According to recent statistical information, the number of self-heating indicents arising while loading coal from ports in Kalimantan Province, Indonesia appears to have fallen. Consequently Members are no longer required to appoint a surveyor at the load port.

The Club has recently been advised by consulting scientists and engineers Dr. J H burgoyne and Partners (International) Limited that the number of indicents involving the self-heating of coal cargoes loaded in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) is increasing.

The current EU and US Iran sanctions consist of a patchwork of legislative instruments. This patchwork nature makes it difficult to apply the laws to the carriage of a particular cargo.

The imminent entry into force of the MLC has brought the Convention and its requirements on shipowners into focus and in particular the financial security requirements established in the Convention.