Beware gold-plated rustbuckets
As excess capacity collides with astronomical second-hand values, rising frequency and severity of losses, Eric Alexander reports on choppy seas for the hull market
The 2006 shipping statistics, released earlier this year by the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI), held only a glimmer of good news for the hull (re)insurance community. That came in the
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