Norwegian Hull Club is a mutual marine

Marine insurance

Marine insurance covers the loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport or cargo by which property is transferred, acquired, or held between the points of origin and final destination....

 insurance company. The company operates within hull and machinery insurance, loss of hire insurance and total loss interests insurance. Main offices are in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, with additional offices in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Kristiansand

Kristiansand

-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

 and Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

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History

Assurance associations started in Norway in 1806. The roots of Norwegian Hull Club started in 1837 when Langesundfjordens Skibs Assuranceforening (later Den Første Norske Assuranceforening) and Skibsassurance-foreningen was founded, both in Arendal

Arendal

is a town and municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. Arendal belongs to the traditional region of Sørlandet.The town of Arendal is the administrative center the municipality and also of Aust-Agder county...

. In Bergen the first assurance association was Bergen Dampskibs-Assuranceforening founded in 1879 while the dominant Eastern Norwegian club was Skibsassuranceforeningen Vidar from 1895. In 1937 Bergens Assuranceforening and Bergens Dampskibs-Assuranceforening were merged to create Bergen Hull Club while 1951 saw the Eastern Norwegian merger to form UNITAS

UNITAS

UNITAS are sea exercises and in port training involving several countries in North, South and Central America, conducted by the USA since 1959 in support of the U.S. policy.-External links:* * - Globalsecurity.org...

. Norwegian Hull Club was formed in 2001 when Bergen Hull Club and UNITAS merged.