Main Activities

Cargo Inspections

Cargo inspection on road and railway transport, loading/discharging supervision, cargo securing control, tally, damage investigation.

Container Inspections

Container condition inspection (DV, OT, RH, TC, FR and other types), Pre-Trip Inspection, damage investigation, repair costs assessment, loading and discharging supervision.

Marine Survey

Draft survey, Ullage survey, Bunker survey, inspections for P&I, damage survey, supervision, tallying when loading and discharging.

Warehouse Inspections

Stock inventory, cargo quality inspection, expertise, sampling for laboratory tests, weighting and marking accounting.

History of Our Company

SURVEYOR — a surveyor (including «Yacht & Small Craft Surveyor», «Hull & Machinery Surveyor» and/or «Cargo Surveyor») is a person who conducts inspections, surveys or examinations of cargoes and vessels to assess, monitor and report on their condition and the products on them, as well as inspects damage caused to both vessels and cargo.

SKS company started its activity in Riga (Latvia) in 1993. Since 2001 SKS company is provide surveys on the territory of the Russian Federation.

For a long time our company cooperates with major shippers, brokers and freight forwarders.

We have gained a considerable experience in the inspection of all types of goods: food products, construction materials, timber, lumber, steel, scrap, bulk and liquid cargo, equipment, consumer’s goods etc.

For many years of experience we have been able to significantly expand the number of our branches, agents and partners on the territory of the Russian Federation: Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, the ports of the Black Sea (Temryuk, Port Caucasus, Novorossiysk, Sochi, Taganrog, Taman, Temryuk, Tuapse), Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Ulan-Ude, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Petropavlosk-Kamchatsky, Blagoveshchensk, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Tambov, Voronezh, Perm, Kazan, Omsk, Petrozavodsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Samara, Yakutsk, Penza, Birobidzhan, Magadan, Krasnodar and others. The huge branch network allows us to supply our clients with inspection service almost in all regions of the Russian Federation in several hours after nomination receiving.

We also provide survey services in other countries: China (our widest network of agents), Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine.

Cooperating with the company SKS you get:

1. Inspection could be started in 4 hrs. after application;
2. Widest survey network in Russia;
3. Reasonable price;
4. Consulting & investigation availability;
5. Experience and brand name since 1993.

Our Certificates

ISO 9001:2015

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