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Observater Surveys and Services Group · Tema · Ghana
Our marine surveyors in Tema cover the vessel’s call end to end: vessel condition surveys, on-hire and off-hire surveys, holds and hatch cover inspections, hull and machinery damage surveys, casualty attendance, P&I matters, and bunker surveys, with the attendance confirmed in writing before work begins.
Insurers, importers, shippers, P&I clubs, charterers, lines, banks, and forwarders instruct the same group, on the same rule: one interest per matter.
Get a Surveyor Moving Email the InstructionRedelivery becomes a memory contest. Without the on-hire record, the off-hire argument is two recollections and a bill. The survey is the referee hired in advance.
The evidence departs with the tide. Groundings, contacts, and machinery failures leave their facts on board, briefly. What the first attendance captures is all the file will ever hold.
Fit to load is discovered too late. Holds found wet, dirty, or damaged after the cargo is booked cost laytime, rejection, and claims. The pre-loading inspection finds it while repair is cheap.
Tema has its own way of testing a vessel. Cocoa out of Tema is priced on moisture, count, and defects months after the ship sails. Sealed splits drawn at loading are the only answer that survives the distance.
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 marine surveyors carry out all types of marine surveys, ship surveys, and vessel inspections at Tema Port, Ghana, through our own local surveyors at the port, with every attendance confirmed in writing before work begins. Tema handles most of Ghana’s trade: containers, rice, frozen fish, and clinker inbound, cocoa and aluminium outbound, and the corridor to Burkina Faso behind it. One instruction covers the vessel’s call, and the report reads the same as the file from any port we serve. Also see: cargo surveyors in Tema and our Ghana.
Charters open and close on condition, and the record should be made while both sides can still walk the ship. At Tema we attend on-hire and off-hire surveys with the vessel recorded compartment by compartment: hull, decks, holds, hatch covers, equipment, existing damage photographed and listed, bunkers established in the same visit. Delivery and redelivery then compare against a document, not a memory. Before loading, holds and hatch cover inspections confirm the spaces clean, dry, and fit for the booked cargo while correction is still possible.
Damage at or off Tema starts a clock: the vessel sails and the evidence sails with it. Our hull and machinery surveyors investigate cause, nature, and extent for owners and underwriters, in the form adjusters and average agreements use, and casualty attendance boards while the facts are still aboard. P&I work runs impartial, one interest per matter, first findings shared quickly. Bunker surveys attend delivery and redelivery, the two moments fuel is paid for, with independent soundings and the delivery note checked against what was measured.
Shipowners & managers. Delivery and redelivery condition on record, casualty evidence secured early, repair scopes in the form underwriters accept.
Charterers & operators. On/off hire with bunkers in the same attendance, and holds confirmed clean, dry, and fit before cargo commits.
P&I clubs & correspondents. One appointment per matter, impartial, first findings shared quickly.
H&M underwriters & adjusters. Cause, nature, and extent established while the evidence is aboard, stated as adjusters and average agreements require.
Bunker buyers & suppliers. Independent soundings at delivery and redelivery, and the delivery note verified against measurement.
Lawyers & claims teams. Photographs, measurements, and records tied to time and place: a vessel file built for the argument ahead.
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, and the findings reach you first, in confidence. We answer 24/7.
“The on-hire record settled the redelivery argument in one phone call. Without it we would still be arguing.”Vessel operator, Tema
“Holds were inspected before the cocoa loading and passed. No rejection at the berth, no lost laycan.”Chartering manager, Tema
“First findings arrived the same evening and quantum was counted, not accepted. The claim settled at the evidence.”P&I correspondent, Tema
Send the vessel and the matter: attendance in Tema runs through our own local surveyors at the port, with every attendance confirmed in writing before work begins, and the who, when, and basis reach you in writing before work begins.
Scope sets the fee: the vessel, the matter, the attendances required. Scope and fee come back in writing before work begins, so you decide on numbers, not estimates.
We do: discharge and tally, draft surveys, cargo damage, and claims are handled with our cargo surveyors in Tema.
It records the vessel’s condition at an agreed point: hull, decks, holds, hatch covers, machinery, and equipment examined and photographed, bunkers where instructed, and a report with the evidence attached, to the instructing party first.
Observater Surveys and Services Group. Our marine 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.
Whatever the vessel question is: condition at on-hire or off-hire, holds and hatch covers with testing on request, damage after contact or weather, P&I matters, and casualty attendance — boarded at berth or anchorage and reported to the instructing party first.
Evidence is cheap while it exists, and priceless once it is gone
Send the vessel, the consignment, or the problem: the who, when, and on-what-basis comes back in writing before anything begins.
Get a Surveyor Moving Email the InstructionThe same group, the same report standard, along the same trade routes: Bunker surveyors in Tema · Marine surveyors in Takoradi · Marine surveyors in Lomé · Marine surveyors in Abidjan · Marine surveyors in Lagos.
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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 · Ghana · Nigeria.
From the Observater Desk
Whatever the vessel question, the cargo below has its own: outturn against the manifest, tally at the hook, condition as found, and the claims file that follows. The cargo desk at Tema answers it from the same practice, one instruction covering both.
Cargo surveyors in TemaInstruct the desk
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