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About us
We place the greatest value on an objective and neutral view and on the full clarification of the facts.
The way into the profession
Our casualty and damage reports state every discrepancy known to us, and mitigating the loss comes first. Neither is a marketing line. It is the way of working that has proved to be the only durable one over four decades.
- Early years Raised in the family forwarding business, salvaging truck loads and reconditioning damaged cargo.
- 1975 to 1979 Trained as a forwarding agent.
- 1979 to 1994 Employed at Karl Selig Speditionsservice. Realisation of salvage goods and remaining stock, brokerage of industrial goods of all kinds, commercial property.
- Since 1987 Independent cargo surveyor.
- 1994 Took over the company and continued it.
- 1994 to 2005 Managing partner and operations manager of Meister Kranz gegr. 1654 Nürnberger Lebkuchen Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH, a small gingerbread manufactory in Nuremberg.
- Since 2008 Seminars for cargo surveyors, training school for cargo surveyors (SfH).
Origins
Handling, loading, breakage and loss: as long as there has been freight traffic, there has been the argument about who bears the damage. The cargo surveyor settles exactly that, whether the load hangs from a crane, stands on a swap body or lies in a ditch.
Karl A. Selig
Cargo damage experts since 1987
Surveyor for transport damage
Training school for cargo surveyors (SfH)
Further activities
Training school (SfH)
Seminars for cargo surveyors since 2008, passing on what has proved itself in practice to the next generation of the trade.
Trade articles
Regular contributions to the trade press, among them the column "Der Havariekommissar".
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No call centre, no queue.