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Demurrage is avoidable if you can see the clock.

Vessel and shipment nomination, laycan management, loading and discharge, laytime calculation, demurrage exposure and independent quality inspection against contract specification.

The problem

Demurrage is one of the largest avoidable costs in physical trading, and it accrues while nobody is watching a clock that started at notice of readiness.

Quality is the second exposure: a cargo that arrives off-specification turns a completed trade into a claim, and the position on that claim depends entirely on the inspection record.

Core workflow

Nomination to discharge.

01
Nomination
Vessel nominated and accepted, laycan agreed.
02
Pre-shipment
Inspection booked, documents prepared.
03
Loading
Notice of readiness, laytime clock starts.
04
In transit
Position, ETA and title tracked.
05
Discharge
Outturn quantity and quality recorded.
06
Laytime
Calculated, demurrage or despatch settled.
What it covers

Shipment

Vessel nomination and acceptanceLaycan and berth schedulingCharter party termsBill of lading dataMulti-parcel shipments

Laytime

Notice of readinessLaytime calculationDemurrage and despatchStatement of factsExposure alerts before breach

Quality

Contract specificationIndependent inspectionLoad and discharge assayWeight and quantity varianceClaims and settlement
Operational outcomes
USD 412k
Demurrage avoided this year
Live
Laytime clock per shipment
100%
Shipments with inspection on file
−34%
Quality claims raised against us

Ranges observed on Al Jawad engagements. Targets agreed in assessment.

Reconstruct laytime on one shipment.

We rebuild the laytime calculation on a recent voyage and show what a live clock would have saved.