Our shipping experts provide consultancy advice, and provide reports on all aspects of commercial shipping which includes, though not limited to, the following:
Suitability vessels for particular trades.
Economics of ship operations with regard to choice flags of registration, class, nationality crews.
- Technical capability vessels of various categories, tonnage and vintage.
- Vessel assessment and repairs with costs, dry docking to bring vessel to good trading condition.
- Feasibility and economics of operating vessels on particular trades.
- Calculation of estimated operating costs of owner’s items: crew, insurance, stores, repair & maintenance, owner’s communication, flag dues, managers’ fees, superintendent if hired, legal expenses.
- Calculation of commercial operation costs: charter hire, fuel costs, charterer’s communication, port / stevedores, port agency, port captain if hired.
- Legal advice and arbitration services.
- Dealing with class, insurance, surveyors, port state, surveys, ship certificates and documentation.
- Providing services of port captain to attend owner’s or charterer’s interests during port call.