Off hire survey for ship and vessel

Off hire survey is to check condition a vessel after hiring period and calculate quantity of fuel bunker remain on board for re-deliver to ownership (or delivery to new charterer).

On/Off hires are one of nautical terms in hire of Ship / Vessel to shipping of goods from a hiring company &  a leasing company. The hiring company is called the Charterer, the leasing company is called the shipowner according to hire & leasing  contract which is called the Charter party.

“Charter party”: in shipping,  the “hiring” is the “chartering” or the “hired” is the “chartered”;  the hiring company is the charterer and the leasing company is ship-owner, the time-chartered for a voyage is "Trip charter", the cargo was petroleum coke, a very dirty cargo, it will have to be redelivered to the owner with "clean swept holds"

As independent marine surveyors, we offer on / off hire vessel condition surveys, condition surveys, bunker quantity survey & pre purchase inspection in ports of Vietnam, port of the World. Email

AIM Control’s marine expertise surveyors conduct the On hire Survey on the hired ship’s condition when a Ship / Vessel commences a time charter (hiring), a hired Ship / Vessel (her) is said to be "delivered" from the ship-owner to the Charterer.

“Delivery” means that the Ship / Vessel is being placed under the charterer's control and their responsibility on management  and operation.

Time & Position of “Delivery” & “Re-delivery”: Time & Position (Place) of “Delivery” & “Re-delivery” on the hired ship / vessel are at DOLSP (Dropping Off Last Sea Pilot)

DLOSP (Dropping Last Outward Sea Pilot): This expression is used to describe the point at which a time chartered ship is "delivered" to the Charterer or "redelivered" to the shipowner. Normally, the place of actual delivery or redelivery and where an "on-hire inspection" or "off hire inspection" would be carried out would be a ship is being berthed but the time from which hire of ship is to be paid or until which hire is paid may be an "artificial" point (position of ship) such as when the ship has left the berth, and the pilot who assists with the navigation of the ship to the pilot station (outside the port limits).

AIM Control’s marine expertise surveyors conduct the Off hire survey on the hired ship’s condition when the hired Ship / Vessel period is expired, the hired Ship / Vessel is said to be "redelivered" from the Charterer to the ship-owner.

“Redelivery” means that the Ship / Vessel is being returned to the owner's control and their responsibility on management  and operation.

On / off hire bunker surveys: AIM Control’s marine expertise surveyors conduct the Off/On hire bunker surveys on quantity & weight of “Bunker” on board of the hired ship’s oil tanks after that calculating of the actual quantity of bunker at time vessel’s arrival Dropping Off Last Sea Pilot (DOLSP) based on consumption of bunker quantity and period of ship / vessel voyage from her berthed at the present port / harbor to DOLSP.

“Bunker” is all types of oils are being stored on the hired ship’s oils tanks as Marine Fuel Oil (FO), Diesel Oil (DO), Lubricate Oil (LO).

Types of Cargo Ships

Breakbulk Vessels: Used for the carriage of various kinds of cargoes – bagged cargo (cement, sugar etc.), palletized cargo (paint, chemicals etc.), timber etc.

Ro-Ro Vessels: Used for the carriage of wheeled cargo like cars, buses, trucks, exacavators etc etc. Where the option is available, these vessels are can also carry some project cargoes as long as these are loaded on trailers or any other wheeled modes. Further classified as PCC (Pure Car Carriers) & PCTC (Pure Car & Truck Carriers) the purpose of which are obvious from the names.

Multi-purpose Vessels: Used for the carriage of a combination of above cargoes. Very versatile, popular and useful vessels specially along certain routes which require self-geared vessels and do not have shore handling facilities.

Heavy-lift Vessels: Used for the carriage of project cargo, super cargo, cargo in oversize and overweight

Tanker Vessels: Used for the carriage of various liquid cargoes like oil, chemicals etc.

Crude Carriers: Used for the carriage of (you guessed it) crude oil – further classified as  VLCC (Very large Crude Carriers) and ULCC (Ultra large Crude Carriers)

LNG Carriers: Used for the carriage of Liquefied Natural Gas.

Reefer Vessel: Used for the carriage of frozen cargoes or temperature controlled cargoes like fruits, meat, fish etc.

 

Cargo ships are classified under different categories based on their size, dimension and weight..

Most common classifications are:

Handy size, ships weighing between 28,000-40,000 DWT

Handymax, ships weighing between 40,000-50,000 DWT

Panamax, the largest size of ship which can pass through the Panama Canal – DWT of between 60,000 to 80,000 tons

Aframax, generally tankers weighing between 75,000 and 115,000 DWT

Suezmax, the largest size of ship which can pass through the Suez Canal – DWT of around 150,000 tons

Malaccamax, the largest size of ship which can navigate through the Malacca Straits – would have a DWT of ideally between 280000 to 300,000 tons in terms of container ships

Capesize, vessels larger than Panamax and Suezmax, which cannot pass through either the Panama Canal or Suez Canal and has to pass through the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn – above 150,000 long tons in DWT

VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), supertankers between 150,000 and 320,000 DWT

ULCC (Ultra Large Crude Carrier), supertankers between 320,000 and 550,000 DWT

Seawaymax, the largest size of ship that can fit through the canal locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway – has a DWT of between 10,000 to 60,000 tons

Period (Time) of AIM Control's Off hire ship survey: At the time of ship arrival ports to berth and anchorage, delivery of ship, redelivery of vessel etc.

Scope of AIM Control's Off hire survey services: There are 02 stages of Off hire ship condition survey and bunker quantity survey services.

Place of AIM Control's Off hire vessel survey: - at on board of the ships and vessels in ports, harbours, anchorage, place and position of ship, place of ship delivered and place of ship re-delivered, namely based in Vietnam, China, India, Korea, Asia, Europe, the Middle East Anywhere of Countries.

AIM Bunker Quantity Survey Service

AIM Vessel Full on hire survey

AIM Vessel tally of cargo

AIM surveys relating others to Off/On hire surveys

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