Cargo cover · Gothenburg · Rotterdam · Seattle
Skjoldmark writes transit cover for commercial freight: parcels, LTL pallets, full loads and containers, by road, sea, rail or air. One policy replaces carrier declared value. It pays the invoice amount when goods are stolen, crushed, soaked or never arrive, and 94% of claims settle inside 30 days.
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Declared value caps at what the carrier is willing to owe, and on many parcel tariffs that is $100. Skjoldmark insures the invoice. A pallet of laptops leaving Kent, WA, or a trailer of e-commerce returns heading back to the DC, is covered for what you billed, from your dock to the consignee’s.
Cartons crushed under a heavier LTL stack. A trailer cut open overnight at a truck stop. Electronics dropped during cross-dock transfer, or a return that comes back with the box resealed and empty. Each is a covered event under the policy, and you do not have to prove the carrier was at fault.
Call the 24/7 loss line and upload your photos, the BOL, the delivery receipt and the carrier’s scan history. One adjuster owns the file until it pays. 94% of claims settle within 30 days; the ones that run longer are waiting on a survey.
Declared value is priced per $100 declared, on every parcel, whether it arrives or not. Enter your monthly volume and average shipment value to see that charge next to a Skjoldmark per-shipment rate.
Carrier charges reflect published declared-value tariffs at the time of writing. Your own figure will depend on your negotiated discounts, on what you ship, where it goes and how it is packed.
Parcel, LTL, truckload, container and air freight out of the U.S. and Canada, and out of the U.K., insured on one policy. The carrier’s own liability terms do not change the cover.
Online stores & returns
Offer Skjoldmark cover as a line item at checkout. Every order is insured to its total, and returns are covered on the way back. Lost-parcel disputes go to our claims desk instead of your inbox. Integration takes an afternoon.
Footprint
Three cargo underwriters founded Skjoldmark in Gothenburg in 2011. Rotterdam followed in 2013, and the US head office opened in Seattle in 2016 beside the Port of Seattle and the Northwest Seaport Alliance. Underwriters, surveyors, adjusters and inspectors sit in the ports and hubs your freight passes through.
Send us what you ship, the monthly volume, the lanes and the carriers you use. An underwriter comes back within a business day with a per-shipment rate and a wording short enough to read over the phone.
Short notes from our adjusters and underwriters: where trailer thefts cluster, which cross-dock hubs produce the most crush damage, how e-commerce returns move a loss ratio, and what a seal log is worth at claim time. Written from the files, with the numbers left in.
Rest stops on I-10 and I-80, and the hours between 22:00 and 04:00. Electronics and apparel ahead of every other commodity. What the claims data shows, and how staging and seal discipline change your premium.
Most LTL crush damage happens at the terminal, during the forklift transfer between trailers. A guide to pallet height, corner boards, stretch-wrap tension and photo-at-handover routines that shorten your files and lower your deductible.
