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Loading Survey

A loading survey ensures that cargo is loaded safely and according to the ship's capacity. It verifies that the weight and distribution of the cargo won't affect the ship's stability during the voyage.

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ON/OFF Hire Bunker & Condition Survey

This survey is done when a ship is rented (hired) or returned (off-hired). It checks the ship's fuel levels (bunkers) and overall condition to determine any damages or changes during the rental period.

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Iron ore loadings

This process involves loading iron ore onto ships, ensuring the cargo is properly loaded and evenly distributed to maintain the ship's balance and safety.

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Holds Cleanliness Survey

Before loading cargo, this survey checks that the ship's holds (cargo spaces) are clean and free from contamination that could damage the cargo or violate regulations.

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Draft Survey

A draft survey measures the ship's waterline before and after loading to calculate the weight of the cargo on board. It's a key method for verifying cargo quantity.

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Bunker Quantity Survey

This survey measures the amount of fuel (bunkers) on a ship to ensure accurate fuel usage and billing. It’s commonly done during chartering or refueling.

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SEATECH MARINE & CARGO SURVEYS

Seatech Marine & Cargo Surveys was founded in 1993, at Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil with the purpose of performing high quality services and attending exactly the specific needs of the clients with a reasonable and compatible price.

Seatech attends a wide range of services

being the Pre-loading (steel products / iron ore / fertilizers / grains), On/Off-Hire Bunkers and Conditions, Bunker Quantity, Hold’s Grain Cleanliness Condition and Draft the most requested surveys.

Strategically based in Vitória

Seatech can reach the ports of Tubarão, Praia Mole and Vitória within few minutes. Seatech owns four cars and a modern facility with first line equipment including computers, cameras and operative system, in order to well attend the services and in a quick and professional way.

Seatech also performs surveys all over the Brazilian territory.

Such as Acu Port, Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Itaguaí, Pecém, Suape, Barcarena, Vila do Conde, Itaqui, Manaus, Belém, Aratu, Paranagua, Rio Grande, São Francisco do Sul, etc.

Our staff is composed by qualified professionals with years of experience in the maritime market.

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Areas Attended

SEATECH operates at all Brazilian ports and select international locations, including the USA, Costa Rica, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Jamaica, Bahamas, and Chile. SEATECH provides survey services using its own staff or reliable local inspectors as needed.

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Steel Procucts

Claims involving steel cargoes are frequent and the result is substantial payments from P&I Clubs, therefore, ascertaining the pre-shipment condition of the cargo and subsequent remarking of Mate’s Receipts and clausing of the Bills of Lading became a very important part of the carrier’s obligations.

Pre-loading surveys are mostly required to be performed in cargoes of finished steel products (coils, wire rod in coils, plates and sheets, flats / square / angle bars, profiles, pipes / tubes and reinforcing bars) and also in unfinished steel products such as slabs and billets.

We start our attendance for Pre-Loading Survey at berthing time, verifying holds condition to receive the parcels, to inspect the hatch covers, hatch closing devices, ventilators, manholes covers, etc.

During Pre-Loading Survey, we are your eyes and ears at Port, ascertaining pre-shipment condition of cargo by checking it at stocked area, alongside the vessel and inside holds during complete loading operation.

Our attending surveyors examine the condition of cargo for rust, dust, physical damages (steel stripes broken/missing, wrapping torn, oil/grease stains indents, bents, scratches and telescopic effects, handling gear marks, etc), results of which are passed to Master and inserted in Mate’s Receipts accordingly.

Upon completion of Pre-Loading Survey, a complete survey report with photos and documents (Statement of Facts, Stowage Plan, Mate’s Receipt, Fumigation Certificate, Ship’s particulars, Crew list, etc) attached is issued, detailing the loading operation, stowage and lashing/securing of cargo.

Seatech Marine and Cargo Surveys has large experience in pre-loading surveys of steel products, being one of the most required services by our clients.

General Products

General products, just as, machineries, containers and trucks, are also required to be inspected, in order to check the cargo condition prior to load and prevent the vessel for any claim that may arise.

Seatech has inspected containers with fruits that suffered damages during the voyage and assisted the interested part to investigate the real cause of it. In these cases, temperature records are checked, the percentage of cargo damaged is analysed, as well as the condition of the fruits and the container is inspected.

ON/OFF Hire Condition Survey

This inspection is conducted to the vessel at the beginning and/or end of the chartering and aims at checking the overall condition of the vessel.

The on/off hire condition survey is an inspection of vessel’s holds, main deck, cargo working areas and external shell plating. It is performed in order to identify any damage present prior to the vessel going on/off hire.

By doing it repetitively for many years, our surveyors became experts in analysing a vessel. The eyes of an experienced professional inspect every bulkhead, ladder, pipe, corrugate, lower and upper hoppers, bilge, tank top plating, manhole, hatch coaming, hatch covers and many other structures.

Seatech Marine & Cargo Surveys start the attendances of on/off hire condition surveys at berthing time, before the commencement of loading operation, or, at the end of a discharging operation, in order to inspect the holds without cargo inside to be more precise.

Our company details the findings of the inspection in the Survey Report that includes the anomalies found, general particulars of the vessel, relevant documents and a photography list showing the actual condition of the vessel. Seatech works to issue the Survey Report within three days after the completion of inspection.

This survey is compared with the previous condition survey carried out to the vessel, in order to determine if new damage have occurred to the vessel from cargo operations and/or stevedores damage.

ON/OFF Hire Bunker Survey

The bunker survey is required in order to calculate the exact amount of bunkers on board at the time of vessel’s delivery/redelivery.

The vessel is delivered by the owner to the charterer, in case of On-Hire. At this time, usually, the Master issues a Delivery Certificates stating the place, time, parties involved and total amount of bunkers on board.

In case of redelivery, the vessel is redelivered by charterer to the owner by the end of the chartering (Off Hire), when it is issued the “Redelivery Certificate”.

The Surveyor carry out sounding of all bunkers tanks and performs corrections of soundings to vessel’s trim and heel to find out the volume in tanks. Than it is applied corrections for temperatures and specific gravity, in order to determine the actual quantity of bunkers on board at the time/place of survey. The Surveyor checks vessel’s consumption, as per perusal of engine log book and chartering details, to establish the amount of bunkers remaining on board at Delivery/Redelivery time.

Iron Lore Loadings

As stated in the IMSBC Code, when a concentrate or other cargo, which may liquefy (Group A), is to be loaded, some actions must be taken care, such as:

  • Shippers must issue a certificate of TML (Transportable Moisture Limit) recognized by the Competent Authority.
  • Shippers must issue a certificate of MC (Moisture Content) of the cargo loaded, under the correct sampling methods. The MC shall be kept less than the TML during loading operation / voyage.
  • Bilges wells shall be clean, dry and protected as appropriate to prevent ingress of cargo.

By checking the stockpiles, inspection the cargo holds before shipment, accompanying the shippers’ collecting samples method and laboratories analysis, performing continuous can tests on board and full time loading monitoring, we act as advisors, ensuring cargo satisfactory condition.

Seatech Marine and Cargo Surveys keeps an experienced surveyor on board during the shipment in order to prompt attend and assist the vessel’s command if something unusual happens.

We are in the opinion that our presence on board makes total difference to assure the loading is taken care under the international safety standards.

Holds Cleanliness Survey

The holds cleanliness condition survey is conducted to ensure the cargo holds condition before loading, ascertaining whether the holds are ready to load the nominated cargo or not.

Most of times, our attendance for holds cleanliness survey is requested for vessel’s scheduled to load grains or sensitive cargoes.

Upon receiving appointment, we hire boat service and grant authorization from local Port Authorities to access the vessel at Anchorage area to perform the holds cleanliness condition survey.

Our many concerns during hold cleanliness surveys are:

  • Make sure that all cargo holds are free from ANY previous cargo residues/vestiges and;
  • Free from loose rust, scale or paint. Painted surfaces must be properly applied and cured;
  • Special attention to dark stains on painting, gaps between frames, brackets and behind access ladders, pipes, manhole covers, etc;
  • Check for dry and clean condition;
  • Free from odours;
  • In all ways in a suitable condition, fit and safe to receive and preserve the intended cargo;
  • All bilge covers, access covers, tank-top covers should be inspected and properly secured;
  • Bilge wells should be clean and dry with pumps in good working order;
  • Tank-tops should be free from container fittings, pad eyes and protrusions;
  • Hatch covers must be demonstrably watertight with all seals and sealing faces in position and properly maintained;

Upon completion of holds cleanliness survey, our attending Surveyors issue a Field Survey Report approving of refuting vessel’s holds’ condition for loading intended cargo(es).

In case of refuting vessel’s holds, recommendations to vessel’s Command are made, in order to reach cleanliness condition to load intended cargo(es).

The Field Survey Report is sent to our client at same date of attendance aboard and a complete survey report including large volume of photos is issued on the next day.

Draft Survey

Seatech Marine & Cargo Surveys has large experience in performing draft surveys, as it is very required by our clients. We have acting different times on behalf of Owners, Charterers or any other interested party.

In the top of our priorities list, we have the quality of our services by using our own calibrated equipment, we assure that the findings are as accurate as possible.

We start our attendance for Draft Survey at berthing time, jointly reading vessel’s initial draught marks. After draught reading, our attending Surveyor obtain samples of water in which the vessel is floating at, the time at which the draught marks are read.

The total deductible weights on board and all draft marks readings are measured and calculated by us in accordance with data supplied by the vessel (hydrostatic and tanks calibration tables) prior to commencement of loading/discharging and on completion of loading/discharging. By using international guidelines, our Surveyors consider the water density of vessel’s gateway, changes on ballast quantities, consumption of vessel’s bunkers and fresh water, performing corrections proper corrections for trim, list and deflection (hog/sag).

At completion of survey, a Draft Survey Report is issued aboard and afterwards a complete Survey Report is sent to our clients, recording the full data and calculations used to obtain the cargo loaded/unloaded quantity.

Bunker Quantity Survey

The Bunker Quantity Survey is the supervision of the vessel’s bunkering. This service has big importance to the managers / operators in view that the same is one of the biggest contributor to the cost of operating a vessel.

Seatech offers impartial and independent quantity measurement inspection, confirming fuel delivery or reporting shortages.

Scope of Bunker Quantity Survey (BQS):

  • Initial/final sounding of the bunker tanker and receiving vessel, prior/after bunker stem.
  • Sampling of fuel stemmed and subsequent testing for density, viscosity and water content by means of a certified laboratory.
  • Detailed bunker survey reports confirming fuel delivery or reporting shortage.
  • Sampling documentation photographs as requested or permitted.

Seatech Surveyors act as advisors in case of fuel shortage or disputes, assisting vessel’s Command in issuing Letter of Protest and contacting Suppliers.

A detailed Survey Report is issued after the completion of operation stating the way the bunkering was carried out, as well as, the survey findings.

The 221B Survey

The 221B Survey, also known by Bunker Spot Survey, is the measurement of vessel’s bunkering figures at the time of the Survey.

It is not unusual to find more fuel oil on board than the quantities declared by the vessel on the log book. This way, Seatech Surveyors does its best in order to find hidden fuel oil on board.

We have act in cases that over than 50 MT of fuel oil was hidden and we could bring it back to the knowledge of vessel’s managers / operators. In many cases, the price of the hidden oils found is way higher than our service fees. This way, our Survey is paid by itself.