This provides financial protection against loss or damage to goods transported by sea. While Goods-in-Transit Insurance covers items moved by road or rail, Marine Cargo Insurance extends protection to goods shipped both internationally and domestically via marine routes. Cover can be arranged on a single transit basis or as an open cover, depending on the frequency of shipments.
Key Features
Cargo Insurance offers two main cover options:
- Clause A – All Risks Cover
- Clause C – Restricted Cover
Clause A – All Risks Cover
Provides broad protection against accidental physical loss or damage, including:
- Fire or explosion
- Vessel or craft being stranded, grounded, sunk, or capsized
- Overturning or derailment of land conveyance
- Collision of vessel, craft, or conveyance with an external object
- Discharge of cargo at a port of distress
- Earthquake, volcanic eruption, and lightning
- General average (sacrifice, expenses, and contribution) and salvage charges
- Jettison or washing overboard
- Sea, lake, or river water damage
- Total loss of packages lost overboard or during loading/unloading
- Piracy
- Deliberate damage or destruction caused by malicious acts, vandalism, sabotage, arson, or scuttling
Extra charges incurred from:
- Termination of voyage at an intermediate port
- Charges for averting or minimizing loss
Accidental damage due to:
- Shifting during heavy weather
- Improper handling or storage
- Breakage, leakage, denting, scratching, crushing, crumpling, or chipping
- Contact with other cargo
- Theft, pilferage, or non-delivery
(All losses must be accidental in nature.)
Clause C – Restricted Cover
Provides essential protection against major marine risks, including:
- Fire or explosion
- Vessel or craft being stranded, sunk, or capsized
- Overturning or derailment of land conveyance
- Collision
- Discharge of cargo at a port of distress
- General average
Benefits
- Protects the value of goods shipped by sea against a wide range of accidental risks
- Reduces financial exposure for importers, exporters, manufacturers, and traders
- Ensures business continuity by covering losses that may arise during marine transit
- Supports smooth logistics operations through optional open-cover arrangements
Suitability
- Importers and exporters
- Manufacturers transporting raw materials or finished goods
- Freight forwarders and logistics providers
- Businesses that ship goods frequently and need comprehensive marine protection