International Yacht Surveyors and Consultants – Ward & McKenzie

Ward & McKenzie are a professional and independent yacht and marine consultancy business. We cover technical and regulatory matters and legal issues.A number of our team are accredited experts who are qualified to give expert evidence.

We have selected the very best and most experienced yacht surveyors based internationally within easy reach of your yacht to ensure we can offer the highest standards of survey and consultancy. Our support network of yacht surveyors and our experience as a well established yacht consultancy company allows us to give the yacht owner or purchaser the very best service.

Our surveyors able to deal with Yacht or Small craft surveys, under 30 metres, and Superyachts, over 30 metres.

In addition to our network of Outport surveyors we have representative offices in Palma de Mallorca, Moscow and Nikolaev (Ukraine).

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Small Craft Surveys

Marine surveys and being a marine surveyor of small craft is considered to be a profession - ask any good marine surveyor. However, it is a profession that legally requires no formal qualifications. Anybody can effectively become a marine surveyor and and sometimes they do! Any purchaser must be aware of this as there are more and more marine surveyors out there who are inexperienced, some may even claim to be well qualified. This is where Ward & McKenzie can help with your marine survey. See . . .

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  • Recent News

    • Ward & McKenzie Russia10 May 2012

      • We now have a small office in the World Trade Centre in Moscow which is administered by Anton Matveev. Alex Krykanyuk is no longer our representative in Moscow and the Ukraine.

    • Cyprus Yacht Leasing Scheme10 May 2012

      • The Cyprus VAT department has now published the much anticipated guidelines for this scheme. It is very similar to the Malta Scheme but with a number of attractive enhancements. If optimised a VAT rate of 3.4% can be achieved. Contact Ian Collett for more information.

    • ECOSuperyacht Emissions Management16 Jun 2011

      • ECOSuperyacht Emissions Managment, a specialist in providing energy efficiency and emission management services throught it’s ECO Seas Programme, have appointed Ward & McKenzie to act as it’s exclusive surveyor to undertake all technical inspections on the yachts participating in this programme.

    • Super Yacht Surveys

    Super yacht surveyors and surveys are part of a very specialised field which requires a different skills and knowledge set to that of smaller yacht surveys. Over the years we have gained considerable experience in dealing with all aspects of Super Yacht Ownership, such as planning Super Yacht new builds or refits, contracting with Sellers of Super Yachts, project management, technical inspections, . . .

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    Why Us

    There are many ‘yacht surveyors’ on the market, what should you the client look for and why should you choose Ward & McKenzie? Marine surveys and being a marine surveyor of small craft is considered to be a profession, ask any good marine surveyor. However, it is a profession that legally requires no formal qualifications. Anybody can effectively become a marine surveyor and anybody sometimes . . .

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