Our typical surveys include:

• Ship draft surveys on cargoes such as Grain, Bauxite, Alumina, Coal, Petcoke, Steel, Cement, Flourspar, Charcoal Briquettes & Fertilizer.
• Barge draft surveys on Titanium Dioxide and Aluminum Hydrate and other bulk commodities.
• Preload, load and discharge steel surveys on Hot Rolled Coils, Cold Rolled Coils, Galvanized Coils, Wire Rods, Plates,Beams, Blooms & Pipes – typically in Brownsville associated with the Mexican steel producers, Ahmsa, Galvak, Imsa, Tubacero & Hylsa.
• Damage surveys on Ships, Barges, Tugs and Dock installations.
• Oil spill clean-up operation monitoring, if you should be unfortunate enough to have a spill the proper monitoring will ultimately reduce the overall cost significantly.
• On and Off-hire vessel Fuel Condition and Hold Condition surveys – complete with photographs of relevant damages.
• Vetting inspections on behalf of oil majors, presently using the SIRE 2 system for one oil major.
• Vessel inspections for owners in advance of oil major vetting – to identify those areas that require attention before oil major inspections.
• Flag state annual inspections on behalf of Liberia, Panama, Marshall Islands, Malta and Vanuatu.
• Sampling bulk cargo throughout loading/discharge by collecting samples from either a representative number of grabs/trucks/rail cars or from conveyors at regulated time periods.
• Attendance onboard Oil Tankers either throughout the discharge or merely to witness the ROB survey, supervision of offshore lightering.
• Loading, unloading and securing surveys on ships and barges – steel, machinery, containers, drilling rig parts and project cargo.