"This book is an in-depth study of air and ocean goods-in-transit claims. It sets out to guide and assist businesses within the fresh produce industry to successfully implement the best processes and procedures to maximise their recovery efforts against contracted carriers. Fresh Produce...

Spreading the risk : marine insurance as a commercial and financial innovation in Europe up to the eighteenth century -- An entrepôt in the north : Hamburg as a centre of maritime trace and transport -- Depending on the city's commerce : the 'regional' Hamburg insurance market in the eighteenth...

"Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. Deeply and...

Introduction -- Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- The Premium: Structural Factors -- The Premium: Contingent Factors -- The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- The Market...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to This Edition -- Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Note on Dates, Names and Currencies -- Chapter 1 Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Chapter 2 Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Chapter 3 Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Chapter 4 Trade...

LPG (Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization) syndrome in economic sector has dominated the economies worldwide for past four decades. This has led to freeing of trade exchanges among nations, with the World Trade Organization (WTO) as latest pattern, organizing and regulating their...

This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty.