Turkish service quality from Hamburg to the world

Captain Kerim Şafak Özcan, Co-Founder and Operations Manager of Maveks Marine Survey & Consultancy Co. Ltd, stepped into the maritime sector in 2001 after graduating from the ITU Maritime Faculty Deck Department.  In 2006, after working on various ships, he started to work at the Harbour Master Istanbul as a Port State Control Officer (PSCO). Mr. Özcan voluntarily left this job in 2014 and worked in ship management companies and maritime consultancy firms for 3-4 years. After all this experience, he founded Maveks Marine Survey & Consultancy. "We carry out inspections on all kinds of ships in all ports of the world on behalf of the Shipowner / Charterer / P&I and Flag State," said Özcan.

Özcan reminded that they are a company established in Istanbul in 2015, "Currently, our head office is located in Hamburg, Germany. We are concentrated in all Turkish ports, but we provide services in ports all over the world, especially in Northern Europe."

Services provided

Özcan summarizes the services they offer as follows: "Our company provides the following services as authorized by Hydor, Thomas Miller Specialty, Hanseatic P&I, London P&I, The Standard Club London, West of England P&I and Anadolu Sigorta & HDI Sigorta etc."

·       Pre-Loading Survey - Tally

·       Hatch Cover Ultrasonic Test

·       Condition & Entry Survey / Draft Survey / Port Captain and Supercargo Services,

·       Value Assessment Survey / P&I and H&M Entry - Condition Survey / Pre-purchase Survey,

In addition;

Flag State Inspection (ASI) – Barbados and Liberian Flag, (All Ports)

Preparing for and accompanying PSC, Flag State & Classification Surveys inspections, Vetting Surveys / Internal / External Audits,

Cargo Surveys, Sealing / Unsealing,

Bunker Quantity Survey (BQS),

On/Off Hire Bunker & Condition Survey,

In addition, with the overseas expansions that we started in 2018, all of the services we offer in Turkey are provided by our surveyors in the following ports,

•             Hamburg – Bremen - Rostock / Germany

•             Aalborg - Skagen / DENMARK

•             Galler / England

•             Ghent / Belgium

•             ARA Region (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp)

•             Casablanca / Morocco

•             Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia

•             Dubai,

•             Singapore,

"Since our head office is located in Hamburg, we generally serve foreign shipowners in Turkish ports and Turkish Shipowners in European ports. In addition, as the Flag Authority of Barbados and Liberia, we carry out "Annual Safety Inspection" (ASI inspection) on behalf of the Flag State all over the world, especially in Northern Europe."

"Our employee with the least experience has 10 years of experience"

Speaking about the goals and plans of the company in the medium and long term, Özcan said, "Maveks Marine holds the Certificate for International Inspection Company. Our mission is to provide high-quality marine survey and consultancy services to our customers with our expert staff. All of our personnel have at least 10 years of sea experience, Farewell Captain, and Chief Engineer qualifications. Our company has been serving in the field of Marine Survey activities since 2015. With the bilateral cooperation we have made recently; In all ports of Turkey (including the Straits) and European Countries, especially all ports, International Ship Operators, Shipowners, Ship Management Companies, P&I, and H&M organizations, the above-mentioned services are provided by our surveyors on behalf of the Flag State."