#charterwatch

We’ve had a team in Bergen this week - Dewi from the UK and Alex from Vancouver working with Grieg Star on releasing a new module in our Charter Watch application specifically for Greig. This will help their ‘Booking Agents’ manage the request for freight process from initial capture of the possible cargo, to indication, offer, negotiation and booking. Not only does it create a common workspace for Grieg’s own team, but it draws in their commercial partners (shipbrokers and representatives) into a close collaborative workflow. It’s built on our ongoing work with other Charter Watch customers (such as Spliethoff) and will see the system extended to manage a wider range of breakbulk cargoes as well. There will also be integration with the Dataloy Voyage Management System creating an end to end process for the chartering team.

We just finished an update to our Charter Watch product. It lets chartering users quickly copy over previous requests, indications and offers to a new project cargo shipment (we’re expanding it to bulk cargo in the near future). It’s part of our ongoing work with Grieg Star Shipping who are using Charter Watch to manage their global project cargo chartering process. Converting users from individual spreadsheets, templates and terms that were different across offices into one system is improving collaboration, time to offer and knowledge sharing.