Commodities
Cereals & Grain Products
BENEDICT & RAYMOND provides comprehensive inspection services for cereals and grain products, ensuring full compliance with ISO, GAFTA, and contractual quality requirements throughout the supply chain.
Our expertise covers bulk, bagged, and containerized cereals including wheat, corn, barley, sorghum, oats, and rice.
Our services include:
- Preshipment inspections at silos, warehouses, and terminals to verify quality, moisture, infestation status, and contractual compliance
- Loading and discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling, trimming, cleanliness, and contamination prevention
- Damage assessment, including moisture ingress, mold, infestation, heating, and cross contamination
- ISO/GAFTA compliant sampling, composite preparation, and sealed dispatch to accredited laboratories
- Laboratory analysis coordination, including moisture, protein, gluten, impurities, mycotoxins, and other quality parameters
Fertilizers
We provide full inspection and quality‑control services for granular, prilled, and powdered fertilizers, including urea, DAP, MAP, NPK blends, ammonium sulfate, and potash.
Our services include:
- Preshipment verification of product identity, packaging, and storage conditions
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling, moisture control, and segregation
- Damage assessment, including caking, moisture contamination, degradation, and contamination by foreign materials
- Sampling according to ISO and GAFTA standards, including incremental and composite sampling
- Laboratory analysis, including nutrient content (NPK), moisture, granulation, and impurities
Feed Stuff & Animal Nutrition Products
We inspect a wide range of feed ingredients, including soybean meal, sunflower meal, rapeseed meal, DDGS, bran, pellets, and mixed feed.
Our services include:
- Preshipment quality verification, including moisture, odor, infestation, and contamination checks
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling and segregation
- Damage assessment, including spoilage, mold, heating, and cross contamination
- Sampling according to ISO/GAFTA, including sealed sample preparation
Biomasses
We provide specialized inspection services for biomass cargoes, including wood pellets, wood chips, PKS, olive cake, and agricultural residues.
Our services include:
- Preshipment verification of moisture, fines, durability, and contamination
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct trimming, ventilation, and fire risk mitigation
- Damage assessment, including self heating, moisture ingress, and degradation
- ISO compliant sampling, including reduction and sealed sample preparation
- Laboratory analysis, including calorific value, ash, moisture, fines, and chlorine content
Vegetable Oils (Vegoils)
We inspect and supervise liquid cargoes such as palm oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, rapeseed oil, and other edible and technical oils.
Our services include:
- Preshipment tank inspections, cleanliness verification, and suitability checks
- Loading/discharge supervision, including temperature control and line clearing verification
- Damage assessment, including contamination, oxidation, polymerization, and water ingress
- FOSFA compliant sampling, including sealed samples for laboratory testing
- Analysis coordination, including FFA, moisture, impurities, color, and peroxide value
Steel Products
We provide detailed inspection services for steel coils, plates, billets, pipes, bars, wire rods, and structural steel.
Our services include:
- Preshipment inspection of packing, markings, dimensions, and surface condition
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling, stowage, and lashing
- Damage assessment, including rust, deformation, impact marks, and chloride contamination (Silver Nitrate Testing)
- Sampling and analysis, when required for chemical or mechanical properties
Feldspar, Clay & Industrial Minerals
We inspect industrial minerals such as feldspar, kaolin, bentonite, and other clays used in ceramics, glass, and manufacturing.
Our services include:
- Preshipment verification of moisture, granulation, purity, and packaging
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling and contamination prevention
- Damage assessment, including moisture ingress, contamination, and degradation
- Sampling according to ISO standards
- Laboratory analysis, including chemical composition, moisture, particle size, and whiteness
Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash)
We provide specialized inspection services for light and dense soda ash used in glass, detergents, and chemical industries.
Our services include:
- Preshipment verification of purity, granulation, and packaging
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling and moisture control
- Damage assessment, including caking, contamination, and degradation
- ISO compliant sampling
Seeds & Oilseeds
We inspect oilseeds and specialty seeds, including soybeans, rapeseed, sunflower seed, sesame, flaxseed, and pulses.
Our services include:
- Preshipment quality checks, including moisture, infestation, purity, and foreign matter
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling and contamination prevention
- Damage assessment, including heating, mold, and moisture ingress
- ISO/GAFTA compliant sampling
- Analysis coordination, including oil content, moisture, impurities, and quality parameters
Boxed Food & Packaged Consumables
We inspect boxed, canned, and packaged food products, ensuring compliance with hygiene, labeling, and transport standards.
Our services include:
- Preshipment verification of packaging integrity, labeling, and storage conditions
- Loading/discharge supervision, ensuring correct handling and segregation
- Damage assessment, including crushing, contamination, leakage, and spoilage
- Sampling and laboratory coordination, when required for microbiological or chemical testing
Break Bulk Cargoes
We provide full inspection and supervision services for all break‑bulk cargoes, including machinery, project cargo, timber, bagged goods, and general cargo.
Our services include:
- Preshipment inspection of condition, packing, and markings
- Loading/discharge supervision
- Damage assessment, including impact, water ingress, deformation, and improper handling
- Sampling and analysis, when applicable
