When the quality of a cargo is questioned, the argument is settled by a sample, and a sample is only as good as its provenance: who took it, from where, at what point in the operation, and whether it has been sealed since. Without that, a laboratory result proves nothing. Watching the loading and the discharge serves the same purpose, a record made at the time by someone with no stake in the answer.
Traders, receivers, shippers and their insurers order it for cargoes where quality is part of the price, which is most of them.
A sample sealed by an independent surveyor is a sample nobody can question. Ask us to take it.
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.
Cargo sampling and monitoring
Samples that will hold up later.
Barge draft survey
The cargo that left the ship, barge by barge.
07Pre-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.