Next-generation fixture management
Unlock more efficient fixture management with Sea’s intuitive digital solution. Offering a range of features for smoother, more transparent negotiations and fixtures, it is designed to address common challenges and streamline maritime trade operations.
Overcome a lack of standardisation
Poor standardisation across chartering processes, terms, clauses, contracts, and benchmarking can limit liquidity and hamper growth. Sea offers one-click replication of previous fixtures, allowing you to use pre-sets and pre-defined distribution groups for creating and sending market orders.
Stop operating in silos
Information, data, and processes often exist in silos, meaning manual intervention is required to connect data and workflows. This can be challenging when it comes to data-driven decision making. Sea overcomes this by providing a central, collaborative platform with flexible points of entry from a workflow perspective.
Reduce the complexity of fixture management
With so many variables impacting trading decisions, it can be difficult to manage and track fixture performance. Sea offers access to a vast network of brokers and shipowners for stronger collaboration and complete oversight of all your orders in one place. Enjoy on-screen negotiation monitoring, including the latest sea freight rates and vessel nominations, as well as comprehensive management overviews and the functionality to withdraw your distributed order in the event of unexpected changes.
Improve governance
The internal and external governance requirements involved in fixture management puts pressure on organisations to implement, operate and evidence robust auditable frameworks and processes. Sea makes this easy, offering central governance of terms, audit history, clauses and fixtures. The solution also ensures essential information and requirements are surfaced early on.
Enhanced fixture management for smarter operations
Gain complete control over your
fixtures
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Create market orders with ease
Save time creating market orders. Sea’s software pre-populates fields based on your past orders. Simply select the ‘Preset’ button and the relevant fields on your market order form will be automatically filled with previously set values – no need for manual data entry with each new order.
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Get more offers with efficient market order distribution
Take control of your market order with Sea’s one-click distribution. Offering a fully customisable distribution list, our solution saves you time and removes the risk of missing a vital counterparty. Whether you use mailing lists to reach a wide network of ship owners and brokers, or target only select individual email addresses, Sea helps ensure your market order reaches the right recipients. The result? You receive more offers, allowing you to negotiate the best terms for your cargo requirements.
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Negotiate the best terms for the right cargo-to-ship match
Maximise the value of your cargo or fleet. Sea’s Fixture Management solution gives you full oversight of all opportunities and commitments in one place. Start negotiations by receiving and countering offers until a negotiation is fully fixed, and the cargo is matched with the right vessel. And stay informed with real-time email notifications and updates to your trading desk.
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Integrated compliance and automated documentation
Ensure transparency and regulatory compliance with quick access to pre-loaded terms and centralised governance of terms, audit history, clauses, and fixtures. Streamline your workflows by automatically creating and safely editing, sharing, and managing contracts within a unified system thanks to the integration with Sea’s Contract Management solution – an industry standard for recaps and charterparties. Included in this integration is a Vessel Compliance feature. Available exclusively for the wet market through our partner PurpleTRAC, this integrates vessel compliance and sanctions screening into your workflows and secures real-time compliance monitoring.
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Capture every deal – on and off the platform
Centralise all fixtures within one system. Deal Capture allows you to manually record negotiations fixed off-platform and generate voyage charterparties directly from entries without involving counterparties. With all deals feeding into analytics and contracts, Sea’s Fixture Management solution ensures more accurate analytics data.
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Analytics to optimise your freight fixtures
Get the data you need to track and benchmark the performance of your freight fixtures. Our solution makes it easy to extract and analyse key metrics so you can assess counterparty performance, track freight saving metrics, and conduct clause analysis to enhance your performance and drive data-led decision-making. Sea’s Fixture Management software also enables you to perform Baltic Index benchmarking for market comparisons, generate broker performance reports to evaluate the effectiveness of negotiations, and conduct route analysis to optimise shipping paths.
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Intuitive features for streamlined Fixture Management
- Comprehensive list of global vessels – including details, via Sea Intelligence and Analytics integration
- Full overview of all orders and negotiations –via trading desk
- One-click distribution of market orders – send to your organisation’s shared or private mailing lists
- Customisable templates for market orders and terms – save time and remove the risk of errors associated with manual input
- Record all your negotiations – even those not fixed using Sea Fixture Management
- Automated notifications for negotiations – set timers for offers and subjects so all parties understand the negotiation status
- Automated and customisable email notifications
- Automatically generate recaps and charterparties – via Sea Contracts integration
- As per last feature – replicates previously negotiated terms for new fixtures and contracts, to maximise efficiency
- Access analytics and benchmarks – view fixed shipping freight rates vs indices
- Pass control to your broker – our solution is ideal for managed negotiations, allowing your broker to act on your behalf throughout the fixture process
Trusted by
We now have 100% of our fixtures moving through the platform. This has brought standardisation to the fixture negotiation and management process which has been welcomed by the counterparties that we work with on a regular basis. We very much see the implementation of Sea as ‘best practice’ and hope that, with wider adoption, the whole industry can realise similar benefits and progress together.
GUILHERME BREGA, Head of Shipping for Vale
Explore the Intelligent
Marketplace for Fixing Freight
The Intelligent Marketplace for Fixing Freight is shipping’s largest digital ecosystem. Sea brings you an all-in-one suite of maritime software solutions that has been developed by experts with deep industry knowledge.
Fixture Management is one of three key pillars that make up the Intelligent Marketplace for Fixing Freight. Together, these digital tools simplify your fixture process – from start to finish – using just a single log in.
Our innovative data flywheel approach allows information to flow effortlessly between each solution. Data captured in each stage is automatically utilised across the platform, for enhanced decision-making and improved efficiency across the board.
This isn’t just software. The Intelligent Marketplace for Fixing Freight is a smarter, more connected approach to maritime freight management.
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