Charterers' Comprehensive Cover

In the shipping industry, Charterers play a very important role, but sometimes encounter more difficulties than shipowners when dealing with accidents or incidents. A shipowner is able to communicate directly with the Master and crew, and obtain first-hand information about the nature and extent of the accidents or incidents, while a charterer is often in lack of such sources of information, although the charterers' liabilities are no less than the shipowner’s, which include contractual liabilities to shipowners and cargo owners as well as possible non-contractual liabilities to third parties.

To assist Charterers, the Association’s Charterers' Comprehensive Cover provides a worldwide network to gather information extensively and profoundly so as to assess the situation and offers claims service through the Association’s experienced team.