Inland Transit
Goods damaged, short-delivered or lost while moving within India by road or rail.
Also calledMarine Cargo (Inland Transit) · ITC Clauses · Sales Turnover Policy
First thing, todayDo not sign a clean receipt. Record the damage or shortage on the delivery document before you sign.
- Tell the insurer now, not after the assessment.
- Notice to the transporter in writing, within the time your policy sets.
- Every document within the time the insurer asks for it.
When you would claim
- Consignment arrives damaged, wet or contaminated
- Shortage against the packing list
- Non-delivery or theft in transit
- Accident to the carrying vehicle
What insurers most often rely on
- A clean receipt signed at delivery
- Notice to the carrier not served in time, destroying the insurer's recovery right
- Insufficient or unsuitable packing, an exclusion
- Cover incepting after the journey began
- Goods carried outside the declared route or mode
On a transit claim most of them come down to a notice that was given in time or was not, which is a matter of record either way.
The documents
half of it belongs to the carrier13 items, and the carrier's papers matter here as much as the insurer's. Most of this list exists to prove the goods left whole and did not arrive that way.
- Claim form and the policy or certificate
- Invoice and packing list
- Lorry receipt or railway receipt
- Delivery challan carrying your remarks, signed at delivery
- Written notice served on the carrier, and their reply
- Survey report, joint where possible
- Photographs of the consignment as it arrived, before unloading
- Weighment slip and the shortage certificate
- Repair or reconditioning estimate, or the salvage position
- Cancelled cheque and bank details in the insured's name, for the NEFT payment
- Details of any other insurance covering the same risk
- A claim bill: the amount claimed, itemised, with the working behind it
- Damage or non-delivery certificate issued by the carrier
Next
Marine Cargo Claim: First 72 Hours
A clean signature on a damaged consignment is given away in a hurry by someone who did not know what it cost. Here is the order to do things in.
Most often lost by: Signing a clean receipt.
Check the sum insured
This cover carries an average clause. Declare less than the value at risk and every claim pays that proportion short, a partial loss exactly as much as a total one. Three numbers will tell you where you stand.
Filed under: Marine and transit · Goods in transit
Claims that sit next to this one
the same consignment, or the next legImport and Export Cargo
the same goods, crossing a border
Carriers' Legal Liability
the transporter's own answer for them
Project and Over-dimensional Cargo
a consignment too big for an ordinary policy
Consignment short and the carrier gone quiet? Report a loss or call 92514 56334.