Pre-Finance Inspections
A bow-to-stern approach to ship financing
Idwal's Pre-Finance Inspections consolidate our financier-tailored services into a comprehensive vessel/fleet report that empowers you to make well-informed investment/finance decisions when adding new vessels to your portfolio. This comprehensive package includes:
1. Idwal's High Quality Condition Inspections - For financial institutions with exposure to shipping, who are committed to maintaining the highest of standards and minimising risk, it is crucial to ensure that vessels are maintained in accordance with industry best-practice, with values preserved and asset-integrity maintained.
2. Condition Adjusted Valuations - Idwal conducts a thorough inspection of your vessel, providing our exclusive Idwal Grade. This is then combined with valuation algorithms to generate a bespoke Condition Adjusted Valuation Certificate.
3. Technical Due Diligence - Leveraging Idwal's top-tier technical due diligence capabilities early in transactions ensures accurate assessment of asset portfolios.
4. Vessel Grade Comparison - From an initial overview of your vessel within its sector to detailed comparisons with similar vessels in terms of age and sector, we offer in-depth insights.
5. ESG Reporting - Our ESG-focused services enable you to enhance decision-making regarding ESG factors across your vessels, portfolio, or organization, helping manage ESG risks effectively and enhancing your reputation with stakeholders.
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Leverage Idwal's expertise
We are market leaders in asset integrity inspections, operating predominantly in transaction-focused markets. We have highly experienced and competent surveyors with experience across a broad range of vessel types and we produce thousands of inspection reports every year. This deep experience and knowledge, aligned with our unique data insights will work as an advantage for your investments.
As a carbon-neutral business, we are proud to deliver sustainable inspections and our focus on carbon reporting across all inspection activity provides us numerous opportunities to improve our impacts environmentally and to assist you achieve your own carbon goals.
What does a Pre-Finance Inspection entail?
Adjust valuations based on condition
Condition Adjusted Valuations (CAV) combine the vessel’s actual condition, measured using our unique Idwal Grade, with algorithmic-derived market values to account for a vessel’s physical condition; in a first for the maritime industry. Ensure you are paying the right price, respective of the condition of the vessel.
Compare your vessel with the world fleet
Starting with an overview of your ship alongside all vessels in its sector, we can then reveal further granularity through the comparison of vessels in the same sector and of a similar age. This tool will allow you to understand the condition of your investments better than ever before.
Accurately assess the condition of your vessel
With Idwal's rigorous and market-leading technical due diligence cababilities applied early in deals, clients can be sure to have accurately assessed the condition of any porfolio of assets. Backed by our technical expertise and propriety dataset, our clients pursue ventures confident that asset realities match expectations.
Gain ESG insights into your vessel/fleet
We can provide more context on the condition of your vessel than any other inspection provider. Even with your own in-house team, intermittent use of our inspections will ensure your assessments are in line with global standards and provide invaluable transparency to reassure your stakeholders.
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Deploy the Idwal Grade®
- All our inspection reports feature the Idwal Grade®, an industry recognised measure of asset integrity.
- It is programmatically calculated from over 500 individual data points, captured during a standardised inspection process. Our data-driven methodology ensures that our reports are consistent, accurate and free from bias.
- Simple to understand regardless of your technical experience, the Idwal Grade enables easy visualisation, benchmarking and comparisons of an asset.
Regular inspections across your fleet
Idwal ID delivers defect management, fleet analytics and benchmarking through detailed ship inspections and reports, with dynamic condition data on an intuitive platform.
We conduct regular inspections across your fleet with our expert surveyors and provide you with access to the Idwal ID platform.
Idwal ID is built on these 3 key pillars: inspections; surveyors; platform, enabling you to save time and money, take effective action and demonstrate excellence, to drive value for your business. Each element is deployed with careful attention to detail by a team with in-depth shipping industry experience for the purpose of delivering a robust programme that can help you drive value.
