Maritime transport parametric insurance
Covers schedule disruption when wave height or an official port closure keeps ships from sailing on time.
Index, trigger and payout
Payout
How the cover works
What is measured, and when it pays.
- Risk covered
- Shipping schedule disruption from weather-driven port closure or unsafe sea conditions.
- Parametric trigger
- Significant wave height + port-closure flag.
- Payout
- Predefined payout compensating the loss, sized on an 11-tier trigger scale.
- Index resolution
- Marine zone, per event
- Data and model
- Weibull distribution — significant wave-height model (offshore-engineering practice, e.g. DNV standards).
- Typically for
- Logistics, maritime & fisheries
Bought by the same clients
Related covers.
Next step
Test the trigger on your own location.
We back-test the index at your site over its full history and come back with indicative terms, before anything is bound.