Fear that one of the new generation of mega-containerships might end up as a casualty was the nightmare scenario the last time the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) met in Tokyo in 2006.
The 15,500-teu Emma Maersk (built 2006) had entered service just a couple of weeks ahead of that conference, so there was a lot of concern about the accumulation of risk posed by the largest boxship yet built, as well as how a salvage operation could be handled.
