Survey coverage, selected case studies and representative instructions
UK ports and places where instructions have been carried out.
Overseas ports and locations where instructions have been carried out.
The UK and overseas maps show the locations where jobs have been carried out.
$4 million dispute over damaged corn
Settled in client's favour.
$2.6 million quantity dispute
Spodumene concentrate. Identified error in shore-scale calculation.
Cargo lashing failure
Managing the aftermath of cargo damage and conducting an investigation into the fatality.
Supervised the discharge of multiple units of a multi-million-dollar power-plant boiler, ensuring correct lift plans and unloading procedures were followed throughout the operation.
Provided on-site expert survey oversight to ensure structural integrity, safe handling and compliant unloading procedures throughout the operation.
This instruction reflects our core strength: combining litigation-ready expert advice with practical marine surveying attendance on technically demanding cargo operations.
We assist with complex cargo operations, including heavy-lift loadings and project cargo supervision.
'Helicopter loading supervision.'
Survey attendances across cargo, casualty and port operations.
Summaries of work done.
The vessel grounded in the Black Sea close to the Turkiye coast. We assisted the Owners' P&I insurers with managing distressed cargo on board and maintained detailed records to support the claims handling process for years afterwards.
The vessel suffered a power failure affecting more than 100 reefer containers. We supported the Charterer's P&I interests through surveying, discharge, disposal of decomposed cargo, and record-keeping required for long-tail claims handling.
Following a heavy weather encounter, the vessel lost containers overboard and multiple stacks collapsed on board. We assisted the slot Charterer's and their P&I insurers, coordinated joint surveys, salvaged recoverable cargo, and kept stakeholders informed as the casualty response and claims work progressed.
The vessel grounded and partially sank in shallow water. We managed discharge of distressed cargo, organised joint surveys, coordinated salvage of recoverable cargo, and maintained detailed records that supported the claims handling process for years afterwards.
A gantry crane collapsed into the vessel in port, and subsequent recovery operations triggered fire and firefighting flood damage within the cargo holds. We assisted the Owners and their P&I insurers with joint surveys, salvage, disposal, and the wider distressed cargo response while preserving the record needed for claims handling long after the physical operations had ended.
Shortly after departure from port, the vessel grounded in shallow water and developed a heavy list that caused lashings to fail and damaged vehicles within. We supported the Owners and their P&I insurers with discharge operations, vehicle surveys and the related claims handling record.
We have guided shippers, freight forwarders and receivers on correct loading, stowage and lashing in line with the IMO CSS Code, including direct coordination with lashing companies and stevedores.
We have investigated incidents where vessels arrived in port with collapsed stacks, containers lost overboard or both. Our findings have included poor heavy-weather avoidance decisions, main engine failures, lashing gear defects, damaged fittings and incorrect twist locks outside the approved cargo securing manual.
While steel coils, steel products and vehicles were being loaded in China, we remotely supported a P&I Club by identifying unsafe loading and stowage practices. Our guidance applied IMO CSS Code principles and Class Rules for non-homogeneous coil loading on tank tops to reduce catastrophic risk.
We regularly carry out pre-discharge and outturn surveys of steel cargoes to identify pre-shipment issues, stowage defects, water ingress, lashing concerns and tally discrepancies before cargo is released against the documents.
We investigated an alleged water ingress claim affecting a consignment of wood pellets and were able to prove that the damage was caused by ship's sweat rather than hatch leakage. The outcome materially strengthened the Owner's defence and confirmed that the vessel's cargo holds were weathertight.
We carry out stocktakes of silos and material stockpiles for local clients, using either point-cloud capture and 3D modelling or proven manual calculation methods depending on site conditions and feasibility.
Our survey attendance and document analysis established that alleged cargo damage did not occur at the subject port. The investigation provided the evidential basis needed to defend the claim position.
On instruction from P&I insurers, we investigated alleged damage to port fenders using site attendance, on-board inspection, document review, VHF communications and video footage. Our findings showed that most of the claimed damage was not caused by the assured vessel.
Before discharge in the UK, Receivers alleged soot damage to a consignment of brand-new SUVs. We attended on behalf of the vessel's P&I insurers, surveyed the vehicles, gathered samples and showed that the contamination occurred ashore before loading when wind carried soot from a nearby steel factory across the parked cars.
... and many more routine inspections and surveys worldwide.
