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Marine cargo for brokers

Run your cargo book in one system.

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One chain, cover to carrier.

Every cargo placement runs the same six steps. General-purpose systems split them across tools and spreadsheets; here they are one record, with no re-entry between them.

  1. Scheme. Placement, billing and cover types held once as a reusable template.

  2. Open cover. Bound in two inputs, with billing periods instead of phantom instalments.

  3. Declaration. Shipment values declared against the cover, live on the billing worklist.

  4. Certificate. Each certificate drives its own schedule, invoice and document.

  5. Invoice. Issued, posted to accounting as structured e-invoicing, archived automatically.

  6. Bordereau. Carrier cadence set with the placement, produced from the same live data.

Declarations and certificates, invoiced end to end

Declare against the cover, issue the certificate, and the premium, invoice and document follow from the same record.

  • Declaration cover type. Minimum, deposit and variable premium, adjusted against declared values.

  • Certificate-driven billing. Each issued certificate generates its own schedule and its own invoice.

  • Bill-to overrides. Route an invoice to the shipper, the consignee or the freight desk.

Bordereaux that go out on the carrier’s cadence

The placement sets the reporting cadence, and the report runs off the same live declaration data as your invoices.

  • Set with the scheme. Cadence is part of the product definition, not a calendar reminder.

  • One set of numbers. What you report and what you billed reconcile by construction.

  • Programme structures. Master policies and their participating insurers, with programme-level aggregates.

Billing that reconciles

An instalment-aware schedule engine, one monthly worklist, and accounting posting that cannot go half done.

  • Billing Hub. One monthly worklist of everything outstanding, grouped and filterable.

  • Five-step invoices. Draft, issued, posted, paid, void, with allocated payments on each.

  • UBL 2.0 posting. Structured e-invoicing to your ledger, blocked if a counterparty code is missing.

  • Commission as written. Tiered, sliding, hybrid and flat structures flow into the schedules.

In production today

Marine cargo on tigerlab Brokerage runs inside a global logistics-linked brokerage network, across a multi-country rollout. It was built in co-creation with the cargo brokers who use it every day.

Who it's for.

Specialist marine and cargo brokers. Outgrowing the spreadsheet layer around the policy system.

Logistics-linked brokerages. Cargo cover placed beside freight, reconciling to the group ledger.

Multi-country broker networks. One capability set across markets, with per-office locale and currency.

Mixed books. Cargo beside general commercial lines, on one platform.

Cargo is one line. The platform runs the rest.

Placement, money and the day-to-day of running the book, on the same system as your cargo.

Built for cargo

  • Open cover. Binds without fixed schedules; billing periods run across the term.

  • Declaration premium. Minimum, deposit and variable premium, adjusted against declared values.

  • Certificates as billable events. Each certificate generates its invoice, posts it and archives the document.

  • Bordereau reporting. Carrier cadence is set in the scheme when the placement binds.

Placement and commercial terms

  • Schemes. Placement, billing and cover types held once as a reusable template.

  • Policy in two inputs. A policy needs a policy holder and a scheme. The rest is defaulted.

  • Contract shapes. Annual, multi-year, short-period and open-ended terms, validated per type.

  • Commission structures. Tiered, sliding, hybrid and flat structures flow into the schedules.

  • Programmes. Master policies and participating insurers grouped, with programme aggregates.

Money

  • Billing schedules. Instalment-aware, and rounding remainders land on the first instalment.

  • Billing Hub. One monthly worklist of everything outstanding, grouped and filterable.

  • Invoices and credit notes. Five steps from draft to void, with allocated payments on each.

  • Accounting posting. UBL 2.0 e-invoicing to the ledger, blocked if a counterparty code is missing.

Running the book

  • Multi-currency and territory. Base currency and territory per scheme; locale and currency per office.

  • Renewals at scale. Draft every renewal falling in a date window in one operation.

  • The client in one view. Every account opens on premium, receivables, renewals and margin.

  • Correspondence. Every email linked to its record, with Outlook integration.

  • AI that informs. Read-only account insights and email summaries, guarded by role.

  • Compliance. Standing on the account header, changes on the timeline, renewals evidenced.

Frequently asked questions

See it run a declaration, end to end.

In 45 minutes we take an open cover from scheme to bind, declare against it, issue a certificate, and show the invoice and bordereau that follow.

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