:: AEROMED INTERNATIONAL INC.

Sister company to Pandiman, Aeromed Inc. was formed and registered in December 1987 to fulfill a separate, specific need of shipowners - that of providing qualified medical escorts to those crew members scheduled for repatriation, yet requiring suitable supervision in transit. Aeromed has developed a "bank" of Filipino doctors and specialists whose practices or routine work allow their being utilised by Aeromed at a moments notice to go abroad and accompany home a seafaring fellow countryman in need. The advantages of utilising an Aeromed medical are:

1. Rates highly competetive with those of foreign medical escorts.
2. Solace to seaman patients as a result of being escorted by a fellow countryman.
3. Medical escorts are top in their field and yet instantly able to respond to a call for assistance from Aeromed staff

Philippine immigration laws dictate that Filipinos with tourist status must hold a round-trip ticket when exiting the Philippines. Therefore, Aeromed attends to all travel arrangements of assigned medical escorts and can also assist with the patient's travel needs including ambulance services, delivery to the hospital for immediate treatment, etc.

Full insurance coverage is put in place prior to each escort's out departure to ensure appropriate and full coverage of the escort's round-trip and of his patient's return home. The condition of the patients is taken into consideration when assessing the type and degree of coverage necessary.

Aeromed services are not limited to P&I work or to the Filipino Seafarer and can be availed of by any patient to and from anywhere in the world. For further information or assistance, please call Ms. Corazon Tabuena at (632) 527-7831 or e-mail her at cctabuena@pandiman.com

:: SURVEY SPECIALISTS INCORPORATED

Another associated company of Pandiman Philippines, Inc., Survey Specialists Incorporated (SSI) was founded in February, 1989. Upon appointment by PPI or other clients, they perform surveys on vessels and cargos on behalf of the Owners or Charterers. SSI is staffed with eight competent surveyors, well experienced in all types of marine surveys including:

1. Vessel's General Condition and Pre-purchace Surveys
2. On/Off Hire Surveys
3. Hull and Machinery Surveys
4. Draft Surveys
5. Oil Spill and Pollution Investigation
6. Bunker Surveys
7. Marine Bulk Crude Oil and Petroleum Surveys
8. Loading, Stowage and Securing
9. Cargo Surveys
10. Loss Prevention Surveys
11. Cargo Superintendence
12. Container Surveys
13. Pre-Shipment Surveys
14. Cargo Losses and Damage Surveys
15. Loss Investigation and Consultancy

The Company is the principal surveyors for Pandiman Philippines Inc., which function as Philippine correspondents for P&I Clubs worldwide. In 1990, Maersk-Filipinas, Inc., appointed SSI as their surveyors for the condition survey of vessels and containers. Furtheremore, SSI is accredited (1992) with the Norwegian Hull Club, a hull underwriter in Norway and has been appointed as Flag State Surveyors/Nautical Inspectors by the Administration of Antigua and Barbuda West Indies to conduct safety inspections of their registered vessels. SSI's clients include Yang Ming Line Philippines, Wan Hai Lines (Philippines), Inc., NMC Container Lines, Inc., China Shipping Manila Agency, Inc., General Milling Corporation, MARCARE (Bramerhaven, Germany), SPLIETHOFF (Germany, UCPB General Insurance (Cebu City) and many others.

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