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Newman Giles Paines & Company Limited is a multi-disciplined company providing marine surveyors, consultancy and expert witness services. The company was formed in 2011 and includes the former staff of Newman, Giles & Company Limited.

The services offered by our qualified engineers, naval architects and master mariners include:-

• Technical Advice to:
• Lawyers
• Underwriters
• Average & Loss Adjusters
• P&I Clubs
• Shipowners and Managers
• Shipbuilding & Repair Yards
• Ship Financing Organisations
• Charterers
• Super Yacht Owners
• Salvors
• Ports and Terminals
• Surveys and Consultancy:
• Hull & Machinery (casualty/damage cause investigation and/or analysis of costs)
• On-hire and off-hire surveys (particularly cruise ships, ferries and tankers)
• Collision and grounding
• Fire / explosion
• Structural failure
• Repairs (consultancy and/or supervision)
• Chartering
• Cargo
• Newbuilding
• Sale & Purchase
• Damage
• Salvage
• Unsafe port / berth
• Refrigeration
• Forest products
• Dry bulk
• Bulk liquids (particularly slow pumping and contamination disputes)
• Speed and performance disputes
• Loss control / Loss prevention

Experience:

Our personnel have the following experience:

• As sea going Masters and Chief Engineers of general cargo, bulk carrier, forest product carrier ,tanker, LPG tanker, heavy lift, roro, offshore and reefer vessels
• Service in most types of commercial vessels
• Superintending and ship management of a variety of vessel types
• Newbuilding, conversion and repairs
• Research (academic and practical)
• Knowledge of Rules and Regulations
• Safety & Quality Management
• Salvage operations
• Speed and performance disputes
• Security management
• Cognitive human factors
• Expertise in the English High Court and other Jurisdictions (USA, Canada, Peoples Republic of China, Brazil and France) and in arbitration and mediation in the UK and abroad.
• Cargo Superintendents
• Loss prevention and loss control

IT:

Newman Giles Paines & Company Limited is equipped with a networked office computer system incorporating a file server, workstations, printers and other office equipment. Surveyors have laptop computers and e-mail access when travelling.

Business Software:

 The core of Newman Giles Paines’ business software is the Microsoft Office suite, supporting high quality reports with the capability directly to incorporate drawings, photographs, sketches, output from spreadsheet calculations, and technical software.

Technical Software:

In addition to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, which provide the majority of Newman Giles Paines’ technical software requirement, a range of specialist software is available including the AutoHydro Ship Stability and Longitudinal Strength package, Autocad graphics, Mathcad, Vissim, our own “Marinus” manoeuvring simulator and many specialist programs written in house. Solutions can be tailored to Client requirements.