ODC / OWC · Diwali 2026
From this Diwali 2026
ODC / OWC will never be the same. Cargo risk, engineered into evidence.
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Why now
Grid corridors, battery storage and wind parks are putting record volumes of ODC and OWC cargo on national highways. Each load needs evidence an insurer can rely on.
765 kV-class transformers and shunt reactors ordered for renewable corridors, with deliveries running 2026 to 2027 across several states.
Source: GE VernovaAdded in India in the first half of 2026, with a further ₹5,400 crore of viability-gap funding approved in May 2026 for 30 GWh more.
Sources: ESS News, WingzmanIndia’s longest onshore blade is being readied at Mundra. Blades of 78.6 m and 80.5 m are already in production, over four times the 18.75 m length limit.
Source: News24The rules also matter. MoRTH’s October 2025 circular sets online permission for single indivisible ODC/OWC loads on modular hydraulic trailers, capping each axle row at 18 t (circular RW/NH-35072/01/2010-S&R(B)PT-2, 27.10.2025).
Why iCargoFinsure
Heavy cargo needs more than a checklist. It needs one record that every party can trust, built the same way on every move.
Our benchmarks come from a transformer maker’s book of 207 trips and 242 ODC and OWC inspections, fully anonymised. See the numbers.
AI-assisted readings are confirmed by a human maker and signed by a checker. Nothing is approved by the software alone.
Photographs, securing checks and maker-checker records in one standard record, from the first photograph to safe unloading. See how it works.
The Field Academy walks you through the maker, checker and unloading steps with demo data. Enter the Academy.
How it works
Photographs, dimensions and condition captured at the cargo.
One standard record of what is moving, in metres and kilograms.
Securing capacity checked against the load, with the reasons shown.
Movement and deviation tracked against the approved route.
Permits, policies and records kept with the job.
Delivery readiness and closure evidence, then the record is signed.
Every AI-assisted reading is confirmed by a human maker and signed by a checker. Nothing is approved by the software alone.
Real reports
Every move is a contest. The cargo pulls one way; the vehicle and the lashings must hold the other. Download three real inspection reports, with names, tax numbers, vehicles, drivers and addresses removed, and see where each one landed.
Action: what the move asks of the load Reaction: what holds it Where the bars meet shows who is winning.
Cleared, with notes
Loading
Inside the payload by 15,820 kg
Lashing
Holds, 4.5 kN to spare
Provisionally adequate. The report lists what is still assumed (centre of gravity, friction, lashing angles) so the checker can close it.
Fix before moving
Loading
Inside the payload by 15,290 kg
Lashing
Short by 10.5 kN
The total lashing capacity passes the 1.5× rule (196 kN against 161.9 kN), but the lashings that oppose the forward pull are not enough. The move is conditional on more hard securing at the front and rear.
Do not dispatch
Loading
Over the payload by 11,250 kg (27.61%)
Lashing
Short by 260.7 kN
Movement clearance on hold: the cargo exceeds the vehicle's registered payload, and the lashings are far short. Caught before the truck moved.
Real inspections, redacted. The securing check is an internal screen on stated inputs, not a certified calculation. Figures are the report's own.
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Illustrative campaign artwork, not photographs of real cargo or customers. The force figures in the artwork are examples.
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Inspect first, and the losses and the inspection spend both move. Figures are reported by iCargoFinsure from client pilots; clients are not named.
Power transformers
Industrial chillers
Anonymised, client-reported pilot figures for two clients, April to December 2025: loss ratios on annual turnover and survey fees. The basis is in the research papers on SSRN and Zenodo. Clients are not named. Results vary by cargo, route and operator and are not a guarantee.
The numbers
A transformer maker’s book and the 2025 inspection file, fully anonymised. Hover any bar for its value.
The vision
Every trade starts as a root: a real cargo, photographed, measured and recorded. From that root rises one trunk, a single record every party can trust. Branches reach out to surveyors, transporters, insurers and financiers, and leaves carry the documents, the movements and the money. Grown far enough, the tree becomes embedded, insurance-integrated logistics for the whole trade. ODC and OWC cargo is where we plant it first.
Plant it with us: book a live demoEarly partners help decide what grows next.
Pilot scope: two categories, MoRTH and non-MoRTH, which you switch between in the app. The pilot data holds only the unit of measure, quantity and HSN code of what was floated: no names and no values.
Our book, Cargo OK Please: The Ultimate Guide to Over-Dimensional Cargo, Loss Prevention & Marine Insurance in India’s Supply Chains, by AM Gawarikar and Varun Ashok Gawarikar: see it on Amazon India, or read about the book and buy the Kindle or paperback edition.
Granted patent: Cargo Assets Systems Insurance Interface (CASII). Filed 30 April 2025, granted 2 March 2026. Source: Patent Office, Government of India.
Bid system
A bid is your intent to move ODC cargo. Tell us the movement: one inspection or a repeat programme, and its volume, weight and value. Insurers, brokers, surveyors and shippers bid the way tenders are drawn, and we come back with a response for your cargo.
Your requests on this device
Takes about a minute. Step 1 sends your request; step 2 is optional.
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Thanks, we have your request. A member of the team will get in touch using the email or mobile number you gave.
While you wait: see three real inspection reports.
Inside the app
Cropped from the current iCargoFinsure customer workspace and filled with demo data. The full workflow stays behind the demo.
Counters for drafts, work in progress, awaiting review and returned inspections, with the latest records below.
Tap the screen to enlarge. No client information is shown.
Engineering check
Change the weight or the available capacity and watch the verdict. The worked example is a 68 t vessel.
Illustrative. Not a certified securing-adequacy calculation.
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Units are normalised to metres and kilograms before comparing, as the app does on every maker save. Your entries are kept on this device.
Want to see where a real move lands? See three real inspection reports.
For whom
Standardise ODC inspections across plants and logistics teams, and keep warranty evidence that holds up at claim time.
Guided capture, AI pre-filled forms and one-tap reports. Join as a surveyor.
Consistent, checker-signed evidence for marine-transit underwriting and faster, evidence-backed settlements. Read the insurer brief.
Route, driver, trailer, securing and unloading linked into one job record your client and insurer both accept.
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Pack the evidence. Measure the load. Question the lashing. Hand the file to your checker, then follow the cargo to final rest. Your progress is saved.
Ten SOP photographs, documents, packages, centre of gravity, dunnage, lashing, vehicle, driver and submission.
Correct cargo details with a reason, return to the maker, or approve. Audit trail kept.
Equipment rating against chart capacity, rigging checks, four photo approvals, incidents and HOLD.
0.8 g longitudinal, 0.5 g transverse and 0.6 H assumed CG. Illustrative, not a lashing design.
The full client-edition guide, 11 chapters, searchable, with tables and 38 screen placements.
The real portal screens for paid users, plus ten field decisions to test your judgement.
A guided practice environment and technical reference, not a live survey, permit, verified registry response or cargo-securing certification.
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The thinking behind the platform, with the 2025 inspection data behind it: why inland ODC risk hides in the tail, and why an inspection-first record can see it before the loss.
Working paper · December 2025
Varun Gowariker, Murugan Lakshmanan and Bhavani N.
Claims and loss runs describe risk after the fact. Using anonymised 2025 inspection data, the paper looks at tail delays, concentrated exposure and delay amplification, and finds that risk clusters around combinations of operator behaviour, route constraints and governance gaps rather than shipment volume alone.
Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18044161. Opens in a new tab.
Mean 1.4 days and P90 2 days, yet the slowest inspection ran 11. Orange bars sit beyond P90.
Carrier concentration is high, and higher by shipments than by money.
Each bubble is a carrier. Two smaller carriers carry the worst tails.
Computed from 242 anonymised 2025 inspections, with identifiers replaced by rank labels. See all seven charts or the full analytics.
The team
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Embedding Insurance. Integrated Logistics. Angadiya Trust Chains.
Our community: a LinkedIn group of 37k+ members and a WhatsApp community of 1k+ members. Figures supplied by iCargoFinsure on 18 October 2026, from the group pages.
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FAQ
ODC (over-dimensional cargo) is a single indivisible load that, once loaded, exceeds India's standard vehicle dimensions — 2.6 m width, 4.75 m height or 18.75 m length. Transformers, reactors, wind blades, boilers and bridge girders are typical ODC. Movement on National Highways needs prior MoRTH/NHAI permission and state permissions where applicable. See our ODC inspection guide.
OWC is cargo whose weight pushes the vehicle beyond legal axle or gross limits. ODC is about size, OWC is about weight; heavy project cargo is often both. OWC usually moves on modular hydraulic trailers where MoRTH limits each axle row to 18 t and prescribes HT-1 to HT-13 compositions. Read the OWC guide.
Claude-powered extraction reads the invoice, LR, eWay Bill, RC and driving licence (around 80 fields), vision analysis reviews the site photographs, and a rules engine checks dimensions, weight, the eWay Bill ODC flag and lashing capacity. A human maker confirms everything, and a checker approves before an insurer-ready PDF with a QR code is issued.
No. AI output always lands in the maker's court first, even on a clean parse, and only a checker or admin can approve. The MoRTH dimension and weight softlock is advisory — it flags and explains, and the checker sees the reasons at review.
Yes. Containerised battery energy storage moves as UN3536 (lithium batteries installed in cargo transport unit), a Class 9 dangerous good. The workflow captures the DG paperwork, placards, shock/tilt indicators, twist-locks and securing evidence. See the BESS transport guide.
It is a short PDF: who and what is moving, the vehicle and driver checks, a securing check that sets the force on the cargo against what the lashings hold, ten photographs, and a verdict. Three real reports, with names, tax numbers, vehicles and drivers removed, can be downloaded from the Real reports section of the home page. See the three reports.
A bid is your intent to move ODC cargo: one inspection or a repeat programme, over volume, weight and value, in the MoRTH or non-MoRTH category. Send it on the market page and the team responds to your bid. There are no public prices; each bid is answered for its cargo.
Corporates and assureds shipping project cargo, independent surveyors, insurers and brokers underwriting transit risk, and transporters/EPC teams who move the load. Everyone works from one evidence chain — cargo, conveyance, driver, route, dunnage, chocking, lashing and unloading.
No. It is an indicative screen using the same thresholds our rules engine uses. Permits, route surveys and bridge adequacy are decided by MoRTH, NHAI, state PWDs and the route surveyor.
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Over-dimensional cargo (ODC) in India: 2.6 m / 4.75 m / 18.75 m limits, MoRTH permits, the eWay Bill ODC flag and an 8-block inspection checklist.
Read the guide →Guide · OWCOver-weight cargo (OWC) in India: modular hydraulic trailers, MoRTH HT-1 to HT-13, 18 t per axle row, bridge checks and the evidence insurers expect.
Read the guide →Cargo guide · TransformersHow 765 kV and 400 kV transformers move by road in India: hydraulic trailers, nitrogen and impact-recorder evidence, lashing and AI-assisted inspection.
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