A Port State Control inspection is not an exam the ship can retake. A detention costs the days alongside, the price of putting things right under pressure, and a record that follows the ship, raising her risk profile and bringing more inspections at every port after. Most deficiencies that lead to a detention were visible for weeks before the officer came aboard.
Owners and managers order it before a call in a region where the ship is likely to be targeted, after a change of crew or management, or when her record already needs repair.
Let us walk the ship before the inspector does. It is the cheapest inspection she will ever have.
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.
Pre-PSC inspection
Walk the ship before the inspector does.
Pleasure 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.