It’s always better to be safe than sorry but with today’s climate of piracy at sea you can never be to safe, marine insurance will cover you for damage incurred during the shipment as well the worst case scenario.

Short shipping is a term used when cargo reaches the container terminal within the stack period for the vessel but is left behind by the vessel operator, this can be down to many reasons:

• Vessel is overbooked and isn’t sufficient space for cargo.
• Vessel loading is behind schedule and in order to maintain schedule has to stop loading operations before all containers have been loaded.
• Cargo could not be found at the time of loading.
• Container is overweight and does not correspond with the weight declared at time of booking/acceptance at port.
• Sometimes hazardous goods maybe incompatible with other hazardous goods already onboard.