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AIG
With more than 90 years of experience, AIG’s marine industry professionals understand the needs of oceangoing and inland marine service businesses. Our multinational risk coverage includes some of the highest limits in the industry and extends across 215+ countries and jurisdictions, including locally admitted policies.
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American Club
Founded in 1917, the American Club is the only P&I mutual domiciled in the Americas. Awards like the Lloyd’s List Next Generation Shipping Award, North American Maritime Services Award, and the Seatrade & Investment in People; Award recognize its dedication to identifying as well as empowering local talent in all major shipping hubs and transforming that into valued protection for its membership throughout the world. That homegrown capacity gives the Club regional maritime know-how – available 24 hours a day – fluent in no less than eleven languages. It offers full mutual cover for P&I and FD&D risks, fixed premium insurance for smaller tonnage through Eagle Ocean Marine, as well as Hull and Machinery cover through its subsidiary, American Hellenic Hull Insurance Company Ltd. The Club also boasts an unsurpassed safety and loss prevention program. Its rich reserves of expertise enable it to typically exceed the service expectations of shipowners and charterers both large and small. Local service providing global solutions steers the Club into a new decade of service excellence.
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Axis
In a world that never stands still – where the nature of risk is constantly evolving and the needs of your customers are continually changing – AXIS turns challenges into possibilities and possibilities into opportunities. A specialty insurer and reinsurer that elevates beyond the standard solutions. We help customers pursue their ambitions and explore new pathways through tailored products and services, on a global scale.
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British Marine
Founded in 1876, British Marine has provided owners of small to medium sized vessels with service focused Hull & Machinery and Fixed P&I insurance coverage, tailored to the specialist needs of the sector. Our collaborative approach, standing along side our insured ship owners, has enabled us to resolve claims fairly and efficiently, throughout the years. We are an integral part of one of the largest international A+ rated insurance companies in the world with an annual written income of in excess of $14bn per annum.
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Cambiasso Risso Group
Founded in Genoa (Italy) in 1946, Cambiaso Risso today operates through 16 offices with more than 300 staff, of which 190 in insurance brokerage. Company concentrates in Hull insurance, Cargo and P&I, Shipping Agency, Yacht services, Sale & Purchase and Dry Charter serving their clients, most of them from Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, Germany, Far East and from other areas where shipping has a significant presence. Beyond the headquarters in Genoa (Italy) Cambiaso Risso Group covers, with dedicated offices, the most important insurance markets such as London, Bergen (Norway), Singapore, USA having direct access to the most influential international insurers.
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Guy Carpenter
Guy Carpenter delivers innovative solutions for all proportional and non-proportional treaties across the Marine & Energy sector. Our global analytical platform enables us to quantify the performance of different solutions across all classes and territories, and measure them against specific business metrics. This analytic consistency helps clients predict portfolio performance with confidence, including assessment of accumulated exposures. Account and claims management are entirely in-house: Your business never leaves our hands. Tight integration ensures that the full weight of Guy Carpenter is brought to bear should any issues arise. The practice is organized by operating regions: UK Marine, placing London Market Excess Loss (LMX) and global retro; US Marine, responsible for our U.S. clients; and International, placing business emanating from Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean and Canada. Although diverse geographically, the practice is run as one global unit.
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Howdens Broking Group
Howden combines the strength of a global insurance broker with the personal touch of a business with employee ownership at its heart. Our employees form our largest single ownership group which fosters an ownership mentality that intrinsically links our own business success to the successes we achieve for clients.
Key to delivering the best results for clients is our ability to work as a single team across our offices. Our specialty hub offices in, London, Singapore, Dubai, Luxembourg and Bermuda provide direct access to the world’s specialist markets and we can also access the resources of the world’s largest independent retail broker network in over 100 territories worldwide. This combination of international access, expertise and flexibility ensures we recognise and respond to the differing needs of every client.
We now place over $38 billion of premium annually into international insurance markets on behalf of our clients and employ 17,000 people globally operating across the insurance supply chain from capital to retail buyer, we are a major global force in retail and specialty insurance and reinsurance broking and employee benefits, the leading international MGA, and a leading risk, capital and strategic advisor.
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Lancashire Insurance Group
We are a provider of global specialty insurance and reinsurance products offering risk transfer solutions to brokers and clients.
Lancashire Insurance Group has operations in London, Bermuda and Australia and we are fully focused on establishing long-term and mutually beneficial relationships with our customers.
Our expertise and specialised products are underpinned by our agility and strong corporate culture that ensures we offer the best possible service at all times.
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Liberty Specials
Liberty Specialty Markets offers specialty and commercial insurance and reinsurance products across key UK, European, Middle East, US, Bermuda, Asia Pacific & Latin America markets. We provide brokers and insureds with a broad product range through both the Company and Lloyd’s markets and have over 2,000 employees in approximately 50 offices.
At Liberty Mutual, we believe progress happens when people feel secure. By providing protection for the unexpected and delivering it with care, we help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow.
In business since 1912, and headquartered in Boston, today we are the fifth largest global property and casualty insurer based on 2022 gross written premium. We also rank 86 on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the US based on 2022 revenue. As of December 31, 2022, we had $50 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
We employ over 50,000 people in 29 countries and economies around the world. We offer a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, specialty lines, reinsurance, commercial multiple-peril, workers compensation, commercial automobile, general liability, surety, and commercial property.
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MARSH
The global maritime and logistics industries have moved closer together in the last few years that they now form one ecosystem. Driven by merger and acquisition, integration of systems, and digitisation, the industry faces new opportunities. At the same time, this acceleration and convergence, coupled with geopolitical shifts, the COVID pandemic, customer demands and new regulation, is evolving risk in different ways. Marsh JLT Specialty’s Marine and Cargo Practice is a leading risk adviser and insurance broker to help you navigate through the risk environment. We help you differentiate your risk profile, enabling you to compete for insurer capacity, utilising international marketplaces. Given our specialist expertise backed by data and analytics, we help determine and prioritise your balance sheet retention and insurance purchase in a fluid and dynamic market. We use technology to develop innovative risk management solutions specifically for the maritime and logistics industry. Our dedicated marine claims team helps to accelerate claims payments and recoveries to maintain cash flow and improve loss record. To meet the demands of global organisations, we have an international network of 28 marine and cargo offices with 720 maritime and logistics specialists. We place approximately US$4 billion in marine, cargo, liabilities, and logistics premiums globally.
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McGill and Partners
McGill and Partners is a boutique specialist insurance and reinsurance broker focused on large clients and/or clients with complex and/or challenging needs. We believe specialty placements in today’s rapidly changing market need true expertise, deep relationships and a genuinely fresh perspective.
We are proud to be discerning – In the clients we work for, the partners we work with and the talent who drive us forward. This allows us to be truly focused so we can create bespoke, game-changing solutions.
We believe that an aligned and progressive insurance market benefits everyone. Our lack of legacy systems and seamless digital first approach means we are a broker built for today’s world..
Launched in 2019, our vision helped secure the significant financial backing of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, whose 45+ years of investing across the financial services landscape make them the ideal partner for our ambitious global plans.
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NorthStandard
NorthStandard is one of the leading providers of global marine insurance products and services across the maritime industries. Established through the merger of North P&I Club and the Standard Club in February 2023, NorthStandard brings together over 300 years of marine insurance heritage. ‘A’ rated by S&P Global, NorthStandard has a premium income around US$800M and provides cover for over 390 million GT of owned and chartered tonnage.
From headquarters in the UK and with offices throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, NorthStandard offers a unique blend of worldwide presence and class-leading expertise across multiple specialist areas, including P&I, FD&D, War Risks, Strike & Delay, Hull and Machinery and ancillary insurance. Its Sunderland Marine and Coastal & Inland divisions also provide cover for owners’ fixed premium P&I, fishing vessels, inland waterway and coastal trading vessels and aquaculture. NorthStandard’s comprehensive local market and sector knowledge is underpinned by continuous investments in market-leading digital technologies.
NorthStandard is a leading member of the International Group of P&I Clubs (IG) and is fully committed to upholding the shared objectives of its 12 independent member clubs, which provide liability cover for approximately 90% of the world’s ocean-going tonnage.
Please visit www.north-standard.com to discover more.
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SCOR
SCOR, the 5th largest reinsurer in the world, provides insurance companies with a diversified and innovative range of solutions and services to control and manage risk. Using its experience and expertise (The Art & Science of Risk), SCOR provides cutting-edge financial solutions, analytics tools and services in all areas related to risk ; in Life & Health insurance (longevity, mortality, LTC, etc.) as well as in P&C insurance (natural catastrophes, agriculture, industry, transport, engineering, etc.)
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QBE
The QBE Insurance Group is one of the world’s top insurers and reinsurers, providing cover in more than 140 countries. With hundreds of products and deep underwriting expertise, we can cover most business risks. We apply our energy and determination to finding solutions to even the most complex challenges – and we’re not afraid to try something new, even if it means going against market conventions.
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Talbot Underwriting Limited
Formed in 1990, Talbot Underwriting Limited is the managing agent of Syndicate 1183 at Lloyd’s of London. Syndicate 1183 underwrites a number of classes of business including war and terrorism, energy, marine, financial lines, cyber, transport, political risk, crisis management, kidnap & ransom, contingency, property and treaty reinsurance. Talbot is part of the AIG Group. Talbot has offices in London, Asia Pacific and the United States. The Talbot Marine team is a leading global carrier in the marine market, writing a diversified book of Marine Hull and War with associated ancillary interests, for a wide variety of vessel types and covering all aspects of Marine liabilities.
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The Swedish Club
The Swedish Club was founded by shipowners in 1872 and is today a leading mutual insurance company owned and controlled by its members. The Club writes Protection & Indemnity (P&I), Freight Demurrage & Defence (FD&D), Hull & Machinery (H&M), Hull Interests, Loss of Hire, War Risks and any additional insurance required by shipowners or charterers. It also writes Loss of Hire for Mobile Offshore Units and FPSOs. The Club currently has 140 employees. The head office is in Gothenburg, Sweden, and branch offices are in Oslo, London, Athens, Hong Kong, and Singapore. More information about the Club is available at
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Tokio Marine HCC (TMHCC)
Tokio Marine HCC (TMHCC) are insurance specialists with deep technical and analytical business expertise. Underwriting more than 100 classes of specialty insurance in over 180 countries, we have the global reach, unique insight, and financial stability to help you proceed with confidence.
We are your solution to a world that is changing at a pace not seen before. This is not traditional insurance – this is deeply technical and analytical business expertise that makes our clients’ businesses triumph over their competition. We provide support during unpredicted events, which means our clients’ businesses progress at their desired pace.
Our entire company structure has been designed to empower our teams and individuals to guide our clients’ critical decisions without bureaucracy and delay. TMHCC’s parent company – Japan-based Tokio Marine Group – underpins and champions our growth innovation and steadfast commitment to our customers, while our flat and decentralised structure means every voice speaking on behalf of the customer is heard. Our clients’ success is the priority of every employee at TMHCC.
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West of England
The West of England is a leading mutual marine insurer providing its worldwide membership of shipowners, charterers and operators with liability insurance and related services. It also safeguards and promotes its Members’ interests in many other areas of their business.
Originally formed by the Holman shipowning family in the port of Topsham in the south west of England, the Club has served shipowners for 150 years and was one of the first to insure international tonnage. Today we provide third party liability coverage to over 4,800 ships of more than 106 million GT from a worldwide membership, with a further 40 million GT of chartered tonnage
Our network of regional service centres in London, Piraeus, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York provide help and support to our Members in everything they do.
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BMC GROUP
Part of the bMC GROUP, brand MARINE CONSULTANTS is a growing, global marine consultancy.
Sincethecompany was founded in 2014,bMChas successfully completed hundreds of projects on behalf of shipowners, law firms, P&I clubs, offshore contractors, shipyards and insurance companies.
Services include Salvage & Wreck Removal Projects, Casualty management, Special Casualty Representative (SCR), Casualty Investigation, Hull & Machinery Surveys and Expert Witness work.
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Concirrus
Concirrus’ software, Quest Marine, accesses and interprets large sets of data, such as vessel statistics, movements, localised weather, and machinery information and combines this with historical claims information to reveal the behaviours that correlate to claims. Through their analytics work with leading London and Global insurers, they have proven that behavioural data is a better indicator of risk than traditional demographics. With every customer, they’ve delivered insights and new rating factors that simply did not exist before allowing increased profits, the ability to write more business with or without claims history, and reduced administration costs.
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Esenyel Partners
ESENYEL & PARTNERS counsels the world’s leading companies in every area of the law and offers a complete legal service in our core sectors of shipping, insurance, transport, trade, employment and commodities. Lawyers at Esenyel Partners are qualified and experienced. Working in an internationally challenging environment. ESENYEL & PARTNERS main goal is to add value to our Client’s business focused on finding commercial solutions first.
ESENYEL & PARTNERS Law Firm is a commercial and international law firm with a presence all across the globe. Established by our Managing Partner Selcuk Esenyel in 2012, with insights into international and commercial law and situations that only seasoned professionals can, ESENYEL & PARTNERS Law Firm is a preferred legal partner for many international business establishments with interests across the globe. ESENYEL & PARTNERS Law Firm was established in 2012 after the senior partner Selcuk Esenyel decided to put together a team of legal experts catering specifically to the Turkish Coast, Ports and Shipping in general. The team at ESENYEL &PARTNERS Law Firm currently comprises more than 70 experts and a team of assistants with a key focus on Marine services. ESENYEL & PARTNERS Law Firm has a strong presence across Turkey and partner firms spread across the Mediterranean as well as London, Dubai, Odessa, Shanghai, New York,Paris, Berlin, Singapore, Marshall Islands and Liberia.
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Hawkins
Hawkins is a leader in forensic investigation, root cause analysis and expert witness services covering all types of failures, including those relating to shipping and marine. Established in 1980, we now have over 100 experts based in the UK, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, from where we can deliver our services worldwide. All our forensic experts are highly skilled scientists and engineers, from a wide range of disciplines, with proven expertise and practical experience.Our services include
Pre-loss risk management: We can provide guidance on design, processes, and regulations to ensure safety, compliance, and risk reduction
Forensic Investigation: Investigating the root cause of a failure to understand why it happened, whether a recovery is possible and your level of liability
Expert Witness Services: Acting as the independent expert in litigation and alternative dispute mechanisms.Post-loss advice: Reducing the risk of recurrence and improving processes
Our experts can assist with all aspects of shipping incidents including fires, explosions, cargo contamination or degradation, machinery or materials failures and liquefaction. Our Marine team includes biologists, chemists, master mariners, materials scientists, mechanical engineers, civil engineers and fire investigators
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Hill Dickinson
Our expert legal advice and astute commercial guidance not only takes care of the here and now but gives you the vision and clarity to plan ahead. As our client, we work with you as an extension of your team: you tell us what you want to do and we help you find the best route to achieving it
Who we are ?
We’re a leading commercial law firm with more than 950 people, including over 200 partners and legal directors, spanning offices in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong.
Established in 1810, originally specialising in maritime law, we have been providing expert legal advice for centuries, and still going from strength to strength.
The work we do
As a full-service firm, we support clients throughout the life cycle of their business & at every stage, from startup right through to multi-million-pound sales, and everything in between.
Whether you’re looking to bring a product to market, raise capital, lease premises, draw up employment contracts, protect your assets, incorporate your business or merge with others, we’ve got you covered. We’ll support you through tough times too, taking the weight off your shoulders during commercial disputes and contentious matters.
We’re also a longstanding provider of legal services to the health sector and we’re home to one of the legal world’s largest and most respected maritime and shipping practices.
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Nordic Marine Solutions
Nordic Marine Solutions is a leader within marine surveying and consultancy. The company was founded in 1937, and operating as a full-service company offering services within:
P&I surveys
Loss prevention
Technical consultancy
Different types of cargo inspections
Claims handling
Assistance with salvage sale
Our client’s portfolio consists of insurance companies, cargo owners, shipowning companies and freight forwarders from all around the world. We are also acting as a correspondent for the majority of Norwegian and international P&I clubs.
Trained professional staff and industry experts with backgrounds from maritime or insurance sectors make the company able to provide our customers with services of high quality.
Our offices covering numbers of Norwegian ports allowing us to access quickly on client’s demand. Additionally, we have a strong mutual partnership with other survey companies in Europe and the rest of the world.
As an ISO 9001 certified company, and a member of several recognized associations such as GAFTA and FOSFA, all our activities are carried out in accordance with current international standards and industry specifications
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T&T Salvage
T&T possesses one of the most extensive emergency response networks in the world. Pre-positioned throughout the world, the Teichman Group of companies own and maintain a comprehensive inventory of state of the art fast response firefighting systems, inert gas generators, nitrogen generators, high capacity dewatering pumps, ship-to-ship (STS) lightering systems, anti-pollution systems, three-dimensional sonar, ROVs, and diving systems. The equipment is packaged so it can be rapidly transported by air, land or sea. The specialized portable assets are complemented by floating heavy lift and salvage support vessels ready to meet both routine and emergency response challenges.