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Marine insurance began in the cities of Northern Italy, about the end of the twelfth century. Italian merchants came to the United Kingdom in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and brought with them their trading customs, including marine insurance. Initially merchants entered into marine insurance contracts as incidental to their general trading activities and later specialised in this business.
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© 2008 Tarsem Singh Bhogal and Arun Kumar Trivedi
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Bhogal, T.S., Trivedi, A.K. (2008). Marine Insurance. In: International Trade Finance. Finance and Capital Markets Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594326_21
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