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How specialty insurance, from surety bonds to advance payment and trade credit cover, lets contractors, vendors, and lenders finance data center builds with less risk and more available capital. A look at securing the entire build cycle, from the first bond to the financed asset.

The Strait of Hormuz doesn't have to close to change global trade; it only has to look like it might. When it does, the cost travels inland into freight, energy, and delayed cargoes, reaching firms far from the Gulf. Marine and war risk cover, political and trade risk insurance, and supply chain finance keep the trade behind the chokepoint moving, turning a closure or diversion into an insured event rather than an unhedged loss.

When the United States imposes a tariff, the cost rarely stops at the border. It moves down the supply chain into every product that uses the taxed input, provokes retaliation from the partners it targets, and leaves lenders and buyers holding contracts whose economics changed after the deal was signed. With U.S. metals tariffs at 50 percent and the USMCA review unresolved, the hard part is no longer pricing the tariff but financing through the uncertainty around it. Trade cr