Brokerage (or Commission)

It is customary to express the remuneration for the broker’s time and efforts in negotiating and arranging the contract as a certain percentage of the money earned by the shipowner. (In marine insurance, the broker is generally paid a commission by the underwriter although the assured is the broker’s client and the services are for the client.) In shipbroking, the term “brokerage” is generally preferable instead of “commission” because the latter term is usually related to the charterer’s reward as “address commission”.