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Observater Surveys and Services Group · Tema · Ghana
From the first survey to the final settlement, our team in Tema handles the whole claim: damage investigated while the evidence exists, quantum measured rather than accepted, and the file built in the form underwriters, clubs, and tribunals act on.
Get a Surveyor Moving Email the InstructionThe evidence has a shelf life of days. Damage does not wait: wet spreads, spillage compounds, custody dissolves. The evidence gathered immediately is the entire claim; everything later is reconstruction.
The protest not issued is the claim not made. Alongside, a letter of protest binds the record. After the vessel sails, it is just correspondence.
Quantum claimed is not quantum owed. The claimant counts first, and generously. Independent measurement returns the claim to its true size, which speeds the honest ones and starves the inflated ones.
Tema multiplies the hands on the cargo. Between the hatch, the terminal, the shed, and the gate at Tema, custody changes again and again. The survey that records condition at each exchange is the one that puts the loss on the right party.
One matter at a port rarely travels alone. Our desks below stand at the same quay, on the same instruction line — choose the unit your matter needs.
Our highly trained surveyors and claims handlers carry out all types of cargo damage surveys, cargo claims investigations, and recovery support at Tema Port, Ghana, through our own local surveyors at the port, with every attendance confirmed in writing before work begins: wet damage, physical and handling damage, contamination, infestation, shortage and pilferage, temperature and cold chain failures, and the P&I cargo surveys that measure a claim before it is paid. Findings reach the instructing party first, and the file reads the same as from any port we serve. Also see: cargo surveyors in Tema.
When damage appears at Tema, the questions are always the same: what caused it, when, in whose custody, and to what quantity. Our surveyors answer all four while the answers still exist, with segregation ordered to cap the loss, silver nitrate and laboratory sampling where seawater or contamination is alleged, and every finding photographed, timed, and placed.
From survey to settlement, the claim stays with one team in Tema: evidence assembled to the adjusters’ standard, quantum fixed by count and value rather than assertion, liability placed on the leg the evidence supports, and the recovery pursued until it pays or the honest answer is that it will not. Either way, the instructing party knows where they stand, in writing.
Damage does not respect cargo categories, and neither do we: every class above is attended at Tema on the same instruction, each with the survey discipline its failures demand, because the claim you cannot prove is the loss you keep.
Cargo insurers & underwriters. Quantum counted independently: pay what is owed, recover what is not.
P&I clubs & carriers. The inflated claim meets the count; the honest claim meets fast settlement.
Forwarders & transporters. Custody traced puts the loss on the leg that caused it, and off everyone else.
Lawyers & recovery agents. A file built in the first days is the recovery’s entire ammunition.
Cargo owners & receivers. The party who already paid should not also pay for missing evidence: the survey is their proof.
Shippers & exporters. Cause fixed at destination protects the seller from damage born after the risk passed.
Named surveyor, scope in writing. Before anything starts you know who attends, when, and exactly what they will do, on paper.
The fee agreed first. The fee is put in writing before work begins, so the decision is made with the numbers in front of you.
One interest per matter. If we act for the other side in your dispute, we tell you and decline. Independence is the product.
Work starts on your go-ahead. Nothing begins until you confirm in writing, findings reach you first, and we answer 24/7.
Attendance runs through our own local surveyors at the port, with every attendance confirmed in writing before work begins: send the cargo, the location, and the problem, and you receive the surveyor’s name, the attendance time, and the fee in writing before anything starts. With damage, every day of delay is evidence lost.
Examination and photographs for cause and nature, count and weight for extent, custody traced through the documents, sound cargo separated to cap the loss, and the full evidence attached to a report you read before anyone else.
Yes, end to end: file built to the adjusters’ standard, claim presented, recovery pursued, with one interest per matter throughout.
The fee depends on the scope: the cargo, the attendances, the sampling needed. Both scope and fee are put in writing before anything starts, and they are small against a claim that fails for missing evidence.
Observater Surveys and Services Group. Our cargo claims surveyors attend at Tema Port, Ghana through the group’s own presence at the port — instructed by email, confirmed in writing, and reporting to the instructing party first.
On scope, plainly quoted: describe the vessel, the cargo or operation, and the timing, and the desk returns the surveyor’s name, the scope, and the fee in writing before anyone boards. Nothing begins until the figure is agreed.
Photographs as found, quantities counted rather than estimated, cause tied to a documented event, and quantum that survives scrutiny — assembled by surveyors who expect the other side to read every line.
The figure taken today settles the argument that comes later
Whoever holds the cargo pays for what nobody counted. Whoever ships it defends a price from an ocean away. Whoever runs the vessel settles on the recorded figure, whoever insures it pays what the evidence supports, and whoever financed it needs the security to be real. From whichever seat you instruct, send the vessel, the cargo, or the dispute, and who attends, when, and at what fee comes back in writing before work starts. One interest per matter: we act for your side only, and you read the findings first.
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Observater Surveys and Services Group · ops@observater.com · All attendances are performed under our standard terms of business, available on request. Also see: Cargo Surveyors in Tema · Marine Surveyors in Tema · Bunker Surveyors in Tema.
From the Observater Desk
Every call at Tema moves two commodities: the cargo on the quay and the fuel in the tanks. The bunker desk closes the second one with independent soundings, sealed samples, and a certified figure — on the same instruction line as the matter that brought you here.
Bunker surveyors in TemaInstruct the desk
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