Pushkar Gadam
Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
Committee secretary
The resources and links provided here aim to provide both a resource and education on what the key navigational risks are. The sub-committee will also review new and emerging risks.
The committee will make available ice maps to show the applicable approximate areas for trading warranties for the mostly widely used wordings.
Please find below links to the historic guidance on Institute Navigating Limits, issued by the Navigating Limits Sub-committee. These are currently under review and will be re-issued later this year.
Area 1 – Arctic
Area 2 – Northern Seas
Area 2b – Chukchi Sea Kivalina
Area 3 – Baltic
Area 5 – North America East
Area 9 – East Asia
Please see below the links to the most widely used meteorological website services.
Baltic Sea: Finnish Meteorological Institute – https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/ice-conditions
Canada: Canadian Gov – https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/ice-forecasts-observations/latest-conditions/products-guides/chart-descriptions.html
Greenland: Danish Meteorological Institute – https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecharts.uk.php
Norwegian and Barents Sea: Meteorological Institute – https://cryo.met.no/en/latest-ice-charts
Sea of Okhotsk: Japanese Meteorological Institute – https://www.data.jma.go.jp/kaiyou/shindan/c_1/okhotsk_anl/okhotsk_anl.html
Please see here on guidance as to how to read an ice map.
The sub-committee will keep emerging risks under review and update and populate this area in due course.
The committee helps to develop and issue LMA wordings for use across the market. To receive email notification of new wordings, please subscribe.
19 September 2011
24 August 2011