For · the demand side · Fleet & ship managers
Run fleet procurement from one account, at every port your vessels call
A technical manager’s port-call purchasing — provisions, bunkers, water, waste, agency — posted per vessel, answered with sealed bids, filed on one auditable trail across the whole fleet.
The situation
Managing procurement across a fleet means the same firefight multiplied: every vessel’s port call spawns its own email chains, its own local agent mark-ups, its own unverifiable quotes — and at audit time the paper lives in ten superintendents’ inboxes. Group deals help at hubs and leave every other port to improvisation.
GeoMarineHub gives the fleet one desk instead. Any superintendent posts a structured requirement for their vessel at the port of call; verified suppliers already activated there answer sealed, priced per canonical unit against your stated payment terms. Awards, orders and signed delivery notes file automatically — one trail, every vessel, every port.
How it works for you
01
Register the company once, free
One company account carries the team: invite superintendents and operators as sub-users with their own logins. The demand side pays nothing.
02
Post per vessel, at the port of call
Each requirement names its vessel and port; bidding closes at ETA. The vessel’s identity stays sealed from suppliers until you award.
03
Compare sealed bids on the numbers
Local suppliers you did not know exist bid beside the incumbents — anonymized, per canonical unit, genuinely comparable. Award on the figure, not the relationship.
04
Keep the fleet’s paper in one place
Orders, delivery notes signed on board, and billing sit on the account — the audit trail your office and your owners can both stand on.
What you pay — and don’t
Free for the fleet — with one honest exception
—Registration, sub-users, unlimited requirements and comparisons cost nothing, and no commission is charged on anything supplied to your vessels.
—The exception is chartering: a concluded fixture carries the trade’s standard 1.25% from each party — owed only when the fixture concludes, never before.
Questions buyers ask
- Can several superintendents work under one fleet account?
- Yes — the company registers once and invites the team as sub-users with their own logins; requirements, awards and delivery notes from every vessel file on the same account.
- What does fleet procurement on GeoMarineHub cost?
- Nothing on the supply side: unlimited requirements, comparisons and team members, with no commission on anything supplied to your vessels. The one exception is chartering, where a concluded fixture carries the trade’s standard 1.25% from each party.
- We already have contracted suppliers at our main ports — what do we gain?
- Coverage everywhere else, and a benchmark at home: your contracted rates can be tested against sealed local bids port by port, and the odd port with no incumbent stops being an improvisation.