Purchasing Automobile Shipping Insurance
February 26, 2009 by
Prior to setting a date to get your automobile transported to a new location, either domestic or international, you need to consider purchasing car shipping insurance. Transport insurance will protect your auto in event of damage or theft during the length of transportation.
Not all car shipping insurance policies are identical. Oftentimes your regular auto insurance will not cover your vehicle while it’s being transported by a trucking company within the US or by a shipping company to an overseas destination. Just to make certain, call your auto insurance company to check what types of indemnity (if any) are encompassed under your actual policy.
When you’re shipping your car internationally via ocean carrier or airline you must remember that their responsibility for losses and damages are limited under the international commerce laws. Usually the limit is only a mere $500 per unit! You might want to buy extra cargo insurance coverage so that the automobile is covered completely. Get sufficient coverage to underwrite the full replacement value of your car. Remember, that car prices are much higher in other countries and to replace your car overseas will cost much more than in the USA.
When you’re about ready to ship your car, you had better take photos of the vehicle before it’s loaded onto the truck or delivered to the port. You want also to carry out an inspection with the driver or longshoreman and mark down old body dents or scratches. This will facilitate later on if you discover any missing items or new damages on the body of the car. Protecting your automobile starts with purchasing auto moving insurance, but you’ll have to be diligent in making certain that you will be able to file a claim and get the net worth you paid for should anything occur to your car during the transit.
Hong Kong-based ocean carrier OOCL said it will begin raising rates on the eastbound trade between Europe and Asia by $100 per TEU beginning Nov. 1. “The economic downturn has led to a weakening of revenue levels to the extent that freight rates are unable to cover basic operating or transportation costs,” the carrier said in a customer advisory. American Shipper| Maritime News
it needs things fixed and I can't afford them yet lol, and I don't have insurance, and public transport is easier and cheaper
Hey, sorry I'm very late posting a reply here. Good to hear you have new transport
Insurance is a killer on a new/pricey vehicle, but at least it drops (or should) once we hit 25.
The GTI is a very good choice .. I'm curious to hear your impressions some four months later.
I hear dealers will often clear out inventory at the end of the month to meet quotas; it sounds like waiting was the right thing to do for you.
If I catch you in the atlanta area and you don't mind, I'd enjoy a ride in your vehicle
no, it's more than lightbulbs, it's actually turning down the thermostat, there is no doubt about thislarge-scale hypothermia will follow, as night follows dayi thought i had understood the point about oil price only being one of several components in the cost of motoring – in fact car prices have fallen, in real terms quite a lot – but the psychology of the thing is another key aspect and I judge we have reached some kind of tipping-point as regards the popular conception of energy-use(the environmentalists have been hoping this would happen for ages, of course)
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Helga
This has been a very thoughtful discussion, and I have just read your valuable contribution. (Thanks also to Gail I am now also a follower of Ugo's blog – thank you Ugo; yesterday I followed your link from 'The Great Technological Wall' and reread the Rudyard Kipling tale for children “On the Great Wall”.)
I think your (Helga's) idea of agrarian and now modern industrial 'civilisations' as essentially 'experimental' is about right. As an aside, some of the apparent pre-requisites appear to have interesting histories. I understand for example, that writing and arithmetic have been invented many times, and pretty quickly at that, to match any rising trading trajectory (following from storage and transport), whereas alphabets and wheels were perhaps rarer inventions and needed to be handed on. Some civilisations missed out!
There are, despite the pattern of rise and fall, some agrarian civilisations that maintained, albeit erratically, high density populations on the same land for very extended periods. Some were maintained over thousands of years to this day, and they shortened fallow 'soil restoration time' , which is as you say a key limiting factor, mostly by re-cycling a high proportion of soil nutrients. These populations also were notably, but not always, associated with 'renewable' deposition from large rivers; the Yangtze, Indus, Nile etc. and became Empires, or part of Empires. (Rivers could have been a long term sources perhaps of phosphate and potassium and carbon?) In those situations the ratio of the size of the 'superstructure' compared with the agrarian base would be severely limited by the rate that the base could renew itself. By superstructure I mean the layers of society supported by the farming base; everything from specialised local craft industry and its trading, through to regional food storage and transport (insurance against inevitable variation in crop yields), and finally political and military elites. The limiting factor for agricultural production, and in particular its 'export' to the superstructures, seems to have been the rate of renewal of soil nitrogen.
A 'new organic' arable farming, however, emerged during 17thC that shortened the fallow period for temperate agriculture. Soil nitrogen levels in parts of England are calculated to have been raised 3 fold by the use of clover's N fixing power, so that after 1750, England's 'carrying capacity' was raised from about 6M to closer to 18M, when by 1850 22% of the population in farming could just about feed the rest. The fast growing cities of course by that stage were outgrowing domestic food production, and the British Isles soon needed to import the majority of primary calories, which is still the case.
Large areas of North American farming, however were not able to achieve sustainable economic sale of food to the cities without mining the centuries of pre-farming soil fertility. According to Geoff Cunfer's expert study (2005) “On the Great Plains”
“They applied manure as it was available, rotated legumes when it was convenient. But they had no strategy for the very long term. By the 1930s, … soil nitrogen was about half what it had been at sod-breaking and crop yields declined steadily. … Soil nitrogen and organic carbon drifted steadily downward, and with them yields and profits. Faced with this dilemma, farmers … [with industry] … appropriated abundant cheap fossil-fuel energy to import enormous amounts of synthetically manufactured nitrogen onto their fields.
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