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Four services produce a reading rather than a transaction: a second opinion before a major commitment, due diligence for investors and lenders, country and sociopolitical risk, and logistics feasibility.
— Four reviews
A review of what is already on the table, before management commits to it — returned as a go, no-go or conditional-go assessment.
Maritime and logistics due diligence for investors, lenders, funds and project developers evaluating an industrial project.
For projects in challenging jurisdictions, assessments coordinated with specialists and read against the logistics plan.
Whether a project is practically executable and at what approximate cost — so logistics enters the project before procurement, not after it.
— How the reading is produced
Every review follows the same record: the chain of eight links, the five perspectives, and a risk register with probability, impact, owner, mitigation and cost.
Supplier to final site, each link read as technical, operational, commercial, contractual and risk.
Offers scored on price, currency, validity, inclusions, taxes, bunker, escalation, experience, resources, insurance, solvency and execution risk — never price alone.
An in-house team builds tools to organise documents, compare offers, review contracts, classify risks and draft matrices and reports. The tools support the reading; they do not replace it.
Contact
Send the cargo, its origin and destination, and the window you are working to. The first reply sets out whether the move is feasible, the likely corridor, the main exposures and an indicative cost band — before anything is committed.
sz@szandcoadvisory.com London · worldwide
