Dear Editor,
We refer to the article published in the November 27, 1998 issue of FTW regarding the merger of Marriott and MarineServe Brokers.
We would like to highlight one point that is of concern, which we feel would not have created a good impression, and we quote: It represented a strange marriage between one of the country's major liability insurance companies, with vast resources in the shipping and chartering fields, and the lightweight MarineServe Brokers, whose business previously had been confined mainly to covering smallcraft and yachts.
MarineServe has been working very hard to create a name as one of the leading marine cargo insurance brokers, and the fact that MarineServe's business is far greater than that of Marriott proves this point.
I feel that your choice of words in using 'lightweight is uncalled for and damaging, and I felt that your attention should be brought to this fact.
Craig Schweitzer, Marriott MarineServe, Randburg.
