Aquarius Insurance - protecting your investment

Aquarius Insurance Services Ltd (Aquarius) provides a uniform approach to protecting the Aquaculture industry offering clients one point of contact to easily implement insurance solutions for the fish stock, cargo, equipment & cages, and hull/working craft assets.

Aquarius clients benefit from:

• Clear, concise wordings
• The ability to tailor packages to meet the clients individuals requirements
• Access to an extensive network of independent risk control surveyors
• Comprehensive risk management assistance on a 24 hours, 7 days a week basis

Policies can be tailored to include either 'All Risks' subject to policy terms and conditions or specific named perils, including but not limited to:

Fish Mortality Covers

• Pollution, contamination.
• Theft, predators.
• Predation or physical damage caused by predators or other aquatic organisms (but not by sea lice or other ectoparasites)
• Storm, lightning, flooding, tidal wave, Tsunami, collision, sudden and unforeseen structural failure of equipment.
• Jellyfish Infestation, algal bloom and plankton bloom.
• Drought, fire, lightning, explosion, earthquake.
• Freezing, supercooling, ice damage.
• Deoxygenation due to competing biological activity or to changes in the physical or chemical condition of the water, including upwelling and high water temperature.
• Any other change in concentration of the normal chemical constituents of the water, including change in pH or salinity.
• Disease and parasitic infestation.
• Mechanical breakdown or accidental damage to machinery and other installations.
• Electrical breakdown, failure or interruption of the electricity supply, electrocution.

Hull – Working Craft, Support vessels, Cages & Equipment Covers (optional)

• Perils of the seas, rivers, lakes or other navigable waters.
• Fire, lightning, explosion.
• Theft.
• Contact with land conveyance, dock or harbour equipment.
• Accidents in loading / discharging.
• Negligence of repairers.
• Malicious acts.

Cargo covers including live transits (optional)

• Accidental loss or damage.
• Theft.
• Discharge of cargo at a port of distress, General Average and Salvage.

Cargo and rejection insurance

As part of our services Aquarius are able to offer clients Cargo and Rejection insurance.

• Cargo insurance covers physical loss or damage to cargo including loss as a result of 12 hour breakdown of refrigerating machinery or alternativly if required the result of a 24 hour breakdown of refrigerating machinery
• Rejection insurance covers cargo for the risk of rejection or condemnation by the government of the country of import or their agencies or departments during the period of insurance. Rejection insurance can only be provided with cargo cover.