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Observater Surveys and Services Group · Tema · Ghana
From the seal to the stow to the interchange record, our container surveyors in Tema put independent eyes on the box at the points where through-carriage claims are decided, on one instruction, confirmed in writing before work begins.
Get a Surveyor Moving Email the InstructionA seal can lie three ways. An intact-looking seal covers three different crimes: short-stuffing at origin, substitution after pilferage, or re-sealing in transit. Physical examination and the count behind it name the one that happened.
The through claim spans two carriers and one relay. First carrier, terminal, second carrier: each will point at the others. Condition recorded at each interchange is what converts the pointing into liability.
The reefer ran, except when it did not. The reefer’s story needs three witnesses: the logger, the set point, and the pulp temperature. One witness can be coached; three cannot.
Tema moves boxes past many hands. Ghana’s container gateway, feeding the country and the burkina corridor, and every hand is a place the claim can be born.
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 container surveyors carry out all types of container surveys, seal surveys, and transshipment inspections at Tema Port, Ghana, through our own local surveyors at the port, with every attendance confirmed in writing before work begins: seal examination against substitution and re-sealing, interchange and on/off hire container condition, count and condition behind a broken seal, stuffing and stripping supervision, reefer temperature and cold chain surveys, and container damage surveys with repair scopes. Tema is Ghana’s container gateway, feeding the country and the Burkina corridor, and the box that relays here needs a witness. Also see: cargo surveyors in Tema.
Seal integrity work at Tema runs to a discipline: verify the number everywhere it is quoted, examine the seal for substitution and re-sealing, open under survey where instructed, and count and photograph the stow as found. The result places the loss at a point in the chain, which is what decides a through-carriage claim.
At a relay port the question is always the same: which leg? Our surveyors answer it with boundary records: condition at discharge, condition into the stack, condition on loading to the second vessel or the truck. With those three points fixed, a through-carriage claim at Tema becomes arithmetic instead of argument.
Consignees & receivers. The count behind a broken seal is the shortage claim’s only real evidence.
Forwarders & NVOCCs. Boundary condition records keep another party’s stuffing from becoming your liability.
Container lessors & owners. On/off hire condition and repair scopes in interchange terms, box by box.
Insurers & adjusters. Through-carriage claims apportioned on records instead of presumption.
Shipping lines & carriers. Interchange records move door-delivery claims off the leg that did not cause them.
Cargo owners & shippers. The stuffing record and the seal survey prove what actually entered the box.
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 box number, the location, and the problem, and you receive the surveyor’s name, the attendance time, and the fee in writing before anything starts.
Yes, and quickly matters: the count and stow behind the seal should be recorded before the cargo moves again. We open under survey, record as found, and issue the report the claim is built on.
Yes: condition recorded at the liability boundaries, timed and photographed, with damage stated in the terms interchange and lease agreements use.
The fee is a function of the scope: one box or a program, seal work, interchange, or damage. Both scope and fee are put in writing before anything starts.
Observater Surveys and Services Group are the container surveyors at Tema Port, Ghana — our own local surveyors at the port, attending at berth and anchorage on one instruction line, with the surveyor’s name, scope, and fee confirmed in writing before work begins.
Every matter is quoted on its scope before attendance — in writing, with the surveyor named. That way the instructing party knows the cost before the gangway, not after the invoice.
Before the doors open on anything disputed: seals verified and photographed first, condition recorded as found, and devanning or cross-stuffing supervised so custody never blurs.
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.
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Half of cargo disputes end aboard: hatch covers, hold condition, the on-hire record. The marine desk at Tema attends the vessel side of the same call — same file, same standard, no handover.
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