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Transport & Logistics
Connecting the dots: enhancing your supply chain
Comprehensive Insurance Solutions for the Transport & Logistics Sector
With extensive industry experience, Howden delivers tailored insurance, risk advisory, and claims solutions that span the entire supply chain—from freight forwarders and intermediaries to inland transit operators.
Our end-to-end service offering includes:
Risk advisory
Helping clients build resilience and navigate supply chain disruptions with confidence.
Specialist broking
Our experts understand the nuances of contract and cargo policies, customs clearance, and operational risks. We have experts across every insurance class, ensuring we provide the right product for each business type.
Dedicated support
Our Transport & Logistics claims and People Risk teams specialises in managing logistics-related claims, ensuring swift recovery and minimal disruption, protecting drivers and employers around the clock.
What sets us apart is our deep sector knowledge and collaborative approach. We work closely with clients to demystify complex contracts, design bespoke insurance programs, and effectively position your risk in the insurance market – ensuring you return to pre-loss operations as soon as possible.
Wherever you operate in the transport and logistics ecosystem, Howden is your trusted partner—supporting you at every turn.
Key challenges Howden can help address
Contracts and terms of sale
We help clients navigate the insurance exposures imposed on them through their contractual obligations. This includes leases, standard terms and conditions of trade or carriage, agreements with (sub)contractors and during tender processes. We also assist clients with understanding the impact Incoterms associated with the sale/purchase of cargo internationally have on insurance requirements.
Employee safety and retention
Our employee benefits and people risk team helps you support your workforce and navigate industry challenges with tailored solutions.
Bespoke insurance products
We craft your story, highlight your achievements, and present your risk expertise to the market. Through our strategic partnerships with insurers who understand and support your sector, we leverage Howden’s global network to engage both local and international markets.
Asset risk and exposure
We support you in addressing challenges of asset risk and exposure, including equipment and vehicles, rising repair costs, and supply chain disruptions – ensuring your business remains resilient.
Comprehensive claims protection
As specialists in Transport & Logistics claims, we manage claims from notification through to close-out, expertly guiding you through this journey. Our aim is to maximise recovery and return you to your pre-loss state as soon as possible, whilst also helping you improve your own claims processes.
Proactive risk management
We’ll identify areas for improvement through gap analysis, design tailored frameworks, and support implementation - allowing you to focus on driving your business forward.
Servicing the entire supply chain
At Howden we offer tailored solutions and expert advice to clients across various stages of the supply chain.
- Importers/Exporters/Suppliers/Receivers
- Supply Chain Service Providers
- Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
- Freight Forwarders and Agents
- Local Carriers and Transport Operators
- Cargo On-Sell and Removalists
We provide services to:
- Principal Carriers & Subcontractors
- Road Freight & Multimodal Transport Operators
- Removalists & Couriers
- 3PL Solutions & Storage
- Freight Forwarders & Customs Agents
- Freight Aggregators
- Importers & Exporters
- Wholesalers & Suppliers
- Retailers & Distributors
- Manufacturers & Primary Producers
- Stevedores & Port
Methodology
Howden have developed a risk-led methodology to assist the Transport & Logistics sector.
What we do
We work with you to help understand the risks which are impacting your people, operations and finances. We can do this through organisation-wide risk workshops, or by taking a deep dive into a specific risk or business area.
Benefit to you
By focusing on current and emerging risks, your organisation can understand the areas of highest priority and those that will have the largest impact.
What we do
We work with you to develop internal capability and solutions to address enterprise-wide or specific risk areas. This is done by interviewing your people, designing individual risk frameworks, and increasing education on emerging risks. We then seek opportunities to remove, mitigate or transfer these risks away from your business.
Benefit to you
By engaging directly with your people, we help you to develop, refine and implement new policies and procedures that address high profile issues, and create sustainable solutions.
What we do
We focus on embedding robust risk management and supporting your team to monitor and assess the effectiveness of risk controls and procedures. We also offer change management, crisis management, injury management and broader employee benefit programs to support your people day in day out.
Benefit to you
By providing year-round risk management, we become an extension of your team, with the ability to proactively identify new risks, and react swiftly when extra support is required.
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