About
About SurveyEra
An independent publication for people who survey ships and cargo for a living.
What this is
SurveyEra publishes technical material on marine and cargo surveying: how a survey is carried out, why each step exists, where the figures come from, and what commonly goes wrong. It is written for marine and cargo surveyors, shipowners and charterers, P&I and insurance personnel, cargo interests, inspection companies, and students entering the field.
It is a publication, not a regulator and not a certifying body. Nothing here overrides the applicable convention, national regulation, charter party, sale contract or the judgement of the attending surveyor. Where a point is contractual rather than statutory, we say so.
Who publishes it
SurveyEra is published by Maritime Innovation Bru AS in Oslo, Norway. Editorial work is credited to SurveyEra Editorial. Articles that have been checked line by line against their sources by a practising marine surveyor carry a named technical reviewer; articles without one say so plainly at the foot of the page.
How articles are produced
Research and drafting are assisted by AI systems working to a written editorial constitution. No article reaches this site automatically. Every piece is proposed as a change request, reviewed by a human editor against its cited sources, and published only after that review. The full process, including what the automated stage is and is not permitted to do, is set out in the editorial policy.
Relationship with MarineSurvey.Online
MarineSurvey.Online is survey software produced by the same company. The two are deliberately separate: SurveyEra explains method and principle, and the platform is where a survey is actually conducted, calculated and documented. An article links to the platform only where a specific module genuinely corresponds to the task being described. Most articles carry no product link at all, and none is written in order to sell software.
Corrections
Technical publishing gets things wrong occasionally. If you find an error — a misattributed requirement, a wrong figure, an out-of-date reference — please tell us. Corrections are made openly and dated.