From your first message to a report you can rely on
Six steps, in this order, every time. The order matters: half of what makes a survey useful is decided before the surveyor leaves the office.
Enquiry and scope
You send the vessel, the port and the window — by WhatsApp or email. We come back with the survey type, what we will and will not be able to see alongside, the surveyor's name, and a fixed fee.
Desk review before attendance
Class status and outstanding conditions, survey status, thickness measurement history, previous steel renewals, PSC record, and — for a pre-purchase — the last five to ten cargoes and the holds they were carried in. The surveyor arrives already knowing where to look.
Attendance
Hull and structure, ballast tanks and cargo spaces to the agreed priority, machinery, cargo gear, safety and pollution equipment, and the ship's own documentation. We photograph everything we report.
What can and cannot be tested
Main and auxiliary engines cannot be meaningfully tested alongside, and we will say so rather than imply otherwise. Anything else we ask the Master to demonstrate; where he declines, that goes in the report as a limitation, not a silence.
Cross-check against the record
Findings are read back against class records, thickness measurement reports and repair history. A finding that contradicts the paperwork is worth more than one that merely repeats it.
Report
Draft issued once attendance is complete, final on your comments. Findings ranked by consequence, photographs referenced to the finding, limitations stated openly, and a plain summary at the front for the person who will not read the rest.
What is in the report
Every Moim report carries the same structure, whatever the survey type — so a bank comparing three years of attendance, or a buyer comparing two candidate ships, is comparing like with like.
Summary and opinion — one page, written for a decision-maker.
Findings by system — ranked by consequence, each with a photograph reference and, where relevant, an indicative cost or repair route.
Limitations — what could not be inspected, and why.
Record cross-check — where our findings agree or disagree with class and the ship's own documentation.
Photographic annex — indexed, dated and captioned.
Ask for a redacted sample report
The fastest way to judge a surveyor is to read one thing he has written. We will send a redacted sample on request.