Surveyor - a word that not everyone knows the Russian businessman.We can say that in the Russian language it is synonymous with the word "expert".Institute of Surveyors has long operated in the trading system, commodity production and transport of goods from the sender to the recipient.And this process goes through all the links in the transport chain.Survey services - it is the finding of the nature and size of the damage to the goods, as well as the determination of the quantity and quality of goods, conveyances or their compliance with the contract terms.In some cases, the expert is required to establish the circumstances of the incident and to restore the full picture of events.
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transport process is a chain of multiple units.Besides the main three - the recipient, sender and the carrier, and it includes a number of additional - storage, freight forwarders, charterer, insurer, producers, waterworks.The need for assessing the transport of goods may occur at any stage of transportation.And very often the case that the penalty for damages bears not guilty party process.To identify the responsible for the losses and there survey services.This series of actions carried out by an independent expert for the purpose of installation, as a source of cash losses and causes of this event.
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Overseas insurance companies, as well as arbitration and judicial practice have long enjoyed the services of surveyors.And I am sure that they are independent and can not downplay or exaggerate losses.
Most likely, in our country, so would never have appeared survey services.It was the initiative of foreign partners whose interests clashed with Russian marine borders.The first Russian survey company several years to prove their right to exist.Russian manufacturers and traders for a long time could not understand the importance of such services.Understanding their importance came from the analysis of the first case in foreign courts.Then it became clear that to win in the need to support their own arguments by any evidence.
Draft survey
All participants in the transportation process particularly emphasize the importance of determining the amount of cargo.Piece cargoes easily counted, but with the massive problem.Weighing scales in special containers, trucks, cars and so on. N., Requires a lot of time and considerable effort.Each weigh-in is likely the errors that accumulate over time, providing unfair participants of the transaction opportunity for fraud.To ensure the integrity of such operations and the need to provide survey services.
There is a technology that allows to eliminate cheating in weighing.It's called "draft surveys."Its meaning is that the ship itself is weighed before and after loading.The weight of the load is determined with an accuracy of 0.1 percent.
Cargo safety
This is one of the most common reasons why the parties to enter into a contract of transport process of survey services.To avoid unauthorized access to the load, it is necessary to set the seal on the trailers, containers, holds, etc.But it is important not so much the presence of seals, as the accuracy of their performances.A professional can perform this procedure only independent surveyor.At the final stage of delivery he personally ascertained the safety seals.
Certification
In many companies, this procedure is included in the survey services.This preparation of the expert's signed certificate, in which he certifies that such cargo is fixed and stowed in accordance with international standards.Therefore, it is completely safe for the ship and not be damaged during the carriage by sea.All this is done in the interests of the insurer (or cargo) to avoid excessive costs and in the interests of the carrier for the release of liability for the integrity of Georgia.
