Danube Survey Company conducts cargo inspection services of industrial, agricultural, foodstuff from all commodity groups and sub-groups; of raw materials and materials; of individual commodity units and entire lots, thus meeting the needs of a wide range of customers.
The purpose of cargo inspection services is to provide timely, accurate, competent and unprejudiced information of the quantity / quality of goods and cargos and their compliance / incompliance with the terms of the trade transaction, of the normative, technical and other requirements, thereby protecting the interests of clients, preventing / resolving commercial disputes and preventing from financial losses.
The documented results of the cargo inspection activity are recognized by private, departmental, state, customs, investigative and judicial authorities and used with probative force in resolving disputes / on good will, arbitration, judicial /, for making recommendations, claims and complaints.
Cargo inspection services by as, are performed both for individual commodity units and for small consignments, as well as on large consignments delivered by river and sea vessels, trains, trucks; containers.
Cargo inspection services by as, are performed for consignments in store, during storage and / or during expediting and loading / unloading activities.
More specifically Danube Survey Company performs cargo inspection services in the following directions:
QUALITY CARGO INSPECTION:
We perform Quality inspection services as per methodology and indicators in accordance with :
- Characteristics specific to the goods;
- Good's condition at the time of the inspection;
- Regulatory and technical requirements and the requirements of corporate, national and international standards;
- Regulations in the sales contracts
Through performing Quality inspection services we are measuring , examining or estimating in one or more characteristics of the goods and are comparing to the requirements set for them.
The Documented expert conclusions provide to clients information about: actual condition of the goods being controlled, established imperfections and deviations; reasons for their occurrence, recommendations for their restriction and remedy, they serve for making claims when implementing sales contracts.
Depending on the purpose of the inspection, the quality is estimated as per qualitative, quantitative or alternative indicator and giving conclusion for class of quality , for compliance with chemical, physical-chemical, mechanical and other indicators; for the suitability of the commodity unit and/or consignment.
In this sense Danube Survey Company performs quality cargo inspection in the following directions:
- Quality inspection of raw materials and materials input in production;
- Quality inspection in the production process – of preforms, semi-finished products, for establishing compliance / incompliance with the parameters of the technical assignment in separate critic points of the production process;
- Qualification of ready products for the needs of producers and traders;
- Quality inspections of commodities for the needs of the trade deal – for establishing compliance with the contractual requirements and protection of the interests of traders in case of incompliances;
- Sampling and development of average /representative/ samples – as an element of the quality inspection, the service applies in cases when the conclusion on the quality of the consignment being controlled is formulated as per results of making laboratory tests;
- Instrumental testing for express analysis of the indicators : moisture, density, temperature, grain size, radiation, etc. made on the place of loading / discharging of consignments
- Organoleptic analysis and evaluation: performed for evaluation of the quality indicators: appearance, consistency, color, smell, taste, construction, cut surface, apparent and hidden defects, uniformity per consignment, etc.;
- Grain size analysis;
- Laboratory testing of chemical, physical-chemical, mechanical, functional indicators
QUANTITY CARGO INSPECTION:
Danube Survey Company Ltd. performs Quantity cargo inspection of general, bulk, liquid cargoes
Quantity cargo inspections by as performed of consignments, delivered by river and sea vessels, containers, trucks, train compositions, also of consignments stored in warehouses, cisterns, silos, tanks etc., during loading and unloading works and expediting or storing the commodities.
The documents issued provide information to the clients about the quantity of the cargo being controlled, the compliance / incompliance with the statements in the loading accompanying and warehouse documents, sales contracts which are used for solving / preventing trade disputes, analyzing the reasons for registered difference, making claims to partners.
Danube Survey Company performs quantity control in the following directions:
- Draft survey – of river and sea vessels;
- Ullage survey;
- BQS;
- Determining the quantity of bulks as per volume method;
- Measurement by means of a flowmeter, electronic scales;
- Theoretical determination of mass by taking into account specific density and linear dimensions for volume calculation;
- Consignment weight determination by taking marking data and counting of packages.
The accuracy of results of services being carried out on the quantity cargo inspection has confirmed Danube Survey Company Ltd. as a recommended control organization for performing arbitration measurements as well as upon measurements assigned by investigation and judicial authorities.