China

Joint Venture partner: Huayang Maritime Centre

Our Joint Venture partner (Huayang Maritime Centre) belongs to the same government entity as the Maritime Safety Administration.

Using competencies through our joint venture with Huayang Maritime Services, we offer experienced staff, which we are able to dispatch all over China.

Dedicated liquid & gas cargo team led by leaders with 8-10 years exp

Our dedicated team acts as your local eyes and ears in China. After years of significant operational experience, we have built a reliable team with experienced staff who have worked solely on Tankers and LNG vessels for the last 20 years in China. 

We understand the importance of building strong relationships with the various industry players. As such, we maintain frequent interactions with cargo receivers, charterers and traders. Our amicable relationship with all ensures a reduction in time spent on communications, arrangements and appointments.

In addition, we ensure:

• Effective communication and coordination between vessel and the local agents through close monitoring and connections
• Information about your port calls proactively being communicated to you
• Regular lineup reports, draft of B/L and port intelligence actively sent to you, enabling you to enhance your decision making process
• Our in-depth knowledge of local conditions and port infrastructure and keen obersavtion of vessel's movements ensures efficiency and safety in our operations 
• We negotiate to lower your costs while maintaining the quality of services provided based on our extensive experience

Owners & Charterers Protective Agency with specialization in LNG

Safeguarding your interests is our priority as your protective agent. We speciliase in Owner’s Protective Agent and Charterer’s Protective Agent
with a specialisation in LNG.

• Our Know Your Supplier (KYS) procedure ensures that compliance and safety risks are communicated and managed through thorough vetting
• Always ensuring that you are in the know by providing you with updates of local conditions, vessel movement and loading/discharging progress
• Quality checks on all costs from the handling agent and challenging any items (e.g. over-usage of tugs or utilizing the wrong type
• Scrutinising the SOF
• Go in depth into your port call performance and analyze areas which
  you can improve in and provide Port Captain service if required

Fully licensed agency with local Chinese bank account

Being a fully licensed agency in China, we are able to physically and legally represent your interests, thereby streamlining your operations and financial transactions. 

Most agencies in China work through local 3rd parties who have licenses. This increases your costs through multiple agents and complicates operations. At WSS, we remove the middlemen and get in touch with you directly instead.

As a fully licensed agent, we operate with our local Chinese bank account, further increasing your savings as multiple transactional costs will no longer apply.

Port captaincy services for all China ports

With experienced port captains from our Huayang Maritime Services division, we are one of the few port agencies that offers the additional service of port captaincy. Therefore, you can enjoy the convenience of having all-in-one agency for your port operations.

Bill of Lading issuing and switching

With WSS Bill of Lading services, not only do we reduce your workload, we also provide an extra layer of security protecting you and your customer from any attempts at fraud.

WSS delivers bill of lading services for any amendments needed, or when you are required to split and reissue into several bill of ladings. What this means for you is one less headache as our team is well established and well experienced. 

Our expertise:

• Clear Approvals: Clear archiving for each case we handle, so we never deviate from your instructions
• Auditability: All our suppliers from couriers have been audited to ensure that every step on the way to your bill of lading switching or splitting is completely safe and secure
• Experienced specialists in Shanghai: With “two pairs of eyes on every bill” both our load port agency and Bill of Lading team ensure you never encounter any delays

Defraud is a relatively common issue in China when it comes to Bill of Ladings. In order to counter this, we utilize encryption, high-security stamps and high-security couriers. 

Upon switching or splitting the bill of lading, we strive to get the bill of lading delivered to you at the earliest opportunity so you meet your commitments. Customers can opt for local or regional deliveries and even tap on our emergency capabilities for emergency deliveries.