The Latin American Association of Marine Underwriters (ALSUM) collects annual premium and loss statistics from the freight transport insurance market, in order to provide information to its affiliates and the general information that makes possible to know and analyze the market trends in Latin America. Currently, ALSUM has information by country and insurance company since 2007.

The ALSUM marine figures are available since 2007 and come from the official sources of information published by the Municipalities, Central Banks and entities of the insurance sector for 17 countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.