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Surveys and independent reporting upon illegal immigrant activity, temperature issues/excursions presenting rots, dehydration, or similar, quality issues or damages as a result of temperature abuse and other transit-related or store-related issues.
SOFT COMMODITIES
Surveys and independent reporting upon loading/discharge of cargo, quality sampling, salvage sale of damaged loads, visual/quality inspection of cargo in store, warehouse inspections, investigation of causes of damage through handling processes and other store/transit related claims.
CHILLED / FROZEN GOODS
Surveys and independent reporting upon illegal immigrant activity, temperature issues/excursions presenting 'blocking', thawing or similar, quality issues or damages as a result of temperature abuse and other transit-related or store-related issues.
MATERIALS
Surveys and independent reporting upon damages in transit, dropped Materials (i.e. Coils), theft of product, water/storm/flood damages, heat damage, electrical damages and other similar issues affecting commercially traded materials.
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EDWARD LIONEL JOHNSON
(1839 - 1901)
Our founder, E.L. Johnson was approaching 38, and a Corn and Oilcake Merchant of No. 1 New Corn Exchange, London EC, when he was appointed by the Salvage Association to act as a Grain Expert for the first time. The barque "EUCLID" with a cargo of Oats loaded at Riga bound for Le Havre had gone ashore at Fahludd, Gottland on the 24th May, 1877, resulting in serious damages to both the hull and the cargo.
When boarding the ship on 11th July, E.L. Johnson found much of the 450 tons of Oats remaining on board to be "heated and damaged consequent upon contact with seawater after stranding". A dispute arose with the Consignee and the matter was referred to a tribunal, who directed that the cargo be sold "with all fault" "for the account of whom concerned" - over 130 years later such a scenario has change little.
Within a few years demand for E.L. Johnson's expertise in this field increased and expanded to include other commodities.
E.L. Johnson's career as a Grain Expert and Cargo Surveyor subsequently spanned some 25 years and some of his earliest surveys included the barquentine "SWIFTSURE" carrying flour, stranded at Avonmouth on the 3rd March 1885, and the barque "C.R. BISHOP" with wheat on fire at Liverpool on the 23rd July 1889.
In the early 1880's the first shipments of frozen meat were arriving from Australia and New Zealand. The Institute of London Underwriters and Shipowners looked for individuals who "knew something about meat". E.L. Johnson soon became the pioneer of surveying frozen meat on defined lines. His force of character and ability, combined with tact, made him a formidable figure in frozen meat circles
Captain Thomas Robertson Mowat (1851 - 1917) had extensive sea-going experience of the Australian run and the carriage of frozen meat, and after coming ashore in October 1888, embarked on his second career in 1893 as a Surveyor, often representing the Australian and New Zealand Underwriters Association. In the 1890's therefore E.L. Johnson and Capt. Mowat would have met, and developed a mutual affinity and trust.
Such were the demands on E.L. Johnson's time during the 1880's that he decided to seek assistance for his business from within his own family. His brother, Frederick William Johnson (1845 - 1910) had assisted their father; also named Edward Lionel Johnson, as a cow keeper and later became a Meat Salesman and a Meat Surveyor.
E.L. Johnson's son, also called Edward Lionel Johnson (1868 - 1944) and the third generation to bear the name, had gained experience of the grain and cereal trade and joined his father as an assistant about 1889.
Following the death of E.L. Johnson in December 1901, his son Edward, together with his brother, Frederick and Capt. Mowat, formed E.L. JOHNSON'S SONS & MOWAT, Marine Cargo Surveyors in January 1902, operating from No. 37 Walbrook, London, EC4.
In 2010, on the completion of 125 years as a Partnership, and to reflect the continued success and development of the business, the Company became E.L. JOHNSON'S SONS & MOWAT LTD.
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