The Swedish Club marked the 25th anniversary of its Marine Insurance Course this week, a milestone that the insurer and its supporters say underlines the programme's long-standing role in vocational education for the maritime insurance sector.
Across a quarter of a century the course has attracted a steady flow of industry participants, with organisers reporting that more than 1,000 maritime professionals have taken part since its inception; the programme aims to strengthen technical understanding of marine insurance and to provide a forum for the exchange of practical experience.
This year's session, held in Gothenburg, brought together 38 delegates drawn from 25 separate companies and 10 countries, reflecting the course's continuing international reach and its appeal to insurers, brokers and shipping professionals seeking concentrated, practitioner-led tuition.
Sources indicated the anniversary on 21 September 2026, noting both the numerical milestone and the profile of this year's cohort. The report highlighted the course's objective of combining classroom instruction with discussion of real-world claims and commercial practice.
A sustained training platform
The Marine Insurance Course, known within the trade by its acronym MIC, has been presented as a sustained training platform for those tasked with underwriting, claims handling and risk management in the marine field. Over 25 years the curriculum has been adapted to reflect changes in the market while retaining a focus on practical application.
Attendance figures cited for the current year illustrate the course's modest size and concentrated format; a cohort of 38 participants allows for detailed case study work and active group discussion, which organisers consider central to the programme's value to practitioners.
International participation and industry networks
Delegates at the recent event represented 10 countries and 25 companies, a composition that organisers and attendees say encourages cross-border dialogue on shared challenges in shipping, insurance and claims handling. The course has been presented as a place where professional networks are formed and sustained.
Those involved over the years have included underwriters, claims specialists and other maritime professionals whose combined participation now exceeds 1,000, a figure cited to emphasise the programme's cumulative reach rather than annual scale.
Organisers mark the silver anniversary as recognition of the course's longevity and continued relevance to a market that relies on both technical knowledge and practical judgment. The event in Gothenburg this year served as this milestone's focal point, bringing together a compact, international group for concentrated study and discussion.
The Swedish Club's quarter-century record with the MIC forms part of a broader pattern of professional education within the maritime insurance community, in which short, intensive courses are used to update skills and test learning against current industry practice. The organisers' published details of attendance and reach were reported on 21 September 2026 as the club marked the anniversary.