by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 15, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Firing on a merchant vessel will ratchet up already acute concerns among shipowners, insurers and commodity traders about the potential dangers of getting ensnared in the Black Sea – the main route that both Ukraine and Russia use to get their agricultural produce to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 9, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Insurance for ships heading to Russia’s Black Sea ports currently costs tens of thousands of dollars in additional premiums daily, the three sources said, with rates ticking higher following Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s other waterways through the Danube in recent...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 5, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Ukraine will insure ships that import and exports goods through the Danube and is considering the possibility of providing cover for ships going through the “grain corridor,” news agency Interfax-Ukraine reported on Thursday, citing Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 2, 2023 | International News, Non-Life
Lessors are suing dozens of insurers around the world for billions of dollars after more than 400 planes were unable to leave Russia due to Western sanctions in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that forced the termination of their leases Some of the world’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 25, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Since the collapse of the grain corridor deal and the increased targeting of ports and infrastructure by Russia, war risk underwriters were “forming their own independent views and deciding what is it is they are prepared to underwrite,” David Smith, head of hull and...
