Pre-purchase
Steel, machinery, class records and the yard history behind them — assembled while the deal is still reversible.
Independent Marine Surveyors · Korea & Japan
Someone has to stand on that deck and tell you the truth
Moim Consulting is an independent marine survey practice based in Busan, South Korea. We attend ships in Korean and Japanese ports, yards and anchorages for buyers, P&I clubs, banks and charterers — pre-purchase and condition surveys, sale docking supervision, on-hire and draft surveys, port captaincy and marine expediting.
- Coverage
- Korea & Japan
- Languages
- EN · KO · JA
- +82 10 6889 7818
- Reply to enquiries
- Same working day
At a glance
Moim Consulting in one table
Everything a broker, an underwriter or a credit committee usually asks before instructing a surveyor.
| Practice | Moim Consulting — independent marine surveyors and inspection consultants |
|---|---|
| Based | Busan, Republic of Korea |
| Countries covered | South Korea and Japan, as resident coverage. Elsewhere in Asia by arrangement. |
| Services | Pre-purchase surveys · P&I condition surveys · Sale dockings, supervision & superintendency · Owner fleet audits & ISM audits · Bank asset monitoring · On-hire & off-hire surveys · Draft surveys · Port captaincy · Marine expeditor services · Towage approvals · Warranty surveys · Classification history checks · Naval architecture & design · Marine consultancy |
| Vessel types | Bulk carriers, tankers, chemical and gas carriers, container, general cargo, ro-ro and offshore support |
| Working languages | English, Korean, Japanese |
| +82 10 6889 7818 (wa.me/821068897818) | |
| moim@moimconsulting.com |
01 / Why we get called
Four people ring a surveyor, and they want four different things
A buyer wants to know what the ship will cost him after he owns it. An underwriter wants to know what he is being asked to carry. A bank wants to know the asset is still there. A charterer wants the condition fixed in writing and the ship out of the port. We write for whichever one of them instructed us.
Buyers & owners
P&I & insurers
Condition & warranty
Entry condition surveys, warranty attendance and towage approvals, in the format clubs and underwriters expect.
Banks & lessors
Asset monitoring
Periodic attendance on mortgaged and leased tonnage, with a consistent record you can compare year on year.
Charterers & operators
Port captaincy
A port captain on the berth and an expeditor pushing the call, plus on/off-hire, bunker and draft surveys.
02 / The North Asia advantage
Ulsan on Thursday, Imabari next week. We are already there.
Korea and Japan build, repair and trade a large share of the world's tonnage — and are where a foreign principal has the least visibility.
Between them the two countries hold the newbuilding berths, the drydocks and much of the second-hand tonnage your surveyor needs to reach. Sending one from Europe or Singapore costs two days and a fare before anyone opens a manhole — and a principal who covers Korea from Tokyo, or Japan from Busan, is still flying.
We cover both. An hour from Busan's repair yards, a morning from Ulsan, Geoje, Gwangyang, Masan and Tongyeong; and across the Strait to the Seto Inland Sea yards, Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay and Kyushu.
Proximity is not just cheaper. It means attending at short notice on a berth window that will not wait, sitting through a drydock rather than visiting it, and speaking to the yard, the Class surveyor and the Master in the language each of them works in — Korean, Japanese and English.
Our surveyors are seagoing officers and engineers by background, not office inspectors.
Instructing us
Tell us the ship, the port and the date
That is usually enough for us to come back with a scope, a fee and a surveyor's name the same working day. WhatsApp is fastest — it reaches the duty surveyor, not an inbox.