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When talking about optimisation in bulk shipping, most people imagine a black-box optimisation algorithm that is magically capable of generating an optimal schedule for you. I don’t believe this will be a reality anytime in the foreseeable future. What then, is a better approach? Read on to find out!

In the latest Seaber blog post, our VP Product Arto Viitanen will focus on how to identify and bid for the spot cargoes that best fit the current schedule plan and how to price the bids accordingly. Read on for his take on the 10 step process and how Seaber can help.

Doing voyage estimations one by one in a voyage management system and then summing them up for the entire schedule plan is possible, but gets crazy if you want to create and compare more than just one scenario. This is hard enough for single cargo voyages, but explodes in complexity when considering multi-parcel and multi-port voyages. Read on to see how Seaber can help.

According to an ICCT (International Council of Clean Transportation) report, bulk carriers globally are sailing 56% of the time in ballast, with small or no payload. As cargo flows are never symmetric, there will always be a need for ballast voyages. Read more about what our VP of Products Arto Viitanen suggests how ballast distance reduction could be achieved by shipowners.

In one of its magazines Digital ship features Seaber as one of the emerging technologies to help optimise schedules and communication. Seaber supports the planning of multiple cargoes and port calls on any category of vessel, in any combination, with full detail and an unlimited planning horizon. The software makes scheduling predictable and possible to optimise effectively.

At Seaber we know it is important to have working integrations with partnering technologies and systems our customers already have in use. By investing heavily on API integrations Seaber can simplify application development processes and easily connect and integrate with different applications. Read on to find out more about our most recent integration project with SAP.

There are several estimations on different sources on the size of bulk shipping, but regardless of the source, the numbers are impressive. In this blog post, we show three interesting infographics about the size of the bulk industry as well as discuss the amount of CO2 emissions it emits.