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Predict demurrage using data from 38.2m digitised SoF events

  • Accurately estimate port costs and turnaround times
  • Identify fixture opportunities and risks
  • Achieve sharper, faster, freight pricing
  • Now integrated with the Veson IMOS Platform
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How to improve your voyage estimates with PortLog Pro

Even faster, more accurate voyage estimates

  • Estimate laytime from digitised SOFs, CP terms and seasonal impact data
  • Create FDA-based port cost estimates
  • Assess fixture risk and opportunities while running calculations

Integrate with your Veson IMOS Platform

  • Update voyage estimates in a few clicks
  • Receive alerts and insights, including risk of terminal queue skipping and waiting for tide
  • Compare exposure between terminals with quick links back into PortLog

Understand CP term impact on laytime

  • Simulate the impact of different CP terms or arrival times
  • Compare previous fixtures with current terms
  • Make the best possible data-driven decisions

Plus access to PortLog Core tools:

  • Rain Estimator
  • First come first served index
  • Holiday calendar
  • Terminal efficiency
  • Agent request

Use 38.2m digitised SoF events to generate more accurate voyage estimates

PortLog offers customers digitised, cleansed, standardised, and fully anonymised data to help with improving the accuracy of estimating unpaid time. 

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[WEBINAR] Optimising freight pricing with PortLog

Master risk management by analysing unpaid time, terms, port costs and restrictions

Are you at risk of mispricing freight as a result of inaccurate voyage estimates?

Watch our webinar recording to discover how to leverage the 38.2m digitised port events in PortLog to improve the accuracy of your voyage estimates, maximise opportunities and better manage risk.

We co-create alongside our valued customers

We partner with our customers and keeping them at the center of everything we do, we design solutions to deliver the best possible experience for them and their evolving needs.

Find out how we’ve supported customers including Norden and Lauritzen Bulkers.

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How are predictions made in PortLog?

We digitise and standardise your Statements of Facts

We digitise your laytime-relevant CP terms

We digitise your DAs

We predict your likely terminal

We consider AIS, weather, and berth-level restrictions

To enable more accurate freight pricing and terminal-level demurrage predictions

See PortLog Pro in action

  • Compare the Veson IMOS Platform and PortLog Pro

    Compare your Veson IMOS Platform and PortLog Pro predictions and calculate USD impact (freight rate and TCE). Send simulation back to the Veson IMOS Platform.

  • PortLog data in your own Veson IMOS Platform

    PortLog is a Veson Platform Partner. Get port costs and estimates of unpaid time at the click button, directly into your Veson IMOS Platform.

  • Apply PortLog time estimates to your IMOS calculation

    SHEX factor will be set to 1.0000 if not already the case. Demurrage rate must be entered for IMOS to calculate demurrage and despatch revenue correctly.

  • Apply cost estimates to your IMOS calculation

    Click 'Apply to Estimate' and send PortLog cost estimates directly into your Veson IMOS Platform.
  • Estimate laytime and optimise your demurrage rate

    Estimate the laytime impact of a port call based on SOF data and CP terms.
    Stay ahead by using PortLog Pro's prediction of demurrage vs despatch and reduce dependency on tacit port knowledge.

  • Smart warning messages in PortLog Pro

    See the biggest reasons for unpaid time and receive smart warning messages in PortLog Pro and the Veson IMOS Platform.

  • New Agent Request feature

    PortLog customers can easily request PDAs and restrictions from 7,000+ agents covering 3,000+ ports, view and contact their preferred agents and personalise messages. These can all be done with the support of the PortLog team, ensuring agents respond.

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News

Busting the myth of ‘covered by demurrage’

3-minute read The time is now for chartering managers to progress from traditional, less accurate calculation methods when predicting laytime and unpaid time in ports. Managing time and costs in ports is a key business consideration for dry bulk shipowners and operators, but traditional methods being used to predict them ...
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Data’s vital role in maritime business resilience

Sigrid Teig, Director of Strategic Customer Partnerships at Marcura, recently offered her unique perspectives at the “Making Data Actionable – A Workshop” session on the opening day of Geneva Dry 2024 ...
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Webinar: Optimising freight pricing with PortLog

Watch our webinar recording to discover how to leverage the 38.2m digitised port events in PortLog to improve the accuracy of your voyage estimates, maximise opportunities and better manage risk ...
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Customer views

Utilising an advanced platform like PortLog is representative of our commitment to delivering a more optimised and efficient freight service in our customers’ supply chain.

Pacific Basin

PortLog enhances our competitive advantage, provides more value for our customers and supports the decarbonisation of the shipping industry.

Dry Bulk

The speed and the accessibility of having the relevant and the right information in our calculation have improved massively by having the integration with PortLog Pro.

Tanker

Having PortLog for every voyage calculation is essential.

Norden

Having PortLog will enable you to see risk where it is.

Lauritzen Bulkers

The data from PortLog Pro enables us to make better decisions.

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