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Results impacted by a few severe claims and IT write-off.

In 2017, Gard signed the world’s first insurance industry statement on sustainable marine insurance. Through this statement, we are committed to tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing through education, awareness building, risk management and insurance underwriting.

Gard is looking for a Manager to lead our Management Reporting team. The right candidate has both strong leadership skills and the ability to work with the whole organization to ensure strong development and use of Business intelligence in Gard. You will play an important role to help Gard in securing its market leading position in the marine insurance industry.

“The Claes Isacson Scholarship is the most prestigious international scholarship for aspiring maritime lawyers and policy-makers”, says Robert Michael Veal, last year’s winner of the Claes Isacson Scholarship. Here is how it helped him in his research.

Gard announced today that Shuichi Yoshida has been appointed as a Senior Adviser in the underwriting team in Tokyo, bringing with him more than 30 years’ experience in the Japanese marine insurance market.

The International Group of P&I Clubs has updated their guidance document produced to assist Members and the Club in complying with requirements set out in the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC). 

Gard is looking for a Security Advisor for our Security team in Technology and Business Transformation. You will be responsible for guiding and supporting the application of cyber security practices within the organization, ensuring that our services reflect and comply with corporate standards and securely support the different functions, business units and environments.

The office of Gard (North America) Inc. will be temporarily closed due to a fire in the building over the weekend. 

The scholarship for maritime education was launched in 2013 to honour the memory of Gard’s former CEO and his contribution to Gard. The aim of the scholarship is to help young people finance an education at university level with a view to finding work within the shipping and marine insurance sectors after completion of their studies.

The Asian Gypsy Moth (AGM) is a destructive forest pest known to spread via ocean-going vessels in international trade. Vessels calling at certain ports in the Asia Pacific between May and September should therefore be inspected and “certified free of AGM” prior to departure, this to minimise the potential for regulatory action when arriving in a country where the pest is not native.

We are looking for an energetic developer to be part of our Integration team in the Digital Service department based in Arendal, Norway.

As a global organisation our offices around the world are central to our ability to help our members and clients manage risk and its consequences in their day to day operations. To be able to do so, we focus on the fundamentals and ensure that we have the resources and expertise available to service shipowners’ and operators’ needs.  As part of our long standing commitment to the Japanese shipping and maritime community, we have strengthened our organisation and network in Japan.

20 February 2019 - With the closing of the 2019 P&I renewal on 20 February, Gard today announced that its net tonnage had increased by over 7 million in the last 12 months, with total owners’ mutual now in excess of 214 million GT. 99% of existing tonnage stayed with Gard. 

Gard has appointed a number of new correspondents with effect from 20 February 2019.  

As we finish another busy year, I would like to start by stepping back to look at what Gard is here to do. Over the last 18 months we have been working with our entire organisation – including our colleagues, Members and the various boards, to think about our strategy towards 2025. This might seem a way off but if each year goes as fast as this one, it will soon be here! 

Our focus on sustainability and a sustainable maritime development in particular, has led to Gard joining Klimapartnere (Climate Partners), Norway’s largest private-public partnership network focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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The first half of the 2018 financial year has seen strong performance across the group.

Our office in London has moved to new premises.

From the 2019 renewal, we will begin to phase out the distribution of paper copies of the Gard Rules.