Oil Spills and Near Misses: Growing Numbers of Ghost Tankers Ship Sanctioned Fuel March 23, 2023 By Jonathan Saul An oil tanker runs aground off eastern China, leaking fuel into the water. Another is caught in a collision near...
Insurers to Pay Bangladesh Shipping Corp. $22.48M for Vessel Hit by Missile in Ukraine March 1, 2023 By Ruma Paul and Jonathan Saul Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp. (BSC) $22.48 million for its vessel that was hit by a...
Insurers Face $500M in Claims for Ships Stuck in Ukraine – a Year After Start of War February 24, 2023 By Jonathan Saul Insurers are facing half a billion dollars in claims for up to 60 commercial ships still stuck in Ukraine a...
Major Aviation Insurer AXA Pulls Back on War Coverage After Ukraine Losses: Reuters January 19, 2023 By Carolyn Cohn, Jonathan Saul and Noor Zainab Hussain The commercial arm of French insurer AXA is reducing cover offered to aviation companies as it seeks to protect the...
Black Sea Shipping Costs Rise on Higher War Risk Insurance, Reinsurer Exclusions January 6, 2023 By Jonathan Saul Costs for hiring ships to transport commodities from the Black Sea have risen by more than a fifth since the...
Ship Insurers to Cancel War Risk Cover for Russia, Ukraine Following Reinsurer Exit December 28, 2022 By Carolyn Cohn and Jonathan Saul Ship insurers said they are canceling war risk cover across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, following an exit from the region...
Russia Oil Sanctions Fuel Boom for Old Tankers December 6, 2022 By Julia Payne and Jonathan Saul The market for old oil tankers is booming, and it’s all down to efforts by Western nations to curb trade...
Insurers Stop Offering Cargo Insurance for Ukraine Grains Shipments: Sources November 2, 2022 By Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn Insurers are no longer offering new cargo insurance cover for shipments out of Ukraine through a U.N.-backed safe corridor after...
Re/Insurers Grapple With How to Respond to Claims From Nord Stream Pipeline Blasts October 25, 2022 By Jonathan Saul and Carolyn Cohn With the mystery of the blasts that destroyed undersea gas pipelines between Russia and Germany unsolved, Nord Stream 1’s insurers...
Russia Poised to Largely Circumvent G-7 Oil Price Cap, Insurance Restrictions October 21, 2022 By Noah Browning, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Jonathan Saul Russia can access enough tankers to ship most of its oil beyond the reach of a new G-7 price cap,...