and finally

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