PEMA

3^rd August, 2009 - The TT Clubs latest publication, a revised edition of its comprehensive risk mitigation guide for windstorms, offers valuable information and advice on how to minimise storm damage to marine and inland terminal installations and cargoes.

This second edition has been developed and published jointly with ICHCA International. Among other issues, the guide looks at specific items of terminal equipment and the risks that storms pose to them, and offers practical advice on steps that can be taken to best secure equipment against storm damage.

This year has already seen several serious storms in the Pacific and western Australia, and areas including Idaho, USA and the coast of Mexico have been battered by wind storms and hurricanes, causing substantial damage. The TT Club guide, entitled WindStorm II provides terminal operators with detailed advice on how to protect infrastructure and equipment from windstorm damage, as well as how to recover afterwards.

With storm damage accounting for some of the biggest losses in the industry, the Club is committed to assisting operators in managing risk and to help prevent loss, comments TT Clubs Risk Management Director, Peregrine Storrs-Fox. In this guide, we have brought together the shared knowledge and experience of operators and experts in managing storm damage, and have particularly valued the collaboration with the International Safety Panel of ICHCA International. We believe that the result provides a practical loss-prevention plan which benefits the marine and inland terminal industry and demonstrates both the ethos and the advantages of being a mutual insurer.

The guide is supplemented by extensive annexes, including detailed information on the different wind scales in use around the world, information sources and a storm miscellany. There are also practical checklists for routine operations, recovery after a storm event and emergency planning.

The guide comes both in printed form, and in a web-based version, the latter providing links to more detailed information. It will be distributed free to Members of the TT Club, and can be purchased by non-members at 36 through the TT Club website www.ttclub.com.

Note to PEMA members: TT Club has kindly made the guide available at no charge to PEMA members The file can be found under Research Documents inthe secure Members Area of the website.