07.10.2019

Helvetia offers app for transport insurance

St.Gallen - Helvetia Insurance is offering its customers an app for transport insurance. It should allow comprehensive insurance policies to be agreed on the spot in less than two minutes.

Using a simple app, Helvetia allows logistics and freight companies to take out comprehensive transport insurance policies for their customers in less than two minutes. This user-friendly online solution has been developed in close collaboration with existing customers, according to a press release issued by the insurance firm.

The app has been christened PuMarSpeed and displays the insurance premiums during the data collection process data. In this way, customers immediately gain an overview of all costs and services. A simple click is all that is needed for the insurance certificate to be issued right away. Moreover, the app provides a data interface to the systems of logistics and freight companies.

PuMarSpeed was developed in conjunction with  “a world-leading Swiss freight and logistics company” in addition to Willis Towers Watson AG, a global risk management, insurance broker and consultancy firm headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. 

“Thanks to the web application, logistics and freight companies can offer their customers an additional service quickly and easily. These customers can be sure that their goods are being insured with a leading transport insurer”, explains Pascal Barbato, Head Marine, Aviation and Art at Helvetia, in the press release.

Christina Hetscher, Head of Marine at Willis Towers Watson AG, emphasizes the increased efficiency for logistics and freight customers: “The application optimally maps the current process requirements for all those concerned, generating lucrative benefits for our customers and ourselves”.