John Doe wrote in :

In terms of insurance, I feel this would be a non issue. Since the
station is a government owend system (owned by many governments to
boot), an incident would probably be covered by the governments who
contracted with the cargo delivery company who will have undoubtedly
signed a contract that liberates it from any liability should it bump
into the station.

Yes, that's called "indemnification", and it's one of the possible
solutions I listed earlier in the thread. The problem is that
indemnification never comes without strings attached, and if history is any
guide, those strings will be intrusive enough so as to negate many of the
advantages of a commercial arrangement. It'll revert to a government-
contractor relationship in all but name.

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