OCEAN MARINE CARGO CLAUSES
I. Scope or Cover
This insurance is classified into the following three Conditions-Free From Particular Average (F .P. A.), With Average (F.P.A.) and All Risks. Where the goods insured hereunder sustain loss or damage, the Company shall undertake to indemnify therefor according to the Insured Condition specified in the Policy and the Provisions of these Clauses: 1. Free From Particular Average (F. P. A.) This insurance covers:
(1) Total or Constructive Total Loss of the whole consignment hereby insured caused in the course of transit by natural calamities-heavy weather, lightning, tsunami, earthquake and flood. In case a constructive total loss is claimed for, the Insured shall abandon to the Company the damaged goods and all his rights and title pertaining thereto. The goods on each lighter to or from the seagoing vessel shall be deemed a separate risk. "Constructive Total Loss" refers to the loss where an actual total loss appears to be unavoidable or the cost to be incurred in recovering or reconditioning the goods together with the forwarding cost to the destination named in the Policy would exceed their value on arrival.
(2) Total or Partial Loss caused by accidents-the carrying conveyance being grounded. stranded ,sunk or in collision with floating ice or other objects as fire or explosion.
(3) Partial loss of the insured goods attributable to heavy weather, lightning and/or tsunami, where the conveyance has been grounded, stranded. sunk or burnt, irrespective of whether the event or events took place befor |