ABL November Maritime Market Briefing
Join us for ABL’s November Maritime Market Briefing, exploring the following topic:
Sustainable Ship Repairs: How Insurance Can Drive Sustainability
Introduction to the topic
Marine insurance does not simply fund the repair of damaged vessels; through claims scope, repair specifications, parts approval, and settlement practice, it influences repairs’ steel demand, component manufacturing, waste generation, transport, and yard energy use.
This presentation explores how H&M underwriters, claims handlers, brokers, and surveyors can make repair decisions that retain value, reduce environmental impact, and support better commercial outcomes.
The session explores what sustainable repairs could mean and the framework that is more suitable to define them. It examines practical sustainable repair practices, including repair over replacement, easy-to-repair equipment, certified remanufactured components, recycled-content materials, and green refits. The session also considers regional differences in yard maturity, and the data gaps that currently prevent the industry from measuring the full carbon and material footprint of marine repairs.
We will conclude with a practical action agenda for insurers and surveyors: how to assess sustainable repair options during claims, and ways to reward lower-impact, higher-value repairs. It positions the claim event as a strategic opportunity to reduce embodied carbon and waste while improving cost control, downtime, client service, and underwriting insight.
The technical presentation will be followed by a Q&A and finalised with a summary of last month’s high-cost marine casualties.
When: Thursday 12th November, 9:30 AM UK time
Where:
- In-person: Lloyd’s Old Library, 1 Lime Street, EC3M 7HA, London. Arrivals from 9:00 AM for coffee, tea, biscuits and networking.
- Virtual: Zoom Webinar from 9:30 AM
Learning objectives:
By the end of the presentation, you will be able to:
- Appreciate how marine insurance influences the environmental footprint of ship repairs, based on available data.
- Understand the circular-economy butterfly diagram and apply it to ship-repair decisions
- Evaluate practical sustainable repair options
- Identify practical actions for insurers, brokers, and survey companies and a way forward to be an industry sustainability driver
Meet our speakers:
Oliver Tattersall
Naval Architect, ABL
Case Reports Presenter
CPD Accreditation
This is a CPD-accredited event by the Chartered Insurance Institute. Attendance is worth up to 1 CPD hour in person and up to 30 CPD minutes online.
ABL offers extensive experience in all shipping and maritime-related matters including marine casualties, salvage and wreck removal, hull and machinery, P&I claims, fixed object damage, pollution, personal injury, and ports and harbours, marine accident investigation amongst other areas. Our reputation covers work in ports & harbours, small craft, global shipping, defence and yachts.