Marine

Freight's green switch is creating a claims gap for brokers

Freight's green switch is creating a claims gap for brokers

EV lorries cost up to 25% more to repair - and the maritime fuel question has no answer yet

Mark Rosanes Aug 25, 2026
Panama Canal cuts traffic over El Niño, and it might not be the last chokepoint to break

Panama Canal cuts traffic over El Niño, and it might not be the last chokepoint to break

Marsh's Cameron Berrington says a single delayed vessel at the Panama Canal can leave cargo owners paying for capacity that never gets used

The Arctic is opening as a shipping route - and the insurance industry isn't ready

The Arctic is opening as a shipping route - and the insurance industry isn't ready

A senior marine underwriter says the Northwest Passage is becoming navigable just as global trade routes face their most volatile period in decades - and a spill or grounding up there may be impossible to clean up or recover from

A sanctioned Russian insurer has quietly emerged behind the salvage of the tanker rotting off Oman

A sanctioned Russian insurer has quietly emerged behind the salvage of the tanker rotting off Oman

AlfaStrakhovanie's involvement in the Caroline Bezengi response reportedly required a sanctions waiver before salvors could even start work

Marine insurance is racing to the bottom, and nobody's stopping it, source says

Marine insurance is racing to the bottom, and nobody's stopping it, source says

A senior marine underwriter says the mismatch between flooding capacity and vanishing talent is driving a rush to the bottom

A sanctioned tanker is rotting off Oman's coast, and no insurer has stepped up to pay for it

A sanctioned tanker is rotting off Oman's coast, and no insurer has stepped up to pay for it

The vessel's owners have gone quiet, no insurer has funded a cleanup, and Oman is largely covering the cost itself

Third Hormuz incident in 48 hours puts underwriters back on alert

Third Hormuz incident in 48 hours puts underwriters back on alert

News comes as claims threat to crude flows now at the worst point of the entire crisis so far

Marsh's Baker warns of "broken feedback loop" in Red Sea and Gulf shipping cover

Marsh's Baker warns of "broken feedback loop" in Red Sea and Gulf shipping cover

Gallagher link to attacked Saudi tanker underscores the caution

The maritime cover gap brokers can't ignore

The maritime cover gap brokers can't ignore

A record officer shortage is forcing insurers to cover seafarers long after they step off the gangway

IB TALK

Tariffs, resilience, and housing demand are the forces reshaping construction risk

Navacord's Robert Beeston breaks down how these pressures are colliding to change how construction risk gets priced and placed

How trucking risk is evolving in Canada – from cargo theft to driver training to broker liability

NFP's Randy Ramkissoon says one GPS tracker isn't enough anymore – thieves know where to look, and the claims are getting more severe

Canadian businesses know their nat cat exposure – they just don't know what it means

BFL Canada's Hector Plascencia says the gap between identifying a risk and actually understanding its business impact is where most organizations fall short

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