Inspection Results: The Soul of the Trade and the Bedrock of Settlement
Inspection methods and settlement relationship
- In-Process Production Monitoring
- Core Objective: Real-time quality control and proactive risk management.
- Implementation: Conducted by on-site professional quality inspectors via production line patrols.
- Financial Validity: Internal management reference; not used as a payment instrument.
- Professional Summary: Ensuring consistency at the source through real-time operational oversight (Internal QC only).
- Precision Laboratory Assay
- Core Objective: Accurate determination of chemical and physical properties (e.g., Iron, Silica, Alumina content).
- Implementation: Representative samples are drawn and sent to ISO-certified, independent third-party laboratories.
- Financial Validity: Technical profiling; not used as a payment instrument.
- Professional Summary: Definitive chemical and physical profiling via ISO-certified independent laboratories.
- Pre-Shipment Inspection (PSI)
- Core Objective: Verification that the quality and quantity of the cargo strictly match contractual requirements.
- Implementation: Conducted by world-class agencies (e.g., SGS/CCIC) through comprehensive on-site sampling.
- Financial Validity: Key Payment Instrument. Determines whether the cargo is fit for logistics execution.
- Professional Summary: Full-batch sampling and verification of contractual compliance prior to shipping.
- Loading Supervision & Security
- Core Objective: Ensuring cargo authenticity and preventing tampering, substitution, or dilution during the loading phase.
- Implementation: Third-party agencies remain on-site throughout the process to apply physical seals and video records.
- Financial Validity: Critical Risk Control Instrument.
- Professional Summary: Securing the integrity of the cargo against tampering or substitution during loading.
- Discharge Port Final Inspection
- Core Objective: Final audit of the PSI results and the ultimate closure of the risk cycle.
- Implementation: Professional surveyors at the discharge port draw final samples from the arrived cargo.
- Financial Validity: Key Payment Instrument. All final balance payments are issued based on this report.
- Professional Summary: The definitive audit of results and the final basis for financial settlement.
Services by ISO-Accredited Inspectors
