Redkik and Fortress launch on-demand Bridge Cover for logistics
Redkik, a logistics-focused insurance technology platform, and Fortress Logistics Insurance, a specialty brokerage serving the freight industry, have announced a partnership to launch Bridge Cover, an on-demand insurance product targeting the coverage gaps that standard logistics policies routinely leave open.
The product is aimed at freight forwarders, freight brokers, non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs), and final-mile delivery operators. It is designed to let those operators add gap coverage, excess limits, or spike protection in real time through Redkik's platform, without initiating a new policy or a lengthy renewal cycle.
Filling the gaps in freight insurance
Logistics operators have long navigated a structural mismatch between the static nature of annual insurance programmes and the dynamic nature of freight risk. Seasonal demand surges, one-off high-value shipments, and the layering of multiple carriers across a single supply chain all create windows of uninsured exposure that standard policies do not address. Bridge Cover is positioned as a transactional fix: operators quote and bind additional coverage in the moment the risk arises, with Redkik's automation handling policy administration and Fortress's underwriting expertise sitting behind the product.
"By partnering with Fortress, we're able to put an on-demand, purpose-built solution directly into our platform, so operators can close a coverage gap or add excess limits in the moment they need it, not weeks later," said Chris Kalinski, founder and CEO of Redkik.
Brendan M. Walsh, President of Fortress, described the partnership as a way to extend the brokerage's specialist logistics coverage to a wider pool of operators than it could previously reach through traditional distribution channels.
The wider convergence: InsurTech meets supply-chain resilience
The launch sits within a broader shift in how the logistics sector is rethinking risk infrastructure. The disruptions of recent years, pandemic-era bottlenecks, Red Sea rerouting, and post-globalisation supply-chain fragmentation, have pushed freight operators towards more granular, event-level risk management rather than annual blanket programmes. InsurTech platforms that can embed transactional insurance directly into logistics workflows are increasingly attractive both to operators seeking flexibility and to insurers seeking distribution at scale.
From a capital-allocation standpoint, logistics InsurTech occupies an interesting intersection. Underwriters are under pressure to price dynamic, shipment-level risk in near-real time, which requires data infrastructure that legacy brokers rarely own. Platforms like Redkik's are effectively becoming the connective tissue between freight operators' operational data and the insurance market, a role that carries strategic value well beyond any single product launch. For specialist insurers and reinsurers, partnerships of this kind represent a low-capital route into a distribution channel that would otherwise require years of relationship-building.
The macro context matters too. As supply chains continue to restructure around geopolitical fault lines, friend-shoring, nearshoring, the diversification of trans-Pacific freight lanes, the complexity and volatility of logistics risk profiles is rising. Operators managing multi-modal, multi-geography shipments face a patchwork of liability regimes that standard annual policies were never designed to accommodate. On-demand, data-driven coverage products are a direct response to that structural shift, and the addressable market for them is expanding as freight complexity grows.
Neither Redkik nor Fortress disclosed the financial terms of the partnership, premium volume targets, or carrier backing for the Bridge Cover programme. The product is available through Redkik's platform with immediate effect.