{ "name": "freightinsurancecost.com Cargo Loss Base Rate", "title": "Cargo Loss Base Rate", "url": "https://freightinsurancecost.com/datasets/cargo-loss-base-rate/", "csv": "https://freightinsurancecost.com/datasets/cargo-loss-base-rate.csv", "markdown": "https://freightinsurancecost.com/datasets/cargo-loss-base-rate/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-11-12", "license": "https://freightinsurancecost.com/terms", "headline": "The Cargo Loss Base Rate carries 7 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages; the 4 published figures given by line of business run from 1.50 to 7.90 percent, read 11 November 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Cargo Loss Base Rate carries 7 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages; the 4 published figures given by line of business run from 1.50 to 7.90 percent, read 11 November 2026.", "2 of the 8 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 11 November 2026.", "Cargo Loss Base Rate, year 2025 container loss rate: median 0.00 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.", "Cargo Loss Base Rate, cause one major incident's share of 2025 losses: median 43 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.", "Cargo Loss Base Rate, line of business global marine premium change 2024: median 1.50 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.", "Cargo Loss Base Rate, line of business ocean hull premium change 2024: median 3.50 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.", "Cargo Loss Base Rate, line of business cargo premium change 2024: median 1.60 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.", "Cargo Loss Base Rate, line of business offshore energy premium change 2024: median 7.90 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.", "Cargo Loss Base Rate, region London share of the offshore energy market: median 60 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026." ], "citation": "\"freightinsurancecost.com Cargo Loss Base Rate\", updated 2026-11-12, https://freightinsurancecost.com/datasets/cargo-loss-base-rate/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 7, "units": { "%": 7 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 8, "read_sources": 8, "not_published": 6, "published_share": 0.25, "pooled": "withheld: these figures differ by breakdown and are never summarised together; see headline_figure and by_axis" }, "headline_figure": { "kind": "range", "label": "Range by line of business", "unit": "%", "n": 4, "min": 1.5, "max": 7.9, "breakdown": { "axis": "line of business" }, "sources": 1 }, "by_axis": { "year": { "2025 container loss rate": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 0.0005, "min": 0.0005, "max": 0.0005, "p25": 0.0005, "p75": 0.0005, "mean": 0.0005 } } }, "cause": { "one major incident's share of 2025 losses": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 43, "min": 43, "max": 43, "p25": 43, "p75": 43, "mean": 43 } } }, "line of business": { "global marine premium change 2024": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 1.5, "min": 1.5, "max": 1.5, "p25": 1.5, "p75": 1.5, "mean": 1.5 } }, "ocean hull premium change 2024": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 3.5, "min": 3.5, "max": 3.5, "p25": 3.5, "p75": 3.5, "mean": 3.5 } }, "cargo premium change 2024": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 1.6, "min": 1.6, "max": 1.6, "p25": 1.6, "p75": 1.6, "mean": 1.6 } }, "offshore energy premium change 2024": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 7.9, "min": 7.9, "max": 7.9, "p25": 7.9, "p75": 7.9, "mean": 7.9 } } }, "region": { "London share of the offshore energy market": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 60, "min": 60, "max": 60, "p25": 60, "p75": 60, "mean": 60 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "World Shipping Council, containers lost at sea", "url": "https://www.worldshipping.org/containers-lost-at-sea", "figure": "0.0005%", "value": 0.0005, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "year": "2025 container loss rate" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "quote": "1,478 containers lost at sea in 2025, out of over 280 million transported (0.0005%)", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "8dfa199c408f50b637d3e706ed569b0649d59c4faedb96197c63cceb05e7ac72" }, { "source": "World Shipping Council, containers lost at sea", "url": "https://www.worldshipping.org/containers-lost-at-sea", "figure": "43 percent", "value": 43, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "cause": "one major incident's share of 2025 losses" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "quote": "One major incident alone accounted for 640 containers lost, or approximately 43 percent of the annual total.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "8dfa199c408f50b637d3e706ed569b0649d59c4faedb96197c63cceb05e7ac72" }, { "source": "IUMI Stats Report 2025", "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/iumi-stats-report-2025/", "figure": "1.5%", "value": 1.5, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "line of business": "global marine premium change 2024" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "quote": "• Global marine insurance premiums in 2024 totalled USD39.92 billion a 1.5% uplift on 2023.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "8633e2fb8c05afbbc815330dacda0a55073157a196a120f8cd19630a03c3132b" }, { "source": "IUMI Stats Report 2025", "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/iumi-stats-report-2025/", "figure": "3.5%", "value": 3.5, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "line of business": "ocean hull premium change 2024" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "quote": "• Ocean hull premiums were reported at USD9.67 billion, up by 3.5% on the previous year.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "8633e2fb8c05afbbc815330dacda0a55073157a196a120f8cd19630a03c3132b" }, { "source": "IUMI Stats Report 2025", "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/iumi-stats-report-2025/", "figure": "1.6%", "value": 1.6, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "line of business": "cargo premium change 2024" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "quote": "• Premiums for cargo insurance reached USD22.64 billion representing a 1.6% uptick on last year.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "8633e2fb8c05afbbc815330dacda0a55073157a196a120f8cd19630a03c3132b" }, { "source": "IUMI Stats Report 2025", "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/iumi-stats-report-2025/", "figure": "7.9%", "value": 7.9, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "line of business": "offshore energy premium change 2024" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "quote": "• The offshore energy sector reversed its recent run of premium base growth to report a 7.9% reduction at USD4.34 billion for 2024.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "8633e2fb8c05afbbc815330dacda0a55073157a196a120f8cd19630a03c3132b" }, { "source": "IUMI Stats Report 2025", "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/iumi-stats-report-2025/", "figure": "60%", "value": 60, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "region": "London share of the offshore energy market" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "quote": "London continues to dominate this market with a 60% share.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "8633e2fb8c05afbbc815330dacda0a55073157a196a120f8cd19630a03c3132b" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "World Shipping Council, Containers Lost at Sea Report 2026 update", "url": "https://www.worldshipping.org/news/world-shipping-council-releases-containers-lost-at-sea-report-2026-update", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "IUMI statistics", "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "IUMI Global Marine Insurance Report 2025", "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/global-marine-insurance-report-2025/", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "IUMI on containers lost at sea", "url": "https://iumi.com/policy/containers-lost-at-sea/", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/marine-accident-investigation-branch", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport", "url": "https://unctad.org/topic/transport-and-trade-logistics/review-of-maritime-transport", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.worldshipping.org/containers-lost-at-sea", "label": "World Shipping Council, containers lost at sea", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.worldshipping.org/news/world-shipping-council-releases-containers-lost-at-sea-report-2026-update", "label": "World Shipping Council, Containers Lost at Sea Report 2026 update", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/iumi-stats-report-2025/", "label": "IUMI Stats Report 2025", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/", "label": "IUMI statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://iumi.com/statistics/global-marine-insurance-report-2025/", "label": "IUMI Global Marine Insurance Report 2025", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://iumi.com/policy/containers-lost-at-sea/", "label": "IUMI on containers lost at sea", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/marine-accident-investigation-branch", "label": "Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://unctad.org/topic/transport-and-trade-logistics/review-of-maritime-transport", "label": "UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 8 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 6 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 7 figures, never sentences; 17 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the containers-lost count and the container-loss RATE (losses per million containers carried) joined to the marine insurance premium and loss-ratio series, so the price a shipper is quoted can be set beside what the market actually pays out and what actually goes over the side; the series is what makes it quotable - the loss rate is a fraction of a hundredth of a percent, one bad casualty moves the annual number by half, and no page publishes the count, the rate and the premium base together", "embed": "

1.50 to 7.90 percent

4 of 7 published figures (line of business), Cargo Loss Base Rate, across 2 sources, read 11 November 2026

Source: freightinsurancecost.com Cargo Loss Base Rate
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