Today, inspection agencies are essential for maintaining quality standards across industries through independent evaluations of products, processes, and services. They ensure compliance with regulations, industry standards, and customer specifications, enhancing safety, reliability, and performance. However, identifying defects and risks can be only ensured by partnering with a competent agency which can help businesses proactively address issues, avoiding recalls and legal liabilities.
This is where Times Marine Services (TMSPL) comes into the force. The company is an independent inspection agency providing comprehensive services in inspection, sampling, and analysis of coal, coke, pet coke, iron ore, barite, sand, marine cargo, steel scrap, limestone, and gypsum. TMSPL is committed to delivering quality and reliable analysis results to its customers while ensuring a continuous and sustainable growth.
The company has a dedicated team of surveyors, samplers, inspectors, and chemists, all of whom are highly trained and experienced professionals in the fields of marine cargo inspection, and the sampling and analysis of coal, coke and other materials. This expertise ensures that TMSPL consistently meets the highest standards of service and customer satisfaction.
The company offers a whole gamut of services with respect to inspection, sampling and analysis of coal, coke, met coke, pet coke, charcoal, briquettes, sand, iron ore, barite, limestone, gypsum, limestone, fertilizer supervision, collateral management in the ports of Krishnapatnam, Tuticorin, Karaikal, Chennai/Ennore, Paradip, Haldia, Kakinada, Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, and Mangalore. Additionally, TMSPL has expanded across India with branch and associate offices nationwide.
Ensuring Utmost Quality Standards
“We are ISO 9001:2015 accredited Inspection Services, with Coal & Coke Sampling included in our scope of accreditation. “Our laboratory is equipped with advanced instruments like the Elementar CHNS Analyser, Parr bomb Calorimeter, precision balances, and other state-of-the-art equipment,” states M. Mani, Managing Director at TMSPL.
“Our expert team, including chemists, lab technicians, samplers, and managers, is well-trained and experienced, providing us with a market edge. We also deploy staff to client labs and factories as needed. We have the resources to continuously analyze samples monthly at each location, supporting our ongoing growth,” he adds.
Furthermore, all the TMSPL’s employees are up to date with respect to ever-changing quality policies so as to ensure service deliverability excellence. All the inspection, sampling, testing are carried out in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015/ ISO 14001:2015/ISO 45001:2018/ Chemical Parameters of Coal, Coke, Iron Ore, Barites are in NABL Scope. The company’s accurate and timely reports have been supporting clients across various industry sectors, ensuring compliance with the latest quality standards.
Offering a Holistic Service Deliverability
For instance, the marine surveys inspections, TMSPL offers a wide range of services within the maritime sector with the best combination of proven technical resources & experts in a comprehensive manner to certify the quality & quantity of cargo and assess the condition of the vessels. Additionally, the company is known in the market for its whole gamut of services which include Draught Survey, Supervision of Loading & Unloading, Tally Supervision, Supervision of Cargo Stowage, Supervision of Weighment, Supervision of Damage Cargo, On Hire/ Off Hire Surveys, Hatch Inspection, Pre-Purchase/Inspection of Vessels, Damage Inspection, Container Inspection, Cargo Damage Surveys, and Supervision of bulk commodities during shipment/discharge.
“We are continually improving by performing Inspection, Testing and Sampling by upgrading through latest test methods, standards to achieve the high level of accuracy results and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, the company's objective is that to achieve Test Results that are always accurate with lowest Turn Around Time (TAT) and to achieve the Zero Complaint in customer feedback services,” concludes M. Mani.
