Chartering made easy with new startup

An innovative and technologically advanced broker has come up with a new platform, VesselBot, to facilitate the time-consuming and at times chaotic process of chartering merchant ships.

The VesselBot team has created a digital chartering marketplace that covers each stage of chartering: from the finding of the cargo, the negotiation of the price, the charter party and finally the deal between the vessel owner and charterer.

"Our databases have the technical specifications of every active dry bulk cargo vessel in the world's fleet, that is, about 11,500 vessels," says one of the founders of the startup and the inspiration behind the platform, Constantine Komodromos.

"Our technology allows us to locate potentially available ships across the entire dry bulk market for each cargo, whether the ships are already cooperating with us or not."

VesselBot has developed...