The Insurer

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…

All of sudden, if you are a port operator or a port authority, the international insurance market located in London has the welcome mat out for you. In addition to the TT…

Some insurance issues have arisen in connection with the risk of terrorism and the ISPS Code which give us all pause for concern. A ship under construction is clearly a marine risk…

Last week it was announced in the UK that the supermarket chain called Tesco was claiming one pound in every eight spent in the UK retail market. The effects on surrounding shops…

In the immediate aftermath of the events on 26th December last year, the maritime sector as a whole seemed to have escaped rather lightly in the tragic circumstances. Only Chennai in India…

The high rates of port expansion currently written about the ports of China during these boom years prompts people to think: why shouldnt one of the new dragons supplant North East Asias…

The Australian Waterfront is the product of three main forces, only one of which is native to the Lucky Country. First and foremost is the influence of the thin band of settlement…

One thing which you may take from the current ports and terminals scene is that the industrial demand for new capacity in container ports is likely to come up against the NIMBYism…