Pre Shipment Inspection Procedure

What is the Pre-Shipment Inspection

Commercial pre-shipment inspection for goods is taken by one of trade parties such as (seller, buyer, clients, agency …etc.) to inspect the product before shipping to its destination to fulfil one the following purpose:

• Check product defects.
• Check quality & quantity of goods.
• Check if product meet the safety requirements of importer’s country.
• Issue a certification of shipping.

Pre-shipment inspections were formally implemented in 1994 as part of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was later superseded by the World Trade Organization, to raise international trade standards (WTO).

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Benefits of inspection of shipment before loading 

• Non-discrimination
• Transparency
• protection of sensitive business information
• avoidance of delays
• price verification based on the cost of comparable or identical items in the exporting nation, with the exporter given the chance to defend the price charged, are all requirements.
• Inspection body set up appeals processes, and other exporters are given access to the results.

When production is at least 80% finished, it is the time to call an inspection body to conduct shipment inspections. It is your last chance to make changes before your production is sent, Good inspection making it a useful tool for protecting your product against highly cost, claims, loss if you received non-conforming products differ than what you agree.

We will issue an inspection report document after a successful goods & products inspection, and it travels with the consignment to its destination.

Pre-shipment inspection PSI

Activities which carried out during the inspection such as (performance. functionalities, overall appearance, dimension, and durability) and are routinely checked before shipping.

• Visual inspection
• Review of Documentation
• Inspection of Dimensional inspection
• Checking of marking & Packing
• Witness tests
• Witness sample measurements in factory
• checking packaging, counting, and marking against client specification
• Verifying proper handling when loading
• Verifying the wedging, attaching, and stowing on board

Following a successful inspection, the agency issues an inspection report document which accompanies the consignment to its destination.

Pre-shipment Inspection PSI or (Final Random Inspection) FRI. This inspection, which is the most significant and well-known services offered in the Inspection activity, strives to ensure that the production is in accordance with your requirements and global standards. When all stages of production are complete and at least 80% of the finished product has been packaged, PSI is carried out. The number, packing, quality, marking, and other significant items desired by the clients as well as international standards are all included in the scope of this inspection. According to ANSI/ASQ Z1.4-2008 AQL, this inspection should be performed generally in the seller’s factory (Default Lever 2.) (See 2 tables below)

Process flow of shipment commercial inspection 

Before starting of pre-shipment inspection mission at Export2Gulf, we will send the customer a document called a “job file” for approval. All the information on the inspection scope will be listed in the job file; the customer may add or remove certain items as needed. Once the client has reviewed, sealed, and returned the file, it becomes a single inspection agreement and considered as a checklist to direct the inspector’s work.

Export2Gulf’s account manager will be ready for any queries or requests from the client during the entire inspection procedure. The account manager must notify the client as soon as feasible if a significant flaw or discrepancy is found during inspection.

Certificate of inspection & Inspection report

After the inspection is complete, the client will receive the inspection report within 24 hours. Additionally, the after-sales service will get in touch with the customer to get their feedback immediately.

Send your inquiry for shipment inspection

We are ready to carry out and handling all of you pre-shipment inspection all over the Egyptian cities & Egyptian ports (Alexandria – Suez – Sokhna – Cairo – Giza …etc.)

If you have a pre-shipment inspection request outside egypt (Libya – Sudan – Yemen – Jordan – Saudi Arabia – Qatar – Kuwait – Oman – Bahrin – China – Philippine …etc.) do not hesitate to send your inquiry our