The alliance
BCBD controls cotton at destination in alliance with Transglobal Inspections LLC (TGI) of Texas, USA — a specialist raw-cotton controller and a member of:
- International Cotton Association (ICA)
- American Cotton Shippers Association
- Texas Cotton Shippers Association
- Atlantic Cotton Shippers Association
- Southern Cotton Shippers Association
- Western Cotton Shippers Association
Nominate TGI / BCBD in your contract for pre-shipment or post-landing inspection, and your consignment is inspected to ICA bye-laws and rules — with findings documented well enough to put in front of a tribunal, should it ever come to that.
Inspection & sampling
- Bale by bale
- By truckload
- By container
- Container unsealing, unloading and tally
- Supervision of sampling
- Actual drawing of samples
- Quality testing (HVI)
Inspections are carried out on containers, trucks and vessels.
Damage survey documentation
- Post-landed country damage survey
- Pre-shipment visual survey for external country damage
- Foreign matter survey
- Water damage survey
- Fire damage survey
Stock verification
- Warehouse inspections
- Pre-shipment inspections
Inspection procedure
Methods and procedures follow ICA bye-laws & rules and/or your specific guidelines.
