P&I Service

Supervision Pre-loading/Discharging & Condition

This activity includes compling preliminary stowrage and final cargo plan, monitoring of all stages of loading, control for stowrage and securing of cargo in holds. Both ship’s surveyos and underwrites surveyors maybe involved with these surveys. loading surveys may be required as an extension to service provide above or may stand alone.

Unloading / discharging survey / supervision / inspection, a surveyor maybe called in to report on the condition of the cargo, when it arrives at destination. This may involve no more than an inspectio of a particular commodity, perhaps consignment of machinery or other goods, which may be susceptible to damage or which has suffered know damage in stow. If there is known to be a problem of damage from heavy weather on a voyage, or any other causes, surveyors will often be instructed to attend discharge survey on be half of the ship and possibly also for the receives. Even if the no known damage receives, or more probably their underwriters, knowing that a cargo susceptible to damage, will often commission a discharge survey as this may later make it easier to pin-point liability for any damage.

Loss and Damaged Survey

Damage survey is an inspection by AIM control’s damage experts regarding to the damaged and for which an claim and dispute have been made between two parties (on others), in order to determine the extent and cause of damage.

Third Party Liability

To protect your interests and cover your liability in the event of an incident, Ascoma offers insurance entirely conceived and designed for ship owners that provides individual solutions for operations, property damage, personal injury or pollution. 

Cargo and container damage

Containerization pf freight, also known generally as ISO containers or shipping containers, are used to ship cargo across the ocean from one country to another. It is estimated that 90% of non-bulk freight is shipped in containers. The goods inside a container can be damaged when they are dropped at various stages of transport. Loading at the customer site, loading/unloading at the ocean port, and road transportation to and from the ocean port are situations where a container may be dropped. Dropping of a container at the ocean port is caused by several factors such as poor handling by the heavy-lift crane operator or malfunction of the heavy-lift equipment. Other factors leading to dropped containers are when a container is over the weight limit or if the cargo inside is not evenly distributed with in the container. When a container is being transported by road or rail, the damage will occur along with accidents on the road or rail due to adverse weather conditions or driver/conductor error.

Pre-purchase Condition Survey

Purchase Ship Condition Survey is a pre-purchase survey is a thorough inspection of the vessel’s structural and watertight integrity, System’s installations, and operating condition, as well as performance. A comprehensive report is issued which includes an equipment list, specifications and detailed list of deficiencies and recommendations. Replacement and market values are assigned to the vessel. Most lending institutions and insurance companies require a pre-purchase survey.

Crew and stevedoring injury/fatality investigation

A bulk carrier was in port. A safety and unloading meeting was held between the port production coordinator and the ship’s crew, and the steverdores began to discharge the cargo of coal. During the meeting, the Master pointed out that vessel had enclosed ‘Australian’ hold access ladders (i.e. with intermediate platforms at certain points), so there was a risk of oxygen deficiency in these spaces. It was stated that stevedores should access the holds via the unenclosed straight ladders, which could be accessed via booby hatches that would be opened by the crew.

Contamination

If a pungent cargo has been carried previously, i.e clover or cinnamon for example, the compartment should be deodorized before loading the next cargo. Dirty cargoes should never br carried in the same compartment as clean cargoes. A general comparison of dirty cargoes would iclude such commodities as oils, paints or animal products, whereas clean cargoes would cover the likes of foodstuff of fabrics. Obviosly same noteble exceptions in each of the two classes are to be found.

Collision

Ship collision is the name given to the physical impact that occurs between two ships resulting in a damaging accident. This particular collision can also occur between a ship and a stable or a floating strucfure like an offshore drilling platform or an ice berg or even a port. In majority of such cases the impact is devestating to say the least. The damage the such an accident causes cannot just be measured in terms of coasting or money, in fact it goes beyond that. With the increase in the traffic on the high seas and the technological advancements in the marine engineering resulting in the development of heavy and huge ships with great speed, the risk of such accidents has increased a lot.

Underwater Photography Survey

The underwater survey is a scheduled or unscheduled inspection, but necessery due to the certain circumstances, expertise of risks. The underwater survey of the ship’s hull states is a procedure which is required for each ship irrespectively of her type and cargo-carrying capacity.