Cargo insurance · Tacoma, WA
Haldersund insures commercial cargo by sea, road, rail, and air. Full-value transit cover in place of carrier declared-value fees, with damage and loss protection from dock to door. Claims are handled by underwriters who know what a wet container smells like.
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Cover for shipments leaving the U.S., Canada, or the U.K. on parcel networks, LTL, full truckload, and containerised ocean freight.
Carrier declared value stops at the carrier’s liability limit. Our cover pays the invoice value of the goods from the moment they leave your dock, whether that is a reefer load of frozen cod out of Bergen or a pallet of routers out of Tacoma.
Pallet crush in an LTL trailer. Water ingress in a container after a rough crossing. A parcel that never scans again after the sort hub, or a carton lifted from a parked trailer overnight. If it is lost or damaged in transit, it is covered.
Report a loss on the 24/7 line. Upload photos and the delivery note, then follow the file through survey to payment. 96% of claims close within 30 days, and every open file shows its status at any hour.
E-commerce & checkout
Let shoppers add Haldersund protection in the cart. Each order is covered for its full value and lost-parcel disputes leave your support queue. The switch goes live in an afternoon.
Carriers charge a fee on every dollar you declare. Set your monthly volume and typical shipment value to put that fee next to a Haldersund policy.
Carrier fees are taken from published declared-value rate tables. Your figure will differ with negotiated carrier rates, commodity type, packaging, and the trade lanes you use.
Where we are
Founded in Bergen in 2009 by marine underwriters, with a US head office in Tacoma since 2015. Our underwriters and claims adjusters sit in the ports your cargo passes through, and the surveyors can drive to the quay.
Our underwriters publish short notes on the lanes and cargo types we insure: which ports are congested this quarter, where reefer failures cluster, what the claims data says about packaging, and which lanes saw theft rise. Plain English, no sales pitch.
Inland legs produce many small damage claims; ocean legs produce fewer, larger ones. We explain how that changes the deductible you should carry and how to document each handover so the file closes fast.
Goods sitting at anchor or in a yard are still at risk: theft, humidity, rust, expired shelf life. A short guide to what standard transit cover includes during a delay, and where you need an extension.
Tell us what you ship, how many shipments a month, on which lanes, and with which carriers. An underwriter replies within one business day with a rate per shipment and the terms written in plain English.
