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The Last Voyage of the Jan Maria: Business Strategies of Small Shipping companies in the Age of Steam and Sail.
No full textOn Governance Structures and Maritime Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Case of the Chamber of Insurance and Average (sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
No full textThe resolution of commercial conflicts was an important issue for the municipality of Amsterdam. The city’s government realised that commerce and trade could be hampered if commercial disputes were not dealt with quickly and effectively. A special type of commercial disputes centred on marine insurance and general average cases. In order to regulate the adjudication of these disputes, the city founded a specialised court to deal with these intricate cases. The court’s objective was to minimise any uncertainties, advance transparency and thus to further the development and growth of the city’s trade and commerce and in particular, its profitable insurance industry
Governance of General Average in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century: A backward development?
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The Amsterdam chamber of insurance and average:Its foundation and the first decades of its existence (1598-1621)
No full textIn 1598, in the period when Amsterdam developed into a leading centre of commerce, the Amsterdam municipality instated the Chamber of Insurance and Average. The Chamber's Commissioners were to adjudicate on marine insurance disputes: as the city's insurance market expanded, the number and complexity of disputes between underwriters, insured and insurance brokers warranted a specialised court. During the two centuries it existed, the Chamber has influenced the development and growth of the marine insurance market in various ways. Especially during the first decades of its existence, when procedures and routines were established and its authority still had to be acknowledged, the Chamber's rulings were of great influence on the behaviour of the various groups of actors and the overall expansion of the Amsterdam insurance industry.</p
De Amsterdamse Kamer van Assurantie en Averij. De oprichting en de eerste decennia van haar bestaan (1598-1621)
No full textIn 1598, in the period when Amsterdam developed into a leading centre of commerce, the Amsterdam municipality instated the Chamber of Insurance and Average. The Chamber's Commissioners were to adjudicate on marine insurance disputes: as the city's insurance market expanded, the number and complexity of disputes between underwriters, insured and insurance brokers warranted a specialised court. During the two centuries it existed, the Chamber has influenced the development and growth of the marine insurance market in various ways. Especially during the first decades of its existence, when procedures and routines were established and its authority still had to be acknowledged, the Chamber's rulings were of great influence on the behaviour of the various groups of actors and the overall expansion of the Amsterdam insurance industry
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