Edward F. Travers & Associates Inc. provides expert marine and cargo surveying services with over 120 years of combined industry experience, specializing in cargo transportation, oil spill response, and expert witness reports.
Elbeport Brunsbüttel is a universal multi-purpose port located at the entrance to the Kiel Canal and the river Elbe, offering deep water tidal berths and handling various cargo including oil, gas, chemicals, dry cargo, containers, and dangerous goods with modern facilities and experienced personnel.
Petaluma, California, United StatesUpdated Nov 1998
Training
Elkins Training Company provides internationally compliant maritime and offshore training courses, including FCC license preparatory classes, with a history dating back to 1952.
Dredge manufacturer. Has designed and manufactured over 1200 dredges. Broad expertise in dredge design for virtually every application of dredging and mining.
MARINE & INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION RESPONSE
Environmental Protection Engineering S.A. offers services for the protection of the marine environment, internationally, and specialized products for the marine industry (IMO, MARPOL, SOLAS).
The European Freight and Logistics Leaders Forum is an international non-profit association with over eighty members focused on the development and harmonisation of multimodal freight transport systems in Europe.
Ewals Cargo Care is a Dutch transport company providing flexible logistics solutions and cargo freight services across Greater Europe, with its head office in Tegelen, Netherlands.
Baltimore,, Maryland, United StatesUpdated Mar 2008
Footner and Company, Inc. is a maritime-related company based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The website is currently inactive and available for purchase.
The two product service lines that historically have helped maritime companies and self insured employers save millions of dollars has been,
1. Medical Nurse Case Management - where we receive notification of the injury claim within the first 24 hours and the nurse coordinates all the medical care advising our clients on the course of the medical portion of the claim. The benefits resulting in an earlier release to full duty or obtaining medical information early in the claim so that the employer or shipowner can be pre-warned if the injured party cannot go back to work or in the case of a passenger outlining and controlling reasonable rehabilitation costs.
2. On the back end of the claim there is Medical Bill Auditing, this is done by our Med-Check division, by nurses who review medical records, who search for CPT codes errors and look to alleviate any fraud or over exaggeration in medical billing. We audit all medical services of any kind in every state.
The plaintiff attorneys in the U.S. along with a small portion of medical providers have been working together to escalate medical damages related to maritime accident claims. The Federal Jones Act and The Federal Long Shore Act does not limit liability awards on maritime claims and therefore it has become an arena for fraud and abuse. The maritime industry can defend against these claims with the proper use of medical cost containment services.
Germanischer Lloyd is an independent classification society which supervises safety and quality on behalf of their clients, mainly for ships and for maritime installations.
Wellington,, Kapiti Coast,, New Zealand (Aotearoa)Updated Feb 2008
GlobalMET is an international association established in 1996 that promotes and supports maritime education and training, with consultative status at the IMO and a network of over 50 institutions from more than 25 countries.