ABL February Market Briefing
Join us for the February ABL Maritime Market Briefing, exploring the following topic:
Specialty Ships – Cable Ships
ABL’s Marine Surveyor, Rob Murdoch, will present our February briefing on ‘Specialty Ships – Cable Ships’, providing a brief history of subsea cables and the ships that install and maintain them. You’ll also learn about the differences in specialty ships and the equipment they require to carry out the laying and repairs of subsea fibre optic cables.
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 February, 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
Learning objectives:
- You will have a brief understanding of the history of submarine telegraph and telecoms cables.
- You will be able to explain the main structural differences with cable ships.
- You will be able to understand cable laying machinery installed on cable ships.
- You will be able to understand modular cable machinery, ROV’s and Ploughs.
Meet our speaker:
Rob Murdoch
Marine Surveyor – Marine Engineer, ABL
Technical Presenter
CPD Accreditation
This is a CPD-accredited event by the Chartered Insurance Institute. Attendance in-person or online is worth up to 1 CPD hour.
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.