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Maritime Risk International

Shipping does not have a shared language for weather risk - and the cost is rising

Craig West, at Weathernews, considers the increasing risk of bad weather and the need for better language to describe it

In almost every industry that manages risk at scale, the baseline question is simple: how bad is it?

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