A ship earns money while she moves and loses it while people argue. Most of the arguments start small: a notice sent a day late, a cargo accepted that should have been refused, an incident written up in a way that reads badly a year later, a vetting inspection walked into unprepared. By the time lawyers are involved the facts are fixed and the only question left is who pays. The time to get it right is before, with someone who knows how a ship actually works and what a charter party, a P&I club or an oil major will make of each line.
Owners, charterers, traders, insurers and their lawyers come to us with a question that needs a seaman’s answer: what happened, what it means, what to do next. Claims and disputes, operational questions, vetting and inspection preparation, and a second opinion on a report somebody else wrote.
Ask the question early, and ask someone who has stood the watch. Write to us.
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.
06Barge 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.
Marine consultancy
Advice from people who have stood the watch.