The Insurer

How safe is your insurance cover amid the draining of trillions ofdollars from world financial markets, and downgrades for some keyplayers? It seems that the operators of ports and terminals may besomewhat…

Winning and losing are words that are best avoided in the nuanced world of ports and terminals insurance.

A particularly tricky operation at a port - we had better withhold its identity - was beginning to get a reputation as akin to a ride on the wall of death. Drivers…

So you want to be a ship-to-ship stevedore? Where do you start? What do you need for kit? Any suggestions on risk management?

As we head into the insurance renewal season, it is easier to spot the areas where market players have decided on pushing out a new boat or two. For some reason, the…

Very recent news from North Korea leads this correspondent to suppose that very soon the countrys shipping industry will come under further scrutiny and restrictions. To some extent the precedents have already…

Between now and 2010, the container world will be largely augmented by massive ships according to the analyst Drewry. Between now and the end of this decade there are two ships on…

Since last reporting, your columnist has been to Colombo, to take part in a Conference organized by Ceylon Association of Ship Agents (CASA) and to hear the news of this island which…

This is the time of year when many insurers report their results. The TT Club, which nowadays can be considered as the market leading specialist insurer for the ports and terminals sector,…

The question of commissions in insurance is sensitive, in relation to the amounts which are paid to brokers. Insurance brokers for ports and terminals are specialists. They can earn as much as…

At first P& O Ports was hardly a group of ports at all, more a higeldy-pigeldy collection of Australian and English Channel terminal operations acquired over the years during the early phases…

The case of the quarantine station in Essex which took delivery of shipments of birds from Taiwan and Surinam recently, allegedly infected with Avian Flu, has been well reported in the UK…

The Atlantic storm season this year has been very disheartening for port insurers. In a competitive market they have quoted keen rates, taken on exposed realty and equipment and laid off diligently…