Service Provider
to the maritime Industry since 1850

All news

22/03/2019
Tunisia: Protests Prevent Pet Coke Discharge in Gabès

A sit in which started at the port of Gabès on Tuesday, 19 March 2019, has effectively prevented any vessels from discharging the pet coke which fuels local cement works.
18/03/2019
Algeria: Strikes Perturb Courts

In the aftermath of another Friday of demonstrations in Algeria protesting against the continuing presidency of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Budd’s Algiers office reports that to date, there have been no major effects on the country’s ports.
08/03/2019
Indonesian Insurance Mandatory for Some Cargoes

Following a series of postponements in 2018 (see our web news of 15/02/18, 09/04/18 and 03/08/18), the Indonesian govern...
04/03/2019
Tunisia : Gabes Port Resumes Commerical Activity

Budd Tunisia is pleased to advise that the blockade preventing vessels from entering or leaving the port of Gabes ended at 21:00 LT yesterday (3 March 2019).
03/03/2019
Tunisia: Fishing Boats Block Gabes

Vessels are being prevented from entering the port of Gabes by a blockade of fishing boats.
26/02/2019
Abidjan: Improved Vridi Canal Opens

First built in 1950 to provide deepwater access from the Atlantic Ocean to the port of Abidjan on the Ebrié Lagoon, the ...
22/02/2019
Senegal: Electronic CTN’s Mandatory from 1 March 2019

Budd’s Dakar office has provided us with the a circular received from the Senegalese Council of Shippers and advising th...
21/02/2019
Senegal: Presidential Elections 24 February 2019

The first round of Senegal’s presidential elections will take place on Sunday, 24 February 2019.
04/02/2019
Algeria: Ports Reopen

Budd’s Algeria office reports that lulls in the bad weather recently experienced along the Algerian coast are now enabli...
30/01/2019
Algeria: Bad Weather Closes Ports

Bad weather along the Algerian coast has closed most of the country’s ports to traffic, including Arzew, Oran, Mostaganem, Skikda and Tenes.
22/01/2019
DR Congo: Internet Re-connected

Following official publication of the DR Congo’s presidential election results, Budd’s Kinshasa and Matadi offices have confirmed to us that internet and social media began to work again yesterday (21 January 2019).
21/01/2019
China taking steps to implement the Ballast Water Convention

China joined the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Conv...
14/01/2019
Casablanca's Port Development Plan

Budd's Casablanca office shares details of the major development plans which were published in the moroccan website "Leconomiste".
07/01/2019
Gabon: Ports Secure

Budd Gabon advised earlier today that, despite the attempted military coup which started in the night of 6 to 7 January ...
07/01/2019
DR Congo: Election Results Delayed

As reported in the press, votes are still being counted in the DR Congo’s presidential election and therefore the results were not published this weekend as originally announced (see our website alert of 2 January 2018).

Portfolio

All events

As Correspondents to
the world’s leading
Marine Insurers

including the International Group of P&I Clubs, the BUDD Group’s numerous offices in France, Africa, China and Vietnam provide a very extensive range of P&I, H&M, FDD, protecting, emergency, legal and surveying services to maritime professionals. (See “Our Offices” for full details)

Surveying Services

One of our first tasks is to appoint surveyors through any one of our offices worldwide - be it to ascertain the extent and cause of cargo or hull damage, investigate alleged pollution, survey/tally during cargo loading or unloading operations or provide P&I, H&M, On/Off hire Condition survey reports... [Read more]

Follow our blog at www.budd-pni-blog.com for the latest information from our offices in ports around the world.

BUDD S.A.
7, rue Bailli de Suffren - 13001 Marseilles / France
Tel +33 (0)4 91 33 58 33 - Fax +33 (0)4 91 33 13 31 - Email

Download expertise document

Follow @BUDDGroup

Service Provider to the maritime Industry since 1850

Tunisia: Protests Prevent Pet Coke Discharge in Gabès

Algeria: Strikes Perturb Courts

Indonesian Insurance Mandatory for Some Cargoes

Tunisia : Gabes Port Resumes Commerical Activity

Tunisia: Fishing Boats Block Gabes

Abidjan: Improved Vridi Canal Opens

Senegal: Electronic CTN’s Mandatory from 1 March 2019

Senegal: Presidential Elections 24 February 2019

Algeria: Ports Reopen

Algeria: Bad Weather Closes Ports

DR Congo: Internet Re-connected

China taking steps to implement the Ballast Water Convention

Casablanca's Port Development Plan

Gabon: Ports Secure

DR Congo: Election Results Delayed

Cyclone Idai: Cholera cases reported in storm-hit Mozambique

Ghana bus crash: Dozens killed after two buses collide in Bono East

Cyclone Idai: What are the immediate dangers?

Cyclone Idai: Zimbabwe's desperate search for the missing

Kenyans angry over Turkana drought response

Gael Bigirimana: Hibs and Burundi midfielder on how he talked his way into football

Cyclone Idai: Flying over flooded Mozambique

Homeless chess champion from Nigeria 'gets apartment' after crowdfund

Currency artist Ezeanyika Anthony Chibuzor on his life in London

Africa Cup of Nations: Angola qualify ahead of Burkina Faso

Banned Togo referee denies agreeing to to manipulate match

Kelechi Iheanacho: Nigeria coach questions striker's commitment

John Mikel Obi: I thought I would find out kidnappers had shot my father

Fifa bans Togo referee Kokou Hougnimon Fagla for life

Fergal Keane: Flying over Mozambique's submerged farmland

Pumza Fihlani meets cyclone survivors still waiting for help

Ahmed Rouaba: Beating the president not enough for young Algerians

'I was told painting is for lazy people': Cameroon's Ajarb Bernard Ategwa

The bakeries of Bamako in Mali

The blind climbers of Kilimanjaro

The artist giving leaders a bad hair day

In Pictures: Pain and ecstasy at the Lagos marathon

No traffic in Addis Ababa as Ethiopia marks Car Free Day

The African churches of London

The horsemen making a living on Lagos beach Nigeria

Waihiga Mwaura: Are Kenyans still scandalised by scandals?

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: Nigeria's farmer king

Brian Hungwe: Should MPs be sent back to school?

Elizabeth Ohene: The country where everyone is expected to be late

Cyclone Idai: 'We saw 200 bodies by the roadside'

Cyclone Idai: How the storm tore into southern Africa

Africa's week in pictures: 15-21 March 2019

Chinese imports 'driving fishermen to despair'

Cyclone Idai: The hotel manager providing a safe haven in Zimbabwe

Cyclone Idai devastation in pictures

'I was arrested and shamed for leaked nudes': Ugandan model Judith Heard

Prince Gyasi: Instagram photographer on capturing Accra life

The village in Ghana where childbirth is banned

Portfolio

As Correspondents to the world’s leading Marine Insurers

Surveying Services

Follow our blog at www.budd-pni-blog.com for the latest information from our offices in ports around the world.

Service Provider
to the maritime Industry since 1850

As Correspondents to
the world’s leading
Marine Insurers