Japanese Coastal Ship Inspection and Consultant

Ship Pre-purchse Inspection
Do you need our service to avoid choosing wrong vessel (Japanese coastalers: Naiko Sen)?


Almost most of Japan built vessels (Japanese coastalers) for a domestic trade are not built according to SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974). Documents and survey documents are usually written in Japanese. If you are not familar with vessels, you probably need our consulting service and/or ship survey. If you use our services, here is advantages for you.

1. We inform you what items will be problems for International trade.

2. We inform you some possible solutions if there are.

3. We give you a brief report.

4. We provide you pictures of a vessel.

We can e-mail you pictures if you are not in Japan. You can save your time and traveling expenses by using our services.

We have a background of naval architect and experiences of marine survey. You can trust our professional knowledges and experiences. Unlike a ship broker, we are in your side. We assist you for your purchased vessel to be enrolled into classification society (IACS member) if you wish.

Here is our basic fees and services. Service fees (for ships less than 1500tons (ITC)) are US$1000 + actual transportation cost. We will send you pictures of vessels and a brief report. Our cost is very small compared with a loss for choosing a wrong vessel. Why not calling with us. We all wait for having a business with you.

(Note: Our service is only limited to Area where a day trip by a car is possible.)

If you really need our service outside our service area, we will consider our fees as a special case.


Our Service includes:

Brief report of a ship condition
List of problems which are likely to be pointed out by PSCO
Pictures of a vessel
Our brief comments if our client asks a specfic item.
Other services are optional. We will provide various services if our clients request after inspection of a vessel.

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TOA CONSULTANT CO., LTD.
814 Tonoura Cho Innoshima-City
Hiroshima-PREF, 722-2213, Japan
TEL: (+81) 8452-6-2114
FAX: (+81) 8452-6-2114

toa-ichikawa@mth.biglobe.ne.jp