From open position to final settlement.

For cargo owners, traders and industrial buyers

Voyage charters

A ship for a cargo, from load port to discharge port, at a freight rate per tonne or a lump sum. We provide the tonnage, pay the bunkers, port costs and canal dues, and deliver against a laycan we will meet. Terms on BIMCO forms, adapted to the trade.

Contracts of affreightment

For regular shipments: a tonnage commitment over a season or a year, with the ships nominated as the programme firms up. The client gets certainty of freight and lifting; we get the planning horizon to fix tonnage well.

Trip time charters

For clients who prefer to direct the voyage themselves, we sublet tonnage for a trip or a short period, with our operations team in support.

For shipowners

Period and trip employment

We take Handysize to Capesize vessels on time charter, for single trips or periods of months, with delivery in the Far East, the Indian Ocean, the Gulf, Southern Africa, the Black Sea or the Continent as our cargo book requires. Hire is paid on time. Bunkers are of the grade and quantity agreed. Ships are redelivered as taken.

Operations

• Voyage planning and estimating: distances, speed and consumption, ECA fuel changes, canal and strait transits, weather routeing, and the cost of each before it is fixed.
• Port agency: agents appointed and instructed at every port, proforma disbursement accounts checked line by line, final accounts settled.
• Bunkers: stems bought at the right port at the right quantity, quality specified and tested, with quantity surveys where the cargo or the counterparty warrants it.
• Laytime, demurrage and despatch: notices of readiness, statements of facts and laytime calculations prepared promptly and argued on the evidence.
• Documentation: bills of lading, letters of indemnity, cargo documents and charter party recaps handled with the care that stops disputes before they start.
• Claims: handled in-house with the support of our P&I club and, where needed, counsel experienced in London and Singapore arbitration.

Cargoes

Thermal and coking coal, iron and manganese ore, chrome and bauxite, wheat, corn, barley and soybeans, fertilisers in bulk, sulphur, clinker, cement and aggregates, petcoke, and steel products. If it can be loaded by grab or spout into a hold, we have most likely carried it.