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Lasting legacy of the human touch
Wednesday 14 May 2008 IT WAS the funeral of John Strube last Friday. I was unable to go but I did take some time to think of him and his influence. He was of quite a different generation. More » |
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Will we ever lose our appetite for going the extra food mile?
Wednesday 16 April 2008- Sam Ignarski TIME was when the complicated schedules of shipping and transport serving world trade were known only to the initiated — people like the readers of this very publication and the workaday folk, high and low, who keep the wheels of international trade turning year in and year out. More » |
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Meeting tomorrow’s bigger, scarier insurance risks
Thursday 20 March 2008- Sam Ignarski IF YOU are the chief executive of an organisation that is about to move its people into a large handsome new edifice in Lime Street, at the very centre of the heart of the historic London insurance market, what do you want from the world? More » |
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Image is an issue for today’s eye-catching casualty
Wednesday 20 February 2008- Sam Ignarski THE tenor of the times for marine insurers is not particularly upbeat. At the International Union of Marine Insurance last autumn we learned that, based on the large losses in the first eight months, the 2006 year of account will likely end up being the worst for hull underwriters since 1999–2000 and the prospects for 2007 do not look promising. More » |
