What your account says it is, is a lens and not a price
An account states what it is, and that word changes which screens lead and what the language on them says. It does not gate anything and it does not change what you pay. An owner sees the fleet first and a broker sees the position list first, and either can switch to the other view without buying anything.
The realistic buyer is a small desk on Excel and Outlook
Two to ten people, a mailbox full of circulars, and a spreadsheet nobody trusts by Thursday. That is the problem this was built against, and it is why the pages below talk about losing a cargo in a mailbox rather than about enterprise workflow. A desk with an ops team and a six-figure budget is buying something else.
The desks
- Ship brokersThe job itself: circulars in, the match you make, the fixture out. Shipbroking software for a desk that owns neither the cargo nor the ship.
- A small broking deskTwo to ten brokers, no ops team, and a mailbox doing the job of a database. The case this product was built for.
- Dry bulkGrain, ore, coal and the vessel classes that carry them, with the tonnage matching a dry cargo desk does forty times a week.
- Project cargo and heavy liftBreakbulk and project moves, where the cargo has dimensions rather than a tonnage and the ship has to be able to lift it.
- Ship ownersThe hulls you claim from the register, with the certificate folder, the survey calendar and the inspection history the register cannot know.
- Cargo owners and charterersPost what you need moved and reach owners and brokers directly. Free, and it does not require you to run a chartering desk.
Not sure which of these is you? The plans are the same whichever you pick, and an account costs nothing to open.