Illustration by Shaw Nelsen is from the October 2019 issue of National Underwriter Property & Casualty magazine. Illustration by Shaw Nielsen is from the October 2019 issue of National Underwriter Property & Casualty magazine.

If you look around your office or home, you'll see items that were transported by sea.

Michelle O'Donovan, North America product line director, cargo, International Marine Underwriters notes that most raw materials and manufactured goods are, at one time or another, shipped via vessel — imports into and exports from the U.S., including goods moving inland via barges.

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