Strategic sourcing
- Source appropriate businesses/materials in China
- Provide manufacturing leads
- Review and negotiate terms of trade
- Factory inspections
- Assess quality of supplier
- Value chain management and analysis from order through to supply
- Export documentation
- Arrange freight
- Translation services
Concept and prototype development – Container housing
- Project management, engineering consultation and quality control of container house prototypes for Tahiti social housing development programme (scope of project: build 5,000 houses in Tahiti/New Caledonia)
- Worked with Singamas factory for 2 years. Singamas is the 2nd biggest container manufacturer in the world, with manufacturing capacity of 1m containers/year)
Independent observer Rena Shipwreck
- Worked on behalf of salvage company Smit and Svitzer, representing their interests onsite on the wreck of the Rena on the Astrolabe Reef in Tauranga, New Zealand
- Observed and documented containers and cargo from the Rena on a daily basis
- Assessed damages to containers
- Documentation – photos and reports
- Advise on cargo for discharge via helicopter lifting
- Check contents of container – is it what it is documented as
- Whether harzardous/what value – How to handle? Dangerous Goods issues
- Verification
- Security of cargo from discharge to landed. Secure storage facility on the wharf and control access (who/when)
- Insurance company/owners coordinate visits to storage sites
- Decision whether resaleable or not – valuation
- Fonterra – retesting of dairy product
Container Surveyor
- Condition surveys
- CSC survey assessment
- International safety standards
- Inspect for cargo
- Insurance for cargo claims
- Damage to cargo
- Water damage assessment
