The transportation industry is rarely out of the spotlight. Catastrophic events such as air accidents, train crashes and tunnel fires are ever-present risks. At the same time, transportation systems have become targets for terrorists.

New commercial pressures add to the management challenges, as markets are liberalised and old entities come under threat from the new.

The Transportation Practice within Marsh is the world’s leading provider of risk management solutions to the transportation and logistics industries.

Our knowledge base gives us a unique understanding of the issues facing the sector and allows us to design innovative risk solutions.

We have considerable depth of experience in the various sectors that make up our market segment - logistics, fleet and self-drive hire, rail and passenger rail, bus and coach, ports and marine terminals, airports and airlines and tour operators.

We provide a range of services that include:

• business risk solutions — addressing the exposures associated with operations or services provided to others and benchmarking these against industry best practice
• employee risks — helping organisations achieve significant reductions in the direct and indirect costs of employee injuries, absenteeism and staff turnover
• risk financing — including financial modelling to ensure the optimum balance of risk retention and risk transfer
• insurance programme design and placement — tailored to ensure the most cost-effective risk transfer solution
• project financing — reducing risk by using insurance mechanisms
• fleet management — including accident management service, driver training and fleet risk control
• claims handling — including Marsh's market-leading Risk Management Information Systems, STARS, and cost-effective claims management.