Handles cargo/voyage estimates based on fixed or actual parameters, allowing offers, counter offers, contract preparation and issuing of final fixture note. Collected data is available for comparison with operational results.

 

Chartering Manager

Voyage Estimates
Easy and rapid calculation of voyage costs and estimated Profit/Loss of a voyage through
Integrated distance table & chart based distance calculation

• Automatic port and canal cost estimation
• Calculation of heating consumption and cleaning expenses
• Predefined commissions for charterer / broker or manual input
• Worldscale support
• Usage of predefined commissions for charterers and brokers or manual input

Offers / Terms
Automatic creation of documents; offer forms and company terms, including details about:

• Cargo (cargo options, comments, previous options)
• Ports (load options, discharge options, port history)
• Rates (flat, demurrage, historical rates)
• Terms (Previous clauses, Company specific clauses, Standard clauses)
• Commission (broker, charterer, last cargoes' commission, commission history, comments)

Options

• Event based connectivity to operations follow -up
• Freight collection
• Connection with messaging system

Vessel Administration
Parameters for the Profit/Loss calculation of each voyage are defined either per fleet, per group of vessels or for specific vessels.The following data is defined:

• Bunker consumption 3 speeds supported (economy, cruise and maximum). Values are either user-defined or can be automatically calculated as an average of past values resulting from the Operations Manager module
• Bunker expenses
• User definable values or averages calculated from historical values of previous purchases, resulting from the Purchasing Manager - module
• Operating Expenses (OPEX)
• Operating expenses can be introduced as a fixed value or calculated from Annual Budget, Current Quarter Budget or an average of a definable period, with data coming from the Finance Manager module
• Capital Expenses (CAPEX)
• User definable or monthly allocation from the Finance Manager module
• TCE Break Even (Time Charter Equivalent)
• User definable or as a total of OPEX + CAPEX
• In each case all data used in previous calculations are available to the user.

Port/Canal/OPA Expenses
Data for Ports and Canals can be :

• User defined per vessel class and cargo situation (laden /ballast) or
• Automatically calculated as an average of the last visits /passages during the past Y days
• Canal differentials and OPA expenses are tracked.

Cargo Registration
The Source of Requirement and the Type of Trade are registered for further use in the Chartering Workflow.
Supported Types of Trade :

• Spot
• Consecutive
• Contract of Afreightment
• Time Charter

Market Fixture
Market data either own or competitor's data can be recorded in and are available for later query during the Chartering process.