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Marine insurance is defined in the Marine Insurance Act 1906 as ‘a contract of marine insurance is a contract whereby the insurer undertakes to indemnify the assured in a manner and to the extent thereby agreed, against marine losses, that is to say, the losses incidental to marine adventure’. Hence this includes cargo insurance involving the maritime conveyance of merchandise from one country to another.
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Branch, A.E. (1994). Cargo insurance. In: Export Practice and Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7258-3_9
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