Depending on your company's settings, your marine insurance rates are stored in ONE of the following three ways:

• Traffic/Insurance report
• Product Categories
• Marine Insurance Table

The marine insurance report is used to report the units, weight, and value of items that are afloat as of the end of a particular month.

First, select your Marine Insurance report from the list of saved reports, then pick Modify.

To change the default rate on this report, go to Screen 2 and enter the Insurance Premium in the space provided.

Change the Insurance Premium rate on Screen 2 to change the system default rate.

The rate will save automatically.

Print this report as normal and use the totals to report your insurance.

You can set a separate marine insurance rate for each category of material in your system. To change these rates, go to Codes & Terms > Product Codes > Product Categories.

Accessing the list of product categories from the main menu.

You can change the rates on each product category, then select Save to save the new values and exit the scan.

Enter the marine insurance rates on the product categories.

Marine FOB Insurance Rate - Marine insurance rate to be used for this category when material is for shipment terms FOB.
Marine CIF Insurance Rate - Marine insurance rate to be used for this category when material is for shipment terms CIF.

If you enter insurance rates for this category, CATS will use this insurance rate for marine FOB, marine CIF, inland, and warehouse insurance rates instead of the system-wide default rate.

The shipment terms are codes CATS uses as shorthand for the terms you have agreed to with your counterparty on a contract. Shipment terms can be created to indicate Free On Board; Cost, Insurance & Freight; Cost and Freight; Exdock, or any other terms you need to use.

Scanning the Shipment Terms

After you pick Add, you will be asked to enter a new code. Enter the code and pick Apply.

Enter a Code for the New Shipment Term

Enter relevant details about this term and pick Apply.

Entering the Terms Detail

Form of Contract - Allows you to associate these terms with a confirmation template, for use of specific language as noted below.
Show on invoice - Choose to display the full text of the Description field on the invoice instead of just the grade code.
Append Field - With this drop-down box you can select to add the Origin code, Origin Long Name, Destination code, or Destination Long Name to the contract terms when they appear on the confirmation.
Connecting Language - Language to use for appending the field above. If you wrote From Origin in this field, and elected to add the Origin code above, you would see From Origin: BRAZIL (for example) on the confirmation.
Language for Contract Conditions - If nothing is entered here, CATS will use the Description field instead to populate the Terms field of the contract confirmation.
Language for Contract Type - If you choose to associate the terms with a contract template (see above), you can choose the language to appear here. So if you associated this term with the CIF contract confirmation template, you could write CIF Contract and it would show up on the contract confirmation.

Shipment terms codes can affect other areas of CATS, including the following items:

Shipment terms are used by CATS to determine how material will be valued. If an item is entered as FOB, then no further calculations are required to determine the market value of that item, if your system setup uses FOB valuation of open contracts. This is a system setting.

Setting to Use Terms to Value Contracts

The shipment terms can also affect what items are shown on the Marine and Warehouse insurance reports. This is a system setting.

Marine Insurance Method Using Terms

Also, if you are using a marine insurance percentage table, the terms can be set up to use different rates based on each shipment term. This is an option available to you in CATS.

The Marine Insurance Terms Table

From this table, you can control how each shipment term affects the marine insurance values. You can also choose to omit/include sold material if it has a particular term attached to it.