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Re:A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers by golergka on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:15AM (#25332257)
> surprise bill

That policy sounds like something that would be common in shipping for a long time, and something that insurance companies would long have had covered against, no?

Re:A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers by wolfgang42 on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:40PM (#25336235)
If you have insurance, yeah, they’ll take care of everything for you. But if you didn’t buy insurance for your container, imagine getting a letter that says “your container arrived safely, but you have to pay an extra $1,000 because some other peoples’ didn’t. Oh, also, that’s only an estimate that you have to pay a deposit on, it could take months to sort everything out and get an actual total.”