At the discharge port a bulk carrier is often lightened into barges that carry the cargo on to the terminal or up the river. On a large ship one centimetre of draft is sixty tonnes or more; on a river barge it is six to ten. The ship’s figure alone cannot say what went into each barge, and a receiver who does not measure the barges is trusting the whole discharge to the coarsest figure in the chain. Cargo that goes missing there is missing for good, and so is the money.
Receivers, traders and terminals order it whenever a cargo is discharged into barges for onward carriage, barge by barge, as they are loaded.
Measure the barges, or accept the ship’s figure as the only one you will ever have. Ask us to survey them.
Ask about this surveyHow it goes
Write to us
One email with the vessel, the port and the ETA. A surveyor answers day or night.
We attend
On board, on the barge or at the yard, in person, with our own instruments.
You get the report
Figures, photographs and the signed statement, so the facts stand later.
Other surveys
On/off hire bunker survey
The charter changes hands on agreed figures.
02Bunker quantity survey
The quantity you paid for, verified.
03Draft survey
Cargo quantity by displacement, shown in full.
04On/off hire condition survey
The ship as she was handed over, on record.
05Cargo sampling and monitoring
Samples that will hold up later.
Barge draft survey
The cargo that left the ship, barge by barge.
Pre-purchase condition survey
Know what you are buying.
08Pre-PSC inspection
Walk the ship before the inspector does.
09Pleasure yacht survey
Motor and sailing yachts, afloat and hauled out.
10Loading and discharging supervision
A surveyor at the hook or the hose.
11Shipyard supervision
Repairs followed on your behalf.
12Marine consultancy
Advice from people who have stood the watch.