
Cancellation Charter Insurance
The Charter Cancellation Insurance helps to mitigate the risks related to the often high contractual commitments in the charter sector.
Ensure your businesses
- The events covered concern the insured person and their loved ones.
- External events
- What services are provided?
Regarding the insured person:
- Of death
- Illness - alteration of health observed by a medical authority, preventing one from leaving their room.
- Accident - any unintentional bodily injury resulting from an external cause.
- Obstacle justified by a dismissal
- Administrative, judicial and military convocation
- Theft of transportation tickets, passport or identity card occurred 10 days before departure.
Regarding the insured person's relatives:
- Cancellation due to illness or accident occurring 10 days before the start of the rental.
- Non departure of the charter in case of force majeure
- Simultaneous strike of air and rail transport preventing the arrival of the insured person.
- Weather conditions making navigation impossible or dangerous.
The insurer covers:
- The reimbursement of rental expenses for the guaranteed trip is limited to €200,000.
- The reimbursement of cruise interruption expenses for the guaranteed trip.
- In case of total cancellation, the reimbursement of delivery/return costs incurred for the canceled charter/transport is limited to €50,000.
The insurer will only cover the portion due by the insured at the origin of the cancellation, except in the case of the death of one of the tenants.
Our clients
- Yacht tenants under 75 years old of any nationality except USA, Canada, and Russia under MYBA and/or transport contract, listed in the coverage request.
Why choose Howden?
Our team supports you in setting up this contract and in managing claims. We offer you a contract:
- Subscribed with insurers specialized in event cancellation.
- Applicable to MYBA contracts and new transport contracts.
- And without any nationality restrictions.
A Repatriation - Baggage contract is also available for your clients, tenants or passengers of yachts with professional crew.
Contact

Jean-Baptiste De Malartic
Director of Maritime and Transport Product Line and General Manager of Howden Marine France