• What do you need it for?
• Inspection services at container loading
• Inspection services at container discharging
• Examples of company operation
• Company examples of container discharge/loading

The Latsert Inspection company has a vast experience in rendering surveyor services for containerized shipping in Latvia. Its extensive network of representative offices makes it possible for the Company to offer a full package of inspection services on all groups of commodities, including industrial products, food, agricultural products, rolled metal goods, chemical and petrochemical industry products, fertilizers, concrete, wood, and lumber, cotton, textile, and many other.

Involvement of surveyor company to control the process of container loading/discharge supplies the Customer with full information both on the process progress, and the state of the cargo. Reports and Certificates issued by Latsert Inspection company are accepted by all insurance companies. Any shortage of goods or damage in the process of transportation, discharge, or in other cases are recorded by inspectors and reflected in report, as well as proved by photographs. 

The Latsert Inspection staff involves high-quality employees having experience in companies like SGS, Control Union.

At present the containerized shipping is one of the main types of goods delivery to buyer. Basically any product represented on the market is shipped by means of containers.

The Latsert Inspection company offers a full range of services on control over container loading. The control program depends on the type of cargo loaded into container and includes the following:

Container study in terms of integrity (absence of perforation damages, tightness of door closing);

Container cleanness check and its suitability for shipping a definite type of cargo;

Coolant unit serviceability check (for refrigerator containers);

Control over the process of container loading;

Revealing the cargo failing to match the Specifications and its non-admission to loading unless relevant Customer’s instructions received;

Visual control of quality of loaded cargo;

Tally/weight control (for bulked cargo);

Sampling and laboratory analysis;

Container sealing;

Report (including photographic evidences) issue.

In order to protect Buyer interests and avoid the dispatch of goods failing to meet the standards of the Buyer’s country, Latsert Inspection company performs a pre-dispatch weight control.

The pre-dispatch control may be performed at manufacturer facilities, in ports, or other places of goods dispatch.

The Latsert Inspection offers a full range of services on control over container discharge. The control program depends on the type of cargo and includes the following:

Container study in terms of integrity (absence of perforation damages, tightness of door closing);

Seal availability and integrity check;

Thermogram taking (for refrigerator containers);

Inspection of cargo stacking after container unsealing and taking photographs of cargo stacking;

Control over the process of container unloading;

Tally/control over weighing of discharged goods;

Visual control of goods quality;

Sampling and laboratory analysis;

Taking photographs during the process of cargo discharge;

Issue of report containing all the data on container discharge + photo report.