A ship for sale is presented by her seller. The particulars say what she is, not what she has become. The class records show what was inspected, not what was found between inspections. The price a buyer pays is for the ship as she really is, including the repairs the next docking will need and the deficiencies the next inspector will find. A survey before the deal is the only time a buyer can learn that for the cost of a survey rather than the cost of a ship.
Buyers order it before the memorandum of agreement is signed. Banks and insurers sometimes ask for it before they will lend on, or cover, the ship.
Before you commit to a ship, have someone who answers only to you look at her. Ask us to survey her first.
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.
Pre-purchase condition survey
Know what you are buying.
Pre-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.