Marine Cargo Insurance

Cargo insurance is one of the oldest forms of insurance in existence and has played a significant role in facilitating the rapid development of world trade. Aon is one of the largest cargo insurance brokerage operations worldwide with dedicated cargo teams handling both domestic and international business.

Why Aon
Aon is knowledgeable about all aspects of cargo insurance. It includes technical client managers dedicated to ensuring you receive the quality service you would expect from a major player, and cargo claims specialists to handle any type of cargo claim in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Overall, our size and experience give us a competitive edge within the market, as demonstrated by the large number of blue-chip companies that choose Aon as their cargo insurance advisor.

Aon offers a vide range of cargo and cargo-related insurance products, with complementary services that can be tailored to your individual needs.

Our products
Aon arranges insurance for all types of goods in transit or storage, from fruit to petrochemicals and automobiles to dairy products, and even high risk products, such as technology components.

As well as offering traditional cargo insurance policies, Aon also provides a number of other products that have been specially developed to meet the growing needs of industry worldwide, such as:

• Stock throughput programmes
• Consequential loss insurance
• Trade disruption insurance
• Freight liability insurance
• Freight equipment, containers and trailers
• War, strikes, war risk on land and associated perils (eg confiscation)

Our services
Aon aims to provide services that are transparent, responsive and cost-efficient. These includes:

• Review and analysis of risks
• Contractual advice relating to cargo exposures
• Programme design
• Development of policy wordings
• Marketing and negotiation with insurance markets
• Claims procedures manual and advice
• Ongoing administration and control of programme
• Provision of policy documentation
• Comprehensive claims handling services
• Provision of insurance market information
• Advice on retention levels
• Risk controls programmes