The Insurer

Eyes are looking north to a vast region of lucrative international trade promise – a region served rudimentarily for the most part by seaports. The superpowers are becoming ever keener to assert…

RaetsMarine talks to James Brewer following the companys takeover by Lloyds group Amlin

It will take a long time for the tailwinds of post-tropical cyclone (that is what it was, not a hurricane) Sandy to die down.

We never expected the Hudson River to come up this far... That has been the lament of hundreds of residents and business owners on the east coast of the US, struck by…

A nightmare scenario came true for port operators and insurers alike four years ago, in the form of a major accident in the UK involving both merchandised and land-based cranes.

How fares the London marine insurance market? Generally as active and influential as ever, it seems, although it is not as ‘London’ as it used to be.

“Reaching the world from northeast China: Port of Dandong,” booms a voice from the television in my hotel room in Shanghai, where I have arrived to spend time with people from the…

The earth is certainly moving under the insurance market, as a result of the natural catastrophes of the past year and a half, and the port industry will suffer as a result.

As one of the fastest growing economies, Brazil is doing its best to improve its ports and road infrastructure to cope with huge shipment volumes. Insurance carriers regionally and globally meanwhile have…

‘Claims’ is very much the name of the insurance game right now. With record insured losses in 2011, underwriting companies are upgrading the sometimes elderly software that is supposed to aid sound…

The January 2012 renewals have shown that once again, liability cover remains the main battlefield for the insurance custom of ports and terminals, but a Costa Concordia cloud hangs over future renewals.

Heightened activity in the Russian insurance market is set to have repercussions for the international ports and terminals sector.

Any senior manager who feels satisfied with the risk management system in his or her port almost certainly needs to think again - big is on the agenda and ports need to…

Signs of repositioning are emerging in the insurance market after a largely uneventful spell.

With a torrent of claims hitting the insurance market after natural disasters in the first quarter of 2011 – the Christchurch earthquake, floods and cyclone in Queensland, and Japan’s tragedies – it…

Shipowners, traders and technologists have taken the lead in catapulting that centuries-old document, the bill of lading, into the electronic age.