Auckland office services the main part of the Island covering the ports of Auckland, Whangarei and Tauranga as well as the city of Hamilton
Many of our principals choose to have jobs coordinated from Auckland even though the claim source might be in Wellington or in the South Island.
It is frequently the case that head offices of forwarders, airlines and shipping companies/agents are in the Auckland region - our local knowledge can thus be of great benefit.
Specialties include electronics and machinery.
Neil Abbott: Director and Senior Surveyor
17 years as a Marine Surveyor.
Born in England, 1954.
15 years sea-going experience on commercial cargo vessels and sail training ships.
1985: Marine Superintendent, Mobil Shipping, Ras Tanura Saudi Arabia
1987: Cleghorn Wilton & Assoc., Dubai as staff surveyor.
1988: Transferred to GAB Robins, Lloyd's Agents, Auckland
1997: Started Manu Marine (NZ) Ltd
Mail to :John Catt: Director and assistant surveyor
Born in England, 1947. 15 years in journalism and commerical radio; BA (Auckland); Industrial advocacy
1997 Started Manu Marine (NZ) Ltd in assocation with Neil Abbott
John has valuable knowledge of furniture and antiques making him a great asset when dealing with household and personal effects claims.
Mail to:Scott Griffiths: Assistant marine surveyor
Scott Griffiths is a 'freshman' to the marine surveying profession but comes with several years experience afloat (RYA Yachtmaster Ocean) in the international yacht crewing and chartering business. He thus knows some of the ropes already so to speak.
He joined us on November 19th 2007 and has already been plunged straight into the wide variety of claims which come across our desk; 200t of 'problem' dairy product, latent defects on a yacht and one or two of those dreaded household and personal effects jobs...
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