A recent case in a small port in South east Asia remind me the good old situation in Singapore : Ship representative or Owner representative
Its funny to see a ship rep on board as they are not surveyor, they are not third party, they are behaving as interest of the buyer and sometimes they act like Chief engineer , flipping the logbook like magazine in the hair salon, even though they only been on board for 3 hours.
One of my closed friend recently have this question” Why the supplier don’t accept ship rep on board ? if their operation is professional they shouldn’t afraid !”
My explanation is simple , imagine now there is a soccer match, team China vs. Team France , now a random guy who work for the french team locker room come up and say : listen to my judgement, although there is no evidence of knowing what i am doing and it seems like i am acting on the other team’s interest, but if you play your game clean you should be okay with it “, so now do you accept this referee ?
My client jump up and say ” of course not !” , i say “here you go my friend.”
In any case i don’t agree the supplier and the buyer is in a competitive but should be in co-operate frame, however if there is doubt its OK to have a third party to monitor or simply go to other port which technology can assist like Mass flow meter in Singapore.
Until next time !
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