Cargo and open tonnage, posted across desks

Two kinds of posting. A cargo: commodity, quantity, load and discharge port or region, laycan, the charter type and the terms line. A ship: her name and particulars as the owner chose to publish them, where she is open and between which dates. Each carries who posted it, by company name or by kind alone, and a reference a counterparty can quote back.

The board opened on 25 August 2026. What is live on it is counted from the database that serves it, so the figure is shown here when the browser has it and not typed into the page.

The poster chooses per posting. Named prints the company on the board. Anonymous prints the kind, "a ship owner" or "a cargo owner", and nothing else until the poster answers an enquiry, at which point the enquirer, and only the enquirer, sees who they are talking to.

An enquirer is always named to the poster. A message from nobody cannot be answered, so every enquiry carries the sender's name, company and address, and one desk may send one enquiry per posting. After the first reply both sides have each other's address and the negotiation continues where it always has, by mail and the phone. The board is where a conversation starts, not where it is held.

Nothing from a desk's notes. A posting is a snapshot of the fields the poster chose, taken when they press the button, and the record it came from stays in their own book. A rate idea is off unless the poster ticks it on. And nothing is posted by a machine: the circulars and enquiries that arrive in a connected mailbox are read into that desk's own board and go no further, because a circular sent to twenty brokers was not sent to the market.

Three postings live at once, on the account you land on when you sign up without choosing a plan. It takes no card. 7 days of Desk are free when you want them. Withdrawing a posting frees its slot, so the ceiling limits how much of the board one account occupies and never how often it trades. Paid plans raise it: ten on Desk, twenty-five on Chartering, no ceiling on Fleet.

A ship posted by her own owner or manager carries a verified-owner mark. It means a person at Neptune Labs has read the certificate of registry or the management agreement that names that company against that hull; a broker offering the same ship on an owner's behalf posts without the mark and is no less welcome.

Brokers are welcome and are most of the platform. A broker with a ship for a posted stem answers it exactly as an owner would, and a broker with a stem posts it exactly as a cargo owner would.

A posting for a ship is made against the world fleet register, so her IMO number, deadweight, year built and size class are the register's and not retyped. A posting for a cargo names its ports from the same 11,425 geocoded ports the distance tool and the estimator use, so a desk reading it can price the voyage from the board in one press.

Ship owners have a page of their own, as do cargo owners and charterers, and the plans say what each tier holds.