Iqube

IQube Company offers the following services: quality and quantity control of different types of cargo and survey services all over the world. The head office of our company is situated in Saint-Petersburg, but we have opened offices and representative offices in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Novorossiysk in a short period of time, and now we are able to work at more and more places. Having wide connections with partner survey companies, we have a great opportunity to render services in all main world ports and cities.

In Europe, Latin America, North America, South-East Asia and China - almost everywhere we are ready to implement knowledge, experience and qualification of our independent experts and consultants.

The personnel of our company has a many years' experience, and we have earned th ...e reputation of a reliable company, so that our quality and quantity certificates are hailed and accepted implicitly by such enterprises as Insurance companies, Banks, International Trade companies and Transport Logistics companies.Among our clients there are leading insurance companies, which requires not only a simple quality control, but serious loss investigations, claim settlements, risk *yday practice and deep insight of examination give us an opportunity to declare our personnel's professionalism and qualification as specialists, involved with claim work and questions of loss settlement.

At the present time our office in Saint-Petersburg coordinates inspections throughout Russia and CIS. We perform our services as per Customers' orders in many cities of Russia: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Vyborg, Cherepovets, Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Murmansk, Rostov, Samara, Novorossiysk, Azov, Nakhodka, Vladivostok, Vostochnyi, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk etc.

Through the network of our correspondents and subcontractors we also fulfill our clients' orders abroad - in European countries, as well as in South-East Asia, Northern and Southern America. We would like to emphasize our great desire to satisfy fully our clients' demands using acquired knowledge and experience. Our professional specialists are ready to prove their know-how at any place and time.

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What for do you need an independent surveyor?

A surveyor - is a person, who, being independent, is engaged with thorough and detailed inspections, examinations, checkup, fixation of presence or lack of some fact, as well as giving recommendations in required sphere by orders of physical or juridical person.

A surveyor is a specialist, who investigates conditions of insurance (but not only) cases (harm to health; damage or loss of property, cargo as a result of fire, accident, flood, casualty etc.). A surveyor consults cargo owners and carriers; coordinates examination procedure; fixes damages, inspects (collects facts and evidences to state the reasons of damageaccident); studies documents, certificates; question witnesses; analyzes facts.

One of the numerous survey services is certification procedure. After determination of vessel or cargo condition, a surveyor issues a certificate with his signature, in which he verifies that, for example, the cargo is packed and stowed in holds according to present international and national requirements, and consequently, is safe for the vessel and will not be damaged during carriage. It is made on behalf both of a carrier to free from responsibility for cargo damage; and on behalf of a cargo owner of insurer in order to avoid extra expenses.

It is natural, that while shipping cargoes all participating parties are interested in confirmation of their obligations' compliance. The Shipper and the Receiver should be sure that the cargo is delivered in the very condition as it is stated in the contract; and the carrier should be sure that the quality of cargo has not changed during shipping. For these purposes the independent party usually carries out sampling at different stages of shipping (loading, transshipment, discharge). The sampling is made according to accepted or stipulated technology with the following storage of the samples up to one year.

Also, the independent party analyzes samples to state the quality of them and to compare it with contract conditions. Moreover, a surveyor will provide you full information about cargo quality and quantity at EVERY stage of its shipping, and will give you an opportunity to get promptly a professional consultation of a specialist how to minimize incipient losses.

In any lawsuit, an independent surveyor certificate serves as unchallengeable evidence, which has an exceptional legal effect. It is a survey certificate you can rely on, for example, during your disputes in *out a competently made certificate of independent survey company you claim will not be considered as justified enough, and it will be more difficult for you to prove your case.

The price of survey services is not very big compared with the price of cargo; however a surveyor makes it possible for you to secure your business against the appearance of contractors' baseless claims. Read more