Hey all,
I’ve been working on a tool for the past couple of weeks after hearing about a problem from a buddy of mine who works in operations at a large commodities trading firm.
He mentioned that part of his job is basically *verifying* demurrage charges. It seems that a lot of the time, shipping companies are pretty sneaky when applying (or conveniently not applying) reductions. That surprised me, because demurrage feels like something that should be deterministic. In practice, it’s not treated that way.
So I built a tool that:
* Takes a Statement of Facts and the Charter Party
* Automatically calculates demurrage and despatch
* Flags inconsistencies and edge cases that usually require manual checking
I’m curious if anyone here would want to be an early user and try it out. Right now, I’ve been testing it myself with a few users in the industry and am opening it up to get more feedback. If you’d like to try it out, please DM me.
My background is in building software products, and I think this tool could be genuinely useful. I also see a lot of potential extensions I could build on top of it, so I’d love to hear what people think.
Thanks!