What Brink's Global Services Offers
Brink's Global Services is the secure logistics business of Brink's. Its site says it serves customers in more than 100 countries and works through an integrated worldwide network. Its industry pages cover diamonds and jewelry, precious metals, bank notes, fine art, electronics and pharmaceuticals.
For diamonds and jewelry, it lists secure logistics covering pick-up, transit and delivery, trade show services including customs, overnight storage and booth delivery, inventory management and customs clearance. Its Secure Logistics page adds services such as shipment preparation, vaulting and storage, hand carry, long-haul transportation and risk consulting.
The same page says Brink's moves cargo in armored vehicles operated by trained personnel, with specialists supervising shipments in transit. It describes cargo telemetry that monitors location, temperature and humidity, and track and trace through its Brink's Online platform. It also says shipments it handles are covered by cargo insurance policies under what it calls All-Risk Protection, but the pages we checked do not publish coverage amounts, limits or exclusions.
Brink's Connect for Lower-Value Parcels
Brink's Connect is described on its own site as secure, insured logistics for lower-value parcels, built for diamond and jewelry e-commerce. The site says it combines insurance, logistics and customs clearance expertise, coordinates secure pickup and provides tracking from pickup to delivery.
To get started, the site tells shippers to create an account in Brink's Online, contact the sales team to prepare the shipment, and then request a quote or book a meeting. The pages we checked do not publish pricing, coverage amounts or per-parcel value limits.
How Brink's Contract Terms Work
Brink's Global Services publishes a standard Valuables Transport Contract on its site. It is a blank form with no date or signatures, so a signed contract may differ, and your own agreement is what counts.
In the form, Brink's describes itself as a private contract carrier, not a common carrier or a bailee. The customer must declare a value for each shipment. For lost property, Brink's pays up to the lesser of the declared value or the actual monetary value on the date of loss. If no value is declared, or the declared value is significantly below the actual value, liability is the lesser of the total charges or $500. Consequential losses, such as lost profits, are excluded.
The form states that Brink's is not an insurer of your shipment and that Brink's maintains insurance payable to Brink's. Its Secure Logistics page, by contrast, describes cargo insurance policies. Ask which applies to your service and get the answer in writing.
Notice periods are short. The form requires written notice of an intention to claim within 24 hours of discovering a loss, and no later than 4 days after the agreed delivery date for a total loss or 7 days after delivery for partial loss or damage. Proceedings must begin within one year of the event, and late notice waives the claim.
Other conditions in the form can affect a claim:
- Declare a realistic value on every shipment. An understated value limits what a claim can pay.
- Breakage of fragile articles, including decorative items such as jewelry, is excluded unless caused by fire, lightning, theft or attempted theft.
- Fragile items such as scales, printers and laptops need advance written notice and cannot share a container with other property.
- Brink's may refuse any shipment, and dangerous or noxious items must be disclosed.
Brink's Global Services and Unival Compared
The table compares what each provider publishes. The Brink's column reflects its public pages and contract form checked in October 2026, and either provider can change its terms at any time.
| Feature | Brink's Global Services | Unival |
|---|---|---|
| Service | Global secure logistics, including vaulting, customs and trade show services | Insured, secure shipping for high-value goods |
| Cover published | Cargo insurance policies described, with no limits on the pages checked | Full value up to $150,000, and contact us if worth more |
| Nature of cover | Its contract form says Brink's is not an insurer of the shipment | Covered goods confirmed in your quote |
| Notice period | 24 hours from discovery, and 4 or 7 days from delivery, in its contract form | Set by the policy terms |
| Lower-value parcels | Brink's Connect, set up through Brink's Online and its sales team | Quote form for each shipment |
| Pricing | Not published on the pages checked, quote on request | Quoted before each shipment moves |
What to Ask Any Provider Before You Switch
Whichever provider you consider, these questions show whether the cover fits your shipments:
- Is the protection insurance, or the provider's contractual liability?
- What is the maximum per parcel and per shipment, and does it differ by goods or destination?
- How is value measured, and what happens if the declared value is lower than the true value?
- Which goods are excluded or need advance written notice?
- How many hours or days do I have to give notice, and to whom?
- Is there a minimum shipment, and how are lower-value parcels handled?
Switching From Another Provider
You can compare before you change anything. Shipments already booked stay under the terms they were booked with, so begin with a quote for one upcoming shipment and set it beside what you use today.
Send the contents, declared value, pickup location and destination through the quote form. We will confirm how the shipment will be carried, the coverage and the price before anything ships.
Where Unival Fits In
Unival combines full-value insurance, secure transportation and hands-on support for high-value shipments. Every shipment is quoted before it moves, so you know the coverage and the price in advance.
- Full-value insurance covers the declared value of the shipment up to $150,000. If your shipment is worth more, contact us before you ship.
- Secure transport services are arranged for high-value goods.
- Sellers who want shipping connected to their store can read about our API and Shopify integration, and you can track a shipment online.
- We serve jewelry and watch, precious metals, art and collectibles, technology, healthcare, business and ecommerce shippers, as well as cash movements.
See our guides to insured jewelry shipping, insured watch shipping and insured precious metals shipping, our overview of insured high-value shipping, our carrier insurance comparison and our page on shipping insurance cost.
Brink's is a trademark of its owner. This page summarizes publicly available information about Brink's Global Services as checked in October 2026, for information only. It is not an official Brink's document, and Brink's own terms control, so confirm the current terms with the provider before you ship.
