Transport & Logistics Insurance
Behind every successful delivery is a business making countless things come together. Insurance supports the responsibility that comes with keeping it all on track.
Transport and logistics isn't only about what happens on the road.
Planning supply chains, arranging freight, coordinating carriers and managing client requirements can create significant professional and contractual responsibilities.
For businesses including:
Choose the protection that's relevant to your services, your clients and the way you operate.
Protection against eligible claims arising from professional advice, planning, services or mistakes.
View Cover →Helps protect against eligible claims involving injury to other people or damage to their property.
View Cover →Protection for employee injury or illness, and legally required for most UK employers.
View Cover →Helps your business respond to cyber attacks, compromised client information and digital disruption.
View Cover →Support with certain contractual, employment and other covered legal issues.
View Cover →Helps protect directors and senior decision-makers against certain claims arising from management decisions.
View Cover →Logistics businesses can sit between clients and multiple third parties, making one business responsible for coordinating a chain it doesn't entirely control.
An error in freight arrangements, supply-chain planning or operational advice can cause delays, additional costs or financial loss for a client.
Meetings, warehouses, depots and client locations can create Public Liability exposure where someone is injured or property is accidentally damaged.
Hauliers, shipping lines, airlines and warehouses may all form part of the service you coordinate, creating dependencies outside your direct control.
Client contracts can impose responsibilities around delivery, performance, liability and minimum insurance requirements.
Shipment data, customer information and digital logistics systems can be commercially sensitive and critical to day-to-day operations.
See the cover options available for your transport or logistics business and build your quote online.
Eligible policies include access to practical legal support and business resources to help with the everyday challenges of running your business.
Speak to qualified solicitors about business-related legal issues, including client contracts, employment law, health & safety and other everyday legal questions.
Access ready-to-use contracts, policies, procedures, guides and templates designed to help with the practical and legal side of running your business.
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The cover that's relevant will depend on the services you provide. Professional Indemnity can be particularly relevant where you provide supply-chain, transport or logistics advice, while Public Liability, Employers' Liability and Cyber may also be appropriate.
A professional mistake in arranging freight or providing logistics services can potentially cause a client financial loss.
No. Public Liability and Goods in Transit Insurance address different risks. If your business transports goods, make sure you consider the specific protection required for them.
It can be where your business relies on digital systems or holds confidential client and commercial information.
It's legally required for most UK businesses employing people.
Yes. Contracts can specify both the types and minimum levels of insurance required.
Online insurance available through Captivo is provided by Markel. You'll see full insurer and policy details before you buy.
Commercial protection without adding another moving part.
