Pre-shipment inspection
Importing means paying for goods you haven’t seen, from a supplier you may never visit. Pre-shipment inspection closes that gap: through longstanding reciprocal co-operation with leading international inspection companies, BCBD inspects your cargo at origin — anywhere in the world — before it ships and before you pay, at a cost that is a fraction of what one bad consignment would take from you.
Range of products
- Agricultural
- Consumer
- Industrial
- Metals & minerals
- Petroleum & petro-chemical
Industries we serve
- Banks
- Insurance
- Shipping / export
- Transportation
- Textile
- Chemical
- Food / packers
- Container
- Pulp & paper
- Consumer
- Petroleum / petrochemical
- Oil & gas
- Pipeline
- Communications
- Construction
- Electronics
Most buyers make our certificate a documentary condition of the letter of credit — ask us for the standard clause and no shipping document becomes negotiable without independent verification.
Machinery life certification
For customs and L/C purposes, we issue longevity and age certificates for capital machinery, vehicles and reconditioned equipment:
| Product | Certification |
|---|---|
| Second-hand or reconditioned capital machinery, generators, generator sets | 10-Year Longevity Certificate |
| Prime mover, dump truck, dumper, mixer lorry, self-loader, hydraulic crane | 10-Year Longevity Certificate |
| Old or reconditioned gear box, bus, truck, car or microbus engines | 7-Year Longevity Certificate |
| Second-hand motor vehicle / motorcycle | Age Certificate |
