The Insurer

Insurers are telling their clients that they need a pricing correction, in other words dearer rates, at the very time that businesses such as port operators are under huge financial pressure. So…

Lloyds is known for insuring the high profile risks - commercial property, the impact of hurricanes and other disasters, terrorism, and piracy, to name a few - as well as esoteric assets…

Executives at ports in the Asia/Pacific region will shortly beturning their attention to an annual financial exercise which should beconsiderably more straightforward than the complexities occasioned bythe downturn in trade volumes.

So much upheaval is rocking the world economy that ports executivesare well advised to train their eyes on the insurance sector as well ason the financial and maritime news.

There are a lot of them about - insurance carriers for the ports andterminals industry. New entrants continue to plunge into the fray, allof them with powerful sales messages based on the…

By now, the best run ports and terminals in the world will know who theyare. They have been courted with, and in, endearing terms by underwriters whocast longing eyes at the facilities…