Marine Cargo insurance Archive

  • Boat insurance – Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans

    Boat insurance – Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans

    A Brief History of Insurance: Part 2 by Kris Oldland A brief history of Boat Insurance: Part Two: Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans: OK, so in the first article in this series we discovered that whilst those amazing Chinese chaps were out inventing...

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  • Marine Insurance Counts the Cost of Increased Attacks by Pirates!

    Marine Insurance Counts the Cost of Increased Attacks by Pirates!

    Unbelievably Marine Piracy continued to grow in 2009, which should be a sobering thought for all us sea dogs who like to roam the seven seas. The ICC International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC) has just released it’s 2009 annual report and it...

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  • Freight Forwarder Insurance – Cruel twist of freight as FSA pulls back.

    Freight Forwarder Insurance – Cruel twist of freight as FSA pulls back.

    After four long years the British International Freight Association (BIFA) has succeeded in its campaign to see freight forwarders once again given the ability to provide insurance to their customers.Treasury officials confirmed this month that the Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD) Exemption is now in effect...

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  • Risk Management – Transport Sector heading in the right direction?

    Risk Management – Transport Sector heading in the right direction?

    Transport Sector heading in the right direction? By Insurance Blogger Kris Oldfield Call it a credit crunch, an economic downturn or just a plain old recession the current financial situation is impacting in some form or another upon just about every single one of us...

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  • Transport, Marine Insurance and Marine Cargo Insurance

    Transport, Marine Insurance and Marine Cargo Insurance

    Transport, Marine Insurance and Marine Cargo Insurance – The Oldest ProfessionBy Insurance Blogger Paul Magus Insurance brokers were already an established feature of the London Commercial and Finance scene by the time of Queen Anne. At the beginning of the Eighteenth Century Stuart and Hanoverian...

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  • Boat Insurance – Hurricane Season is upon us

    Boat Insurance – Hurricane Season is upon us

    For those of us who own a yacht or ship sailing in caribbbean waters , you won’t need reminding that the annual waves of hurricanes and tropical storms that blast across the Atlantic into the gulf of Mexico is fast approaching! But what precautions are...

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  • Piracy Insurance – Walking the Plank!

    Piracy Insurance – Walking the Plank!

    Pirate Attacks on Merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden have been dominating the headlines over the last few weeks. There were more than 50 reported attacks off the coast of Somalia in the first eight months of 2008, with 32 vessels hijacked. It seems...

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