Marine Insurance

Your calm after the storm

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About Marine Insurance

Marine businesses operate across routes, vessels, cargo, ports and logistics partners, often across borders and jurisdictions. Marine insurance is designed to protect these interconnected exposures, helping safeguard assets as they move by sea, air and land.

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Marine risk protection

At Hollard, we provide protection for cargo transportation, private pleasure craft and commercial hull, ensuring your marine assets are covered throughout their journey. We also offer specialist Marine Liability solutions, including Charterers’, Stevedores’ and Ship Repairers’ Liability, bringing together the key areas of responsibility that shape marine operations.

Cover from departure to delivery

In shipping and logistics, continuity matters. Hollard works closely with brokers and marine businesses to deliver coordinated protection across cargo, vessels and liability exposures, helping ensure your operations remain resilient from departure to delivery.

Speak to your broker about getting the right marine protection with Hollard.
 

About Marine Insurance

Marine businesses operate across routes, vessels, cargo, ports and logistics partners, often across borders and jurisdictions. Marine insurance is designed to protect these interconnected exposures, helping safeguard assets as they move by sea, air and land.

Hollard marine insurance banner with connecting dots showing coverage across ports, cargo and marine operations

Marine risk protection

At Hollard, we provide protection for cargo transportation, private pleasure craft and commercial hull, ensuring your marine assets are covered throughout their journey. We also offer specialist Marine Liability solutions, including Charterers’, Stevedores’ and Ship Repairers’ Liability, bringing together the key areas of responsibility that shape marine operations.

Cover from departure to delivery

In shipping and logistics, continuity matters. Hollard works closely with brokers and marine businesses to deliver coordinated protection across cargo, vessels and liability exposures, helping ensure your operations remain resilient from departure to delivery.

Speak to your broker about getting the right marine protection with Hollard.
 

Our products

Marine Cargo Insurance


Marine Cargo provides coverage against loss or damage to goods while being transported, either locally or internationally. The cargo is moved by all international modes of transportation namely by ship, aircraft, truck or train.

Marine Stock Throughput


As the cradle-to-grave approach, Stock Throughput covers the movement of raw materials, their storage and the final transportation of the finished products following processing.


Single Shipments Goods are covered against loss or damage for a Single Shipment or movement of goods.

Marine Liability Insurance
 

  • Ship repairer
  • Charterer
  • Stevedore
  • Ship builder

Cargo Insurance
 

  • Imports/exports by land/sea/air
  • Local goods-in-transit
  • Stock throughput

Carriers Interest in the Goods Policy (care, custody and control)


Provides coverage to transporters for physical loss of, or damage to, Goods-in-Transit while in their care, custody and control.

Household Goods and Personal Effects


Covers private individuals for loss of or damage to their Household Goods and Personal Effects while moving house domestically or internationally.

Marine Liabilities


Provides cover for the insured up to the agreed limits for liabilities incurred in the course of their business activity. Typically, these include:
 

  • Charterers’ liability
  • Stevedores’ liability
  • Ship Repairers’ liability

Hull Insurance
 

  • Commercial hull
  • Pleasure craft

Pleasure Hull
 

Designed for Pleasure Craft that are primarily used on inland and coastal waters. We cover physical loss or damage to the boat itself, as well as any specified equipment and machinery. Cover may be extended to include Third-Party Liability and Passenger Liability up to agreed limits.

Commercial Hull
 

Designed for economic activity such as commercial fishing, we insure physical loss or damage to the boat itself, as well as any specified equipment and machinery. Cover may be extended to include Third-Party Liability up to agreed limits.

Get in touch with one of our business development managers in your region today

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Why choose Hollard?
 

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More than 6 million people trust us to protect what matters

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We're S.A's largest private insurance group

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We empower entrepreneurs through our many CSI initiatives

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Find us in 18 countries across 4 continents

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