2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (502+ words) The Rhine carries around 70% of Europe's inland waterway freight, moving diesel, heating oil, coal, grains and cocoa for companies including Thyssenkrupp, BASF and Lanxess. German chemical group Covestro has warned it may be unable to meet certain delivery obligations, given…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (679+ words) Insurance Business Drought now a business continuity risk for inland waterway freight - TT Club The Rhine at its lowest since 1880, barges operating at a fraction of capacity, and nuclear reactors being shut down to conserve river cooling - TT Club's warning…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (493+ words) A Federal Court judge's intervention into a horror Northern Territory airboat crash made headlines last week. But for the insurance market, the more useful story sits in a separate fight in the same court file: an insurer's refusal to indemnify…...

4+ day, 21+ min ago   (336+ words) On June 29, the US House of Representatives voted 373-15 to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program through 2034. A Senate companion bill is pending. It's a routine-sounding vote on paper, but it's really Congress renewing, for the fifth time, a program built…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (617+ words) New Zealand brokers have a narrowing window to review client cover – and the science says conditions will keep deteriorating. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) confirmed in its latest update that an intensifying El Niño is already generating droughts and floods…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (237+ words) A technical failure in National Air Traffic Services' (NATS) flight data processing system cancelled more than 1,300 flights across UK airports on September 8, with a further 177 cancellations recorded the following day, according to flight tracking platform Flightradar24. The disruption triggered an immediate…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (328+ words) Canada's counter-tariffs on $27.6 billion of US goods took effect September 8, matching Washington's rates of 15%, 25% and 50% dollar-for-dollar across steel, aluminum, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, as well as electronics. The measures respond to the US imposing its own 50% tariffs…...

5+ day, 44+ min ago   (254+ words) Two fatal aviation crashes struck Florida within 24 hours last weekend. One was a commercial cargo overrun with complex multi-party liability. The other was a general aviation fatality of the kind that accounts for the large majority of US aviation deaths…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (454+ words) Bangladesh’s insurance regulator distributed claim cheques worth Tk 14.51 crore to 2,549 policyholders on September 3 – an event that looks routine on its face but points to a market where the claims process has deteriorated badly enough to require the regulator to step…...