The Product

VesselBot is a digital chartering marketplace that provides strategic operating and financially efficient benefits for Charterers and Vessel Owners by enabling them, through our platform, to instantaneously identify the best possible counterparty whilst utilizing the least possible company resources at a significantly lower cost than the traditional chartering houses.

Our dedicated team of Maritime specialists is on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to personally deal with any problems that may arise between parties from the initiation to the completion of all shipments arranged via the VesselBot platform.

Furthermore, our leading team of Maritime experts are available, on request, to provide an advisory service which offers market insights, route freight rate indications, negotiation facilitation, charter party terms and post fixing operations etc., for both Charterers and Vessel Owners.

The Problem

For the last 5,000 years of shipping the business model had not changed too much. Changes in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) make a new business model viable. The “Smart-Shipping” model focuses on the transport performance of the company/fleet as a whole, rather than a collection of individual ships, resulting in wide reaching improvements in transport productivity; safety; personnel development; and logistics. (Dr. Martin Stopford)

Manual Process

Ship owners and charterers wishing to charter a vessel have to go through the complex and time consuming manual process of reviewing thousands of emails with offers from Shipbrokers in order to identify prospective matches.

Business

Currently ship owners and charterers rely extensively on the information provided by the brokers with whom they cooperate regarding the prevailing market hire rates at given ports.

Sensitive Process

Choosing the right Charterer / Ship Owner to cooperate with, is a very sensitive process which needs to be executed in a very timely manner.

Tedious Process

The manual way in which chartering is currently processed and the number of different mediums used makes it a very tedious process for both parties and does not allow either to effectively make the best possible informed decision.

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The Solutionfor

Vessel Owners
Vessel Charterers

New Customers

Rating Mechanism

Low Commission Cost

Less Resources Utilized

Informed Decision Making

Higher Net Voyage

Vessel owners are able to gain access to a medium to promote their vessels to a broader spectrum of Charterers.

Through our rating system Vessel Owners will be able to ensure that the service they receive from their counterparty is of good quality.

Lower costs through efficiencies achieved in the Chartering department, as well as lower commission fees payable to shipbrokers.

Through the usage of the platform and the automation of several processes Vessel Owners achieve significant reductions in their operating cost.

Our platform’s algorithm provides an intelligent analysis of available data for Vessel Owners, enabling them to achieve the best market rates for their vessels in accordance with their chartering strategy.

Our platform only proposes the best positioned vessels, resulting in reduced ballast voyages and associate running costs, notably in bunker charges. Additionally, due the concentration of data and broader geographic coverage, the waiting time and time spent positioning the vessel are also reduced, benefiting the industry as a whole by minimizing the deviation time as well as idle time incurred by the Ship owner.

Discovery

Rating Mechanism

Lower Cost

Informed Decision Making

A wider geographic area in which vessels can be made available and with shorter spread between loading dates.

Through VesselBot’s rating system the Vessel charterers will be able to ensure the service received by their counterparty is of good quality.

The cost efficiencies our platform will achieve for ship Owners will be translated into more competitive prices for Charterers. Additionally, due to the concentration of carefully selected specialized data and broader geographic coverage, reductions in waiting time and time spent positioning vessels will benefit the industry as a whole in the form of reduced ballast bonuses and demurrage payable by charterers.

Our platform’s algorithm will provide an intelligent automated analysis of available data enabling vessel Charterers to secure the best market rates for shipping their cargo.

Get in touch with us

and get your ship and cargoes moving.

190 Siggrou Av.,17671
Kallithea, Athens, Greece
Erasmus Center of Entrepreneurship
3029 AK Rotterdam, Netherlands

Intelligence, Out Of The Blue

A digital chartering marketplace which brings Charterers and Vessel Owners together in the Bulk Maritime industry. VesselBot's use of technology is unprecedented in the Shipping Industry and is what will change the chartering process forever.