M. H. Barrie & Associates Marine Surveyors

Founded in 1994 in Mobile, Alabama, M. H. Barrie & Associates Marine Surveyors has established itself as a comprehensive independent marine surveying company serving the Gulf Coast and Great Lakes regions. The company maintains its main office in downtown Mobile with an extensive service network spanning critical port cities across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, as well as coverage throughout the Great Lakes.

The firm's full-time staff consists exclusively of Master Mariners with diverse experience across all vessel types, bringing decades of practical seafaring knowledge to their surveying work. This deep maritime expertise enables their team to conduct thorough boat surveying and inspection services that address the increasingly sophisticated demands of modern ships and cargoes while maintaining traditional standards of seamanship. Each surveyor is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation that facilitates accurate measurement and quantity determination procedures, ensuring the detailed reports they produce provide immeasurable value to clients navigating complex marine transactions and operations.

M. H. Barrie & Associates offers a comprehensive range of marine surveying capabilities including condition and suitability assessments, investigation of marine incidents, oversight of oil pollution response cleanup operations, hull and machinery evaluations including vessel salvage situations, dock damage assessments, and cargo damage valuation and appraisal. Their expertise extends to bunker surveys, on-hire and off-hire inspections, container inspection services, and determination of bulk quantities through draft immersion computations and sampling analysis. The company also handles liquid transfer operations, contamination claims, out-turn losses, and petroleum cargo surveying, positioning them as versatile partners for ship owners, terminal operators, insurance companies, and cargo interests.

The company has strategically developed professional relationships with qualified marine engineers and meteorologists who collaborate on projects when specialized technical input is required. This network approach ensures clients receive comprehensive expertise across all aspects of marine casualty investigation and technical assessment. Their surveyors maintain twenty-four-hour availability through answering services that immediately contact the attending surveyor, providing responsive service regardless of when vessel arrivals or incidents occur.

With service centers positioned in major Gulf Coast ports from Brownsville and Houston through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Mobile, Pascagoula, and extending to Jacksonville, Port Everglades, Pensacola, and Panama City, M. H. Barrie & Associates has built the geographic coverage and local port knowledge essential for effective marine surveying operations. Their adaptability includes producing preliminary survey reports with digital photography transmitted via email from the field when time-sensitive situations demand immediate documentation. This combination of traditional maritime expertise, modern technology, and strategic positioning throughout the region's critical maritime infrastructure has enabled the company to serve the marine transport industry with reports marked by impartiality, independence, integrity, and confidentiality for nearly three decades.