As per Invest India, an investment promotion agency, the maritime transport handles around 70 percent of India’s trade in value terms. To promote India's shipping and port industry further, the government has also introduced various fiscal and non fiscal incentives. Moreover, with multiple crucial activities like trading of existing ships, incorporation of new vessels and also the overall surge in number of freights, the maritime industry in India is witnessing an all round growth.
With this surge, certification, maintenance, and a complete assessment of the ships have become increasingly important ensure their continuous operability. As a result, the service delivered by the marine survey and consultancy firms has become critical to the maritime sector. “Despite the fact that there are several competitors in this market, there is a noteworthy lack in the quality of work, quality of reporting, and professionalism”, states, Yash Modi, Naval Architect & Marine Engineer, and a Partner at UK Marine India Surveyors.
UK Marine India Surveyors is an independent marine, offshore and engineering survey and consultancy organization that specializes in delivering competent, and highly technical marine and cargo surveys, inspections, certifications and consultancy services to the maritime industry.
“At UK Marine, we excel in providing a comprehensive survey and report to our clients while adhering to the international code of standards and working practices. We have precisely framed reporting formats like daily reporting formats, final reporting format, and
more, which helps us to assure absolute clarity. Furthermore, the way we look at things from the engineering point of view, the navigation or the deck point of view, and from the structural point of view, is very rarely done by the players in themarket", adds Yash.
Experienced team catering multiple segments
The partners of UK Marine have been the main driving factor propelling the firm's growth. Currently, it is composed of Master Mariners, Marine Engineers and Naval Architects who bring together a wealth of sea-going as well as design, classification, technical, surveying, port captaincy and consultancy experience.
“We cover the full aspect of marine surveys like crucial lifting of high value project cargos, the seaworthiness in terms of deck, machinery and navigation side, as well as the commercial interests of stakeholders such as owners, despondent owners and charterers. We also work very closely with underwriters such as P&I clubs. Moreover, our team mainly consists of partners, who come from different fields of the shipping industry; thereby helping us to deliver a one-stop solution to our clients. The wealth of experience, that our team carries, and the combination of qualification and expertise we have is unmatched in India", pointed out Yash.
At UK Marine, we excel in providing a comprehensive survey and report to our clients while adhering to the international code of standards and working practices
Today, UK Marine Surveyors offers its surveys and inspection solutions to different clients such as ship owners, charterers, cargo shippers/receivers, statutory bodies, insurance companies, flag states, classification societies and port authorities. The firm also has naval architecture and maritime consultants, who deliver drawings, designs and plans for shipbuilding, repairing, and heavy lifting.
“We also perform extensive surveys for P&I clubs. In addition, we perform pre-purchase inspections, marine warranty surveys, technical audits and inspections, port captaincy jobs, project cargo loading supervision, and more", mentioned Yash.
The future roadmap
With an eye to continue with the quality of the work, UK Marine Surveyors aims to optimize its existing processes and procedures. The firm is coming up with new digital survey reporting tools and processes automation of a few key aspects to eliminate any probability of human errors in order to ensure peace of mind for our clients located overseas.
On the other hand, UK Marine Surveyors are getting associated with other maritime bodies and global companies to make the whole industry much more sustainable in terms of having cost effective high quality services.
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