Service 04 of 12
On/off hire condition survey
The ship as she was handed over, on record.
A time charter begins and ends with a handover, and everything that happens to the ship in between is charged to one side or the other. Dents in the hold frames, a torn hatch gasket, a bent rail by the crane: without a record of what was there at delivery, each of them becomes an argument at redelivery, and the argument is won by whoever kept the better notes.
Owners and charterers order it at delivery and at redelivery, often together with the bunker survey, so that the condition of the ship and the bunkers on board are fixed in one visit.
Have the ship’s condition recorded by someone neither side employs, and redelivery becomes a handover, not a negotiation. Ask us to attend.
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.
On/off hire condition survey
The ship as she was handed over, on record.
Cargo 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.
12Marine consultancy
Advice from people who have stood the watch.