Cargo claim

A claim is refused for one of two reasons far more often than for the merits: it arrived after nine months, or it was missing an exhibit. The deadline block below exists to stop both.

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The claim
The deadline

A carrier may lawfully refuse anything filed more than nine months after delivery, and may refuse anything that does not do all four of these: identify the shipment, assert liability, claim a specified amount, and be in writing. Fill the delivery date first and count from it — that is the clock, not the date you noticed the damage.

The nine months run from this date, not from when the damage was found.
A claim with no specified amount is not a claim.
Invoice value, repair cost, salvage credit. Show the arithmetic.
The shipment
What proves the value you are claiming. The first thing an adjuster asks for.
What happened
Signed clean makes this harder, not impossible. Say so plainly.
Salvage and inspection

A carrier has the right to inspect the freight it is being asked to pay for, and to take the salvage. Disposing of damaged goods before saying so is one of the few grounds on which an otherwise good claim gets refused outright. Say where the freight is, even if the answer is that it is gone.

Deducted from the amount claimed. Claiming full value on goods you sold as salvage is how a claim becomes a dispute.
It decides who actually owns the claim.
Exhibits
Number them. A carrier that has to ask for a document has a reason to wait.

The PDF is built on your device. Your load data never reaches us — we record a hash of the file, not what is inside it.

The field that decides it

The deadline

A carrier may lawfully refuse anything filed more than nine months after delivery, and may refuse anything that does not do all four of these: identify the shipment, assert liability, claim a specified amount, and be in writing. Fill the delivery date first and count from it — that is the clock, not the date you noticed the damage.

Every other generator prints the same boxes as this one. The difference is that this field is on the form at all, and that it prints whether you fill it or not.

One document proves less than four.

Each of these records something the next one relies on. Generated together they assemble a claim; generated alone they are paperwork.

Questions
Do I need an account to download the cargo claim?
No. There is no account, no card and no watermark, and nothing to fill in before the download. The document is assembled in your browser, so the data you type never reaches a catuh server.
What makes this cargo claim different from any other template?
A carrier may lawfully refuse anything filed more than nine months after delivery, and may refuse anything that does not do all four of these: identify the shipment, assert liability, claim a specified amount, and be in writing. Fill the delivery date first and count from it — that is the clock, not the date you noticed the damage. That field is the reason this document is worth generating rather than copying from a search result.
Can I use this as my standard form?
Yes. Generate as many as you need, unlimited and free. What is sold is not the document but the dated record behind it: a copy kept with the date it was made, which is what turns an invoice into a claim that holds.