Transportation Broker Liability Insurance

As a transportation professional, you must protect your liability. Liability insurance protects you against claims from your clients, third parties, and your employees.

Your responsibility can be guaranteed regardless of your activities as a maritime transport agent, freight forwarder, registered customs representative, warehouse operator, technical expertise office, maritime goods. The deterioration of goods for which transport is under your responsibility, damages resulting from your personal actions (e.g. loss of a package due to failure to transmit stowage instructions to the carrier, choice of unsuitable transport, error in customs formalities) ...

We ensure the following responsibilities:

  • Regarding customers: in the event of non-performance or improper performance of your contractual obligations
  • RC towards third parties: for damage to their property or bodily harm
  • Regarding your employees: in the case of intentional fault on the part of another employee or inexcusable fault on your part
  • The subscription of third party liability insurance is highly recommended. You can insure goods transported through your intermediary on behalf of your customers at an advantageous rate. Damage to goods during transport will be covered, as well as general average costs.
  • "Declaration of value" It can be subscribed to when your client asks you not to limit your contractual liability to material damages so that your liability can be engaged up to the declared value of their merchandise.
  • Special interest in delivery when you receive a declaration of special interest from your customer on delivery, this guarantee covers you for immaterial damage up to the value of the goods declared.

As a freight forwarder, you are subject to the same limitations of liability as the carrier to whom you entrusted your client's goods. In case of damage to the goods, it is your responsibility that your client will seek, so it is up to you to preserve your rights and remedies against the responsible carrier. This is where the commercial interest lies in offering your clients the benefit of your third-party shipper insurance.

Our clients

  • Maritime shipowners
  • Operators
  • River Shipowners/ Barge Operators
  • Fishing
  • Trading of raw materials - goods transported
  • Goods transported - Industry
  • T&L (freight forwarders, carriers, logisticians)
  • Yachting
  • Shipyards
  • Maritime experts
  • Ship financing banks

Why choose Howden?

Our teams offer you a customized guarantee tailored to your activities, the means of transport you use, and the goods being transported. We advise and assist you in risk management and claims with a quick compensation.

We offer you a contract:

  • To extend to all types of goods and to the whole world.
  • Subscribed simultaneously to a third-party loader insurance
  • Subscribed with specialized insurers in transportation.

Contact

Photo of Jean-Baptiste De Malartic

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.