Extensive knowledge of a great variety of commodities such as fruit and vegetables, groundnuts, rice, cattle feed as well as other agricultural produce, plants, fresh cut flowers, flower-bulbs, meat, fish, coal, ores, minerals, solid and liquid chemicals, is available.
It is not solely the art of the assessment of the extent of the damage, though all parties involved (shippers, carriers, receivers as well as cargo-underwriters) do have benefit by the fact of a favourable loss/profit-statistic in progress of time.