GeoMarineHub

Procedure · the buyer journey

From requisition to proof of delivery, without a single phone call

The demand side of GeoMarineHub is free — registration, requests, comparisons, all of it. This is the whole journey.

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Plate — the buyer’s side of the procedure, annotated above the line.
  1. 01

    Register your company — free

    Ship owners, managers, operators and charterers use GeoMarineHub at no cost: free registration, unlimited requests, unlimited quote comparisons. No commission is charged on anything supplied to you — chartering fixtures are the one exception, carrying the trade’s standard 1.25% from each party only when a fixture concludes.

  2. 02

    Build the requirement

    Pick the vessel, the port and the ETA. Add lines from the 51,000-item IMPA-standard catalog or as manual items with explicit units. A draft cart follows you across devices until you submit.

    GeoMarineHub requisition builder showing IMPA-coded lines with quantities and units for a call at Jebel Ali, and the number of suppliers who will be notified
    The requisition builder, captured from the live platform.
  3. 03

    The platform routes it — sealed

    Lines are grouped by service automatically: provisions and bunkers in one cart become separate requests, each sent only to verified suppliers activated at your port in those categories. Suppliers see your vessel type, ETA, terms and lines — never your name. Before you submit, you see exactly how many suppliers will be notified.

  4. 04

    Compare sealed bids, line by line

    Bids arrive anonymized and priced per canonical unit, so quotes are genuinely comparable. Your payment terms were visible to suppliers before they priced — no surprises on either side. Port-call bidding closes at your vessel’s ETA; freight requests have no ETA cutoff and stay open until you award or cancel.

  5. 05

    Award and talk

    Accept one bid; identities are revealed to both sides, a private chat opens, and the order is confirmed with the accepted line prices. Losing bidders are told their bid closed.

  6. 06

    Track to the berth

    The order runs a server-enforced lifecycle — received, preparing, in transit, delivered, completed. Delivery requires documentary proof from the supplier. Everything is measured against your ETA and flagged the moment it runs late, because the vessel sails either way.

    GeoMarineHub order view showing the immutable status timeline from order received to completed, delivery proof, priced line items and the private chat with the supplier
    An order tracked to documented delivery, captured from the live platform.
  7. 07

    Close it out

    Confirm receipt (or the order auto-completes after seven quiet days), rate the supplier, and keep the full immutable history — every status change, actor, note and document.

Post a requirement — freeBecome a supplier
Vessel owner guide (PDF) →Charterer guide (PDF) →The supplier side →

Requests by e-mail · no account needed

Not ready to open an account? Send the requisition anyway

Every step above is free, but none of it is a precondition. Forward the requisition you are already holding and our desk turns it into the same sealed-bid comparison — you can claim the account afterwards, once you have seen the prices.

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How it works, and what we can read →
  1. 01

    Send

    Excel, PDF or typed into the mail — whatever your system produced.

  2. 02

    Receipt

    Within minutes, naming what we read and anything we could not.

  3. 03

    Offers

    Priced by verified suppliers at the port, back on the same thread.

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The mobile app · iPhone & Android

Post it from the quay, not from the office

The same requirement, the same sealed bids, on a phone: write it at the berth, keep it as a draft until the ETA is fixed, and get a push the moment a supplier answers.

Download onApp StoreiPhone & iPadDownload onGoogle PlayAndroid phones & tablets
What the app does →