{"id":1627,"date":"2026-04-02T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:05:29","slug":"markel-insurance-appoints-james-shankland-as-head-of-ocean-cargo-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/markel-insurance-appoints-james-shankland-as-head-of-ocean-cargo-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Markel Insurance appoints James Shankland as Head of Ocean Cargo, US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Markel, the insurance operations within Markel Group Inc., has announced the appointment of James Shankland as Head of Ocean Cargo, U.S.<\/p>\n

\"MarkelIn his new role, Shankland will lead the growth of Markel\u2019s U.S. cargo portfolio, overseeing underwriting strategy, portfolio management, and broker engagement.<\/p>\n

Based in Markel\u2019s New York office, he will work closely with actuarial, claims, operations, and distribution teams to ensure disciplined execution across the business.<\/p>\n

Shankland brings deep marine cargo underwriting leadership experience across global insurers, with a strong track record in portfolio management, underwriting discipline, and broker engagement.<\/p>\n

He joins Markel from AIG, where he most recently served as Underwriting Team Lead \u2013 Ocean Marine, managing a significant cargo portfolio, leading underwriting teams, and partnering closely with key brokers to drive profitable growth.<\/p>\n

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Prior to that, Shankland spent six years at Allianz, most recently serving as Underwriting Product Manager \u2013 Marine Cargo.<\/p>\n

Michael Keely, Managing Director, Ocean Marine, commented, \u201cJames has a deep understanding of the increasingly complex risk, operational, and coverage challenges our brokers and customers face in today\u2019s cargo market.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy building on the success of our global cargo business and investing in building out a dedicated U.S. ocean cargo team, we are bringing that same level of expertise and reliability to the U.S. market.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to build on Markel\u2019s global capabilities and bring a disciplined, long-term approach to the U.S. market,\u201d said Shankland. \u201cThere is strong demand for consistent underwriting, technical expertise and meaningful capacity, and I look forward to working closely with our brokers and clients to deliver solutions that support their evolving ocean cargo risks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Markel, the insurance operations within Markel Group Inc., has announced the appointment of James Shankland as Head of Ocean Cargo, U.S. In his new role, Shankland will lead the growth of Markel\u2019s U.S. cargo portfolio, overseeing underwriting strategy, portfolio management,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ateliersfurrer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}