Cargo

   SAMS AMS® Surveyors provide a professionally prepared report that are accepted by Cargo Receivers, Cargo Terminals, P&I Clubs, Shipping Companies and Insurance companies, citing referenced IMO, ISO, etc. standards in the survey.
Gary’s Marine Surveys, service provider to MTS, since its inception, has served as the eyes and ears to our customers. Operating with our decades of experience and under the customer’s instructions we are able to ensure safe handling of their cargo regardless the type. With our trained staff we are able to monitor bulk cargo movements around the clock.

   Using our advancements in technology, we are able to report remotely into our state of the art real time data base, where we can have information available for our customers in near real time. The MTS A.C.E system, in conjunction with our Customer Connect Portal, allows customers to view certain aspects of any job we represent them on through the modern conveniences of a smart phones or tablets.

VESSEL DRAFT SURVEYS

   We have a team of experienced and certified Vessel Draft Surveyors. With customer approval, we will place multiple personnel on the vessel to perform this process as there are so many moving parts involved in a standard vessel draft survey. Our goal is accuracy, independent of the vessel and regardless of the master or chief officer’s findings. We are not there for the vessel, but instead, to ensure our customers are represented at the highest degree of accountability.

   Upon nomination of a bulk vessel, we have an entire team assigned to that vessel and they become the customer’s common ground between all matters associated with the vessel transfer. We communicate with the ship’s agent and stevedore’s personnel prior to the arrival of the nominated vessel, as to the berth availability and availability of discharging equipment in order to provide a non-biased and fair assessment of all ETAs and berthing information.

   Just prior to the vessel arrival, we can perform onsite inspections of the discharge equipment to determine their suitability to handle your product and to ensure your best interests are safe guarded. Members of our trained staff will be on board to communicate daily with you relative to the cargo transfer’s progress and/or problems incurred. Assigned surveyors will keep a close eye on the cargo quality; alerting you to any possible contaminated, damaged, distressed, or out of the ordinary cargo. If any cargo is found not to be of sound quality, we will advise our customer and then assist the Stevedores in proficiently segregating and removing said cargo as well as overseeing placement of this cargo.

   All records of events are kept updated in real time and made available to customers upon request. We will prepare a discharge report and time sheet, and provide any other services which will assist in the prompt and orderly transfer of the cargo. We have a team of employees that can perform a multitude of services including displacement surveys on barges, vessels, as well as a full office staff that has a combined total of 100+ years of experience in the industry.

   With the use of our advanced, industry leading technology and real time reporting system we are able to report tonnages & conditions to the customer in order to create cost and shipping efficiencies.

   Because Weight Certificates and subsequently payments are processed only after the surveyor issues the Report, a cargo surveyor holds a prestigious position and is held in the highest regard in the shipping industry. As such, our marine cargo surveyors are highly qualified and technically trained to cutting edge proficiency.