Claims for damage to ships, cranes and containers are taxing the marine insurance industry, but the increasing size of containerships is their biggest worry.
Chemical cargoes that blow the hatchcovers off a ship, containerships that break in half at sea due to defective welds, shore cranes which topple over on ships, bottoms that fall out of overweight containers and chartered ships put out of service by defective engines....
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