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Marine Practice — DLS

Cargo & Casualty Services

Loss investigation, cause and origin work, and expert testimony documented from the first 48 hours.

Overview

Cargo & Casualty Services

We investigate cargo loss, damage, shortage and contamination across bulk, break-bulk and containerized trades, and conduct cause and origin analysis on fires, machinery failures, structural casualties and pollution events.

Claims turn on documentation gathered in the first days. Quantity, condition, custody and sampling chain of custody need to be established before the cargo moves again — it is the first thing an opposing expert will attack.

Our surveyors have testified in federal court, in arbitration and before regulatory bodies. Every report is written from day one with that end in mind.

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