transport
Adjustment in different branches of transport insurance requires speed as well as agile and effective decision-making to minimise the consequences of a loss.
Criteria provides a large experienced team of qualified expert loss adjusters, average adjusters and specialists in various disciplines in the field, strategically located to offer a global service in accordance with your needs.
Goods
OPERATIONAL AREAS
- Inspection, assessment, determining causes of losses and their consequences in claims relating to transport of goods by any means: land, sea or river, and air.
- Adjustment of all types of cargo: perishable, refrigerated and frozen, bulk solids and liquids, machinery and electronics, art.
- Transport policy claims adjustment
- Surveying means of transport, warehouses and port complexes
- Salvage sale activities and advice on recovery
Project Cargo
OPERATIONAL AREAS
- Guarantee inspections for infrastructure projects, power generators, mining, petrochemicals, heavy industry
- Defining critical project equipment
- Identifying parties involved
- Surveying packing and handling equipment
- Surveying warehouses, port complexes and means of transport
- Analysing risks between origin and destination; optimising routes and planning transhipments. Computer-based monitoring of ships and cargo Computerized tracking of shipments and loads
- Supervision of loading, unloading and storage operations in full transhipment
- Checking delivery conditions
- Overall project management
Hull and Machinery
OPERATIONAL AREAS
- Adjustment in hull and machinery (H&M) claims
- P&I adjustments
- Machinery breakdown
- Pre-risk surveys
- Condition surveys
- On/off hire survey
- Calculation of weights for draft difference
- Determining amount of fuel onboard
- Hatch cover tightness testing
Other services
OPERATIONAL AREAS
- Immediate attention Nat Cat services
- Loss of profits and costs resulting from stoppage (Marine & Aviation delay in start-up)
- Superintendence, prevention and monitoring
- Loading, stowage and lashing inspections
- Unloading and receipt inspections
- Merchandise quantity, quality and condition checks
- Taking samples and supervising laboratory analysis
- Inspecting cargo holds and spaces
- Control and management of stock and valuations
- Technical Services:
- Standardising cargo control and tracking processes
- Advice on suitability of transport, sea or land routes
- Advice on packing, stowage and lashing techniques
- Analysis of alternative uses for goods
- Providing international experts
- Transport and logistics consultancy
- Legal and technical reports and opinions
Recreational vessels
OPERATIONAL AREAS
- Hoisting and lashing inspections
- Condition and maintenance surveys prior to signing policies
- Analysis, evaluation and adjustment of damage to the ships themselves (hull damage, machinery breakdown, theft, sinking…)
- Monitoring and accreditation of repairs carried out on the basis of quotes drawn up in different workshops
- Inspections for sale and purchase operations
- Hold condition inspections
- Opening hatches
