30/09/2025
DIGITAL SURVEYING FOR MEKONSULT LIMITED POWERED BY ARL-SHIPPING.COM SURVEY AND TALLY SMARTPHONE APPS
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA – Mekonsult digitise cargo and container inspection forms eradicating the need for paperwork during inspections and office (re-)typing of inspection results. The smartphone input including photos is automatically sync'ed to the cloud and included in customer reports. Additionally, the survey and tally apps benefit from built-in smartphone sensors, like automatic GPS location tags and timestamps capturing, and barcode/QR OCR scanning using smartphone's camera and unique transportation logic.
Savio Fernandes, Mekonsult General Manager, states: "moving to a digital platform allow us to compare with, or surpass, substantially larger survey institutions, yet keeping our personal touch providing survey and tally services to our customers, and we expect the edge provided by digitising the survey process to support our growth in the East African market". arl-shipping.com Director, Rene Bendt, adds that "whilst arl-shipping.com now provide tally and survey apps for any cargo type, the in-a-box app-approach paired with a powerful configurator and industry-leading set of standard reports, allows arl-shipping.com to support survey and tally services providers operating both in seaports and inland".
arl's survey and tally apps are born "Africa-ready" with support in Swahili, Oromo and Somali languages, as well as Sepedi, Sesotho, Tsonga, Xhosa, Zulu for further south.