Liability Insurance for Shipbuilding Yards

This contract covers your Civil Liability towards both your clients and third parties, as well as your employees. You benefit from legal assistance when your liability is called into question.

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An insurance designed to make your company's life easier.

Your clients as well as third parties may hold you liable for bodily, material, consequential and non-consequential immaterial damages they have suffered. We therefore protect:

  • Your responsibility during the work/before delivery of the units if an accident occurs due to your activities
  • Your responsibility after work/after delivery for damage resulting from faulty construction, manufacture, workmanship or installation.
  • Your responsibility is protected. whether the damage is caused by you, your employees or your sub-contractors

Your liability insurance can be supplemented by a Construction All Risks policy for damages to units under construction on your construction site.

Our insurance covers:

  • The bodily injuries caused to your employees
  • The documents and assets entrusted to you (including units currently under repair)
  • Damage to the environment and ecological harm during navigation tests of the units
  • The transportation of a unit up to 250 km from your construction site.
  • The access fees required for repairs after delivery.

Our clients

  • Maritime shipowners
  • Operators
  • Riverboat owners/ Barge operators
  • Fishing
  • Trading of raw materials - goods transported
  • Goods transported - Industry
  • T&L (transport commissioners, carriers, logisticians)
  • Yachting
  • Shipyards
  • Maritime experts
  • Ship financing banks

Our sectors and other products

Why choose Howden?

Our teams offer you a tailor-made guarantee adapted to your activities, your contracts, and the units that are in your hands. We advise and assist you in risk management and claims with optimal compensation:

We offer you a contract:

  • Subscribed with insurers specialized in shipyards.
  • having a strong capital of entrusted assets
  • whose capital is adapted to your activities.

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Jean-Baptiste De Malartic

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

Jean-Baptiste De Malartic

Director of Maritime and Transport Product Line and General Manager of Howden Marine France

Jean-Baptiste graduated from EDHEC Business School with an MSc in Strategy and Organization. After an initial experience at Gan Patrimoine (a subsidiary of Groupama) in personal insurance, he worked for four years in Italy for an insurance captive of the Crédit Agricole group to develop its activity and partnerships. Upon his return to France, he joined the underwriting department of AXA XL (formerly AXA CS) to lead development and innovation projects before integrating the marine cargo underwriting team in France, of which he became responsible in 2020.

Currently serving as Director of the Maritime and Transport Product Line and General Manager of Howden Marine France, Jean-Baptiste is responsible for developing Maritime and Transport solutions, which are one of the pillars of Howden in France. Howden Marine in France is built on the historical foundations of Guian, superbly developed with Seasecure under the direction of Jean Brossollet, with Jean-Baptiste succeeding him.

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