Transport and logistics insurer, TT Club has urged facility owners and operators to prepare for this year’s hurricane season, which will bring 13 named storms, according to the forecast from Colorado State University. This is slightly below the 1991-2020 average of 14.4.

The forecast also predicted there will be six hurricanes, compared with a long-term average of 7.2 and two major hurricanes (category 3 or higher), which is below the long-term average of 3.2.

Neil Dalus, risk assessment manager at TT Club, said: "A below-average forecast can be dangerously misleading. History has shown us that it only takes one storm making landfall in the wrong place to cause devastating loss of life, infrastructure damage and supply chain disruption.

“The numbers may look modest this year, but complacency is not an option… the time to prepare is now.”