Service line 06 · Live
Chartering
Owners list tonnage; charterers post cargo; the fixture concludes on-platform — blind until the end.
Live on the platform: list a vessel or post a cargo from the portal today, negotiate blind in structured rounds, and conclude a documented fixture with identities revealed only at the end.
The service
What the chartering desk covers
Voyage and time charter fixtures — rates per day, lumpsum, or per metric tonne. Owners and disponent owners list tonnage with specification and position; charterers browse listed vessels or post cargo requirements for owners to answer. The desk’s one structural rule: identities stay sealed on both sides until the fixture concludes, so a position can’t be triangulated from a name and a deal can’t be shopped around the market while it’s being worked.
Process
From position to concluded fixture
- 01
An owner lists: vessel type, DWT, build year, current position and availability. Listings are visible to registered charterers only — never on the open web — and the vessel’s name stays hidden until conclusion.
- 02
A charterer opens on a listed vessel with a full term sheet — rate, laycan, ports, demurrage — or posts a cargo requirement that owners answer blind. Rival owners never see each other’s offers or how many are competing.
- 03
Offers and counters move through the platform, blind. Each side has three offers, every offer carries a deadline — 48 hours unless you set otherwise — and if both parties want more room, a mutual extension adds a round. Structure, not unlimited haggling: the round budget keeps numbers honest.
- 04
When a live offer is accepted, the fixture concludes: identities and the vessel’s name open to both parties, the fixture is documented, and the split commission falls due — nothing was owed before this moment.
Inputs & outputs
What each side provides, and what comes back
Owners provide the vessel’s type, deadweight, build year, position and availability — anything further in the listing notes. Charterers provide cargo, quantity, load and discharge ports, laycan window, and the vessel type and DWT range they need. Back: a concluded, documented fixture both parties hold identical records of, and a negotiation history that stayed inside the platform — every offer, message and decision preserved in order, nothing editable after the fact.
Qualification
Who gets in
- 01
The market is closed to the open web: only registered company accounts see listings or cargo postings.
- 02
No offer moves in either direction until the company behind it passes verification — an anonymous negotiation only works when every anonymous party is a vetted, accountable business.
- 03
Contact details are blocked in negotiation messages until conclusion — the blindness is enforced, not requested.
Documentation
What paperwork comes out
The concluded fixture record — parties, vessel, terms, and conclusion date — retained identically for both sides, with the full negotiation history preserved. The charter party itself is executed between the parties in their chosen form; the platform documents the fixture and the commission, it does not replace the CP.
Trade practice
Standard practice, kept
Commission is 1.25% from the owner and 1.25% from the charterer, charged only on a concluded fixture — the address-commission logic the trade already runs on, with no subscription and nothing owed on a deal that dies. Blind negotiation is the platform’s addition: the discipline of a closed book applied to a market that famously leaks.
From the log — Chartering