re: Was there a thread about the barge & ship collision in Galveston?

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i never realized that the ship channel ran that far into Houston

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That's what made Houston. Galveston was all set up to be the "main" city down here and when they got crushed, Houston dug the ship channel and started growing while Galveston rebuilt. Investors were more open to investing in the more protected area of Houston rather than the Galveston area that was just destroyed and basically defenseless.

They have some small policies. It's not industry standard for sure. "self insured" more or less used to describe company with small or non-standard policies and Does not have a IAP with a Spill Management team. Typically creates quite the cluster

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I would think that Kirby would have some some of insurance for this. Probably self insured equipment damages and personal but separate coverage for environmental liability (pollution)?

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I assumed the same thing. I've always been told they were self insured, but they must have some "disaster/over so much money" insurance.