{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"air cargo insurance","description":"Unlike marine cargo insurance, which often covers entire shiploads across multi-week voyages, air cargo insurance is calibrated to the distinct risk profile of air transport: brief but intense ground handling phases, in-flight turbulence, and the particular vulnerability of high-value commodities. It covers loss, damage, or theft of a shipment from handover to the carrier through to delivery at destination. Shippers and consignees take it out because the air carrier's statutory liability under t","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","name":"Frachtportal Logistics Glossary","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary"},"url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary/air-cargo-insurance","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-06-22T13:03:37.434884","citation":"https://www.icao.int/secretariat/legal/List%20of%20Parties/Mtl99_EN.pdf","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/glossary/en/air-cargo-insurance","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"air cargo insurance · Unlike marine cargo insurance, which often covers entire shiploads across multi-week voyages, air cargo insurance is calibrated to the distinct risk profile of air transport: brief but intense ground handling phases, in-flight turbulence, and the particular vulnerability of high-value commodities. · Quelle: https://www.icao.int/secretariat/legal/List%20of%20Parties/Mtl99_EN.pdf"}