For Shipowners
Welcome to SeaRates.com, the leading online platform connecting shipowners like you with the perfect cargo for your vessels. We understand the challenges of navigating the ever-changing freight market. Finding the right cargo at the right time can sometimes be a logistical nightmare. That's where we come in, helping you to optimize voyages and maximize profits.
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Thousands of ship loads in any area
Find bulk cargoes in seconds, make decisions in minutes. Our extensive database boasts a diverse range of cargo listings, encompassing the full spectrum of commodities:
- Dry bulk: grains, coal, ores, fertilizers, cement, bauxites – find loads for your Panamax, Capesize, or Supramax vessels.
- Break bulk: project cargo, steel products, machinery, timber – utilize your Handysize, Multipurpose vessels, General Cargo Ships or specialized fleet, including even livestock carriers
- Containerized cargo: General cargo, manufactured goods, consumer products, electronics, machinery, textiles – fill your container ships of all sizes with high-volume freight.
- Liquid (wet) bulk: oil, chemicals, refined petroleum products, LNG, LPG – secure charters for your VLCCs, Suezmaxes, Aframax tankers and more.
- Refrigerated cargo: perishables, pharmaceuticals – capitalize on demand for your Reefer vessels.
- Roll-on/Roll-off (Ro-Ro) Vessels: PCTC, RoPax - find wheeled self-moving cargoes such as vehicles, cars, trucks and more.
Advanced search & filtering
Gone are the days of wading through irrelevant listings. For precision matching, our intuitive search engine allows you to filter by:
Vessel type & size
Tailor your search to find compatible cargo for your specific tonnage and capabilities.
Route & destination
Match your available sailing routes with desired cargo movement.
Commodity type
Target specific cargo types based on your vessel's equipment and certifications.
Laycan dates
Optimize your schedule by finding cargo aligning with your discharge and loading windows.
Show your fleet on the map
Register your fleet: input detailed vessel specifications.
Set preferences: indicate preferred cargo types, routes, and rates. Receive matches: our system will present optimal cargo opportunities. Negotiate and book: secure fixtures directly through the platform. Perform and grow: complete voyages, build your reputation, and expand your market reach. Fleet operators and managers significantly increase profits by utilizing more vessels.
It takes no more than a minute to add your vessel with comprehensive details, or even less if you are using spreadsheet upload or API connection.
Add freight rates and sell online
As a shipowner, you understand the importance of maximizing the efficiency of your vessel operations. Other than finding the best matches for loads and cargoes, ensuring optimal utilization of your fleet, you can enhance freight rate offering with marketplace force. Add your rates in our RMS and let thousands of shippers find them and book online 24/7 - on SeaRates.com and hundreds of associated websites using our rates API. Literally it helps you close chartering deals and moreover - find long term contracts.
Learn more Web-integrations for your website
Improve your customer experience by enhancing your website and building your own mobile application for easy access and effective work. Such SeaRates tools as Logistics Explorer, Logistics Map, Vessel Tracker and more - can be white labeled on your website, creating new impressions to your clients and giving you a technological advantage. Let your clients calculate freight rates online on the selected criteria, apply for vessels in specific areas, track shipments and other digital features available 24/7.
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Freight index
Get access to real-time market insights, a competitive advantage based on the real data updated on weekly basis in SeaRates datalake, and it empowers you with relevant market data and freight rate indices. Gain full visibility in current trends and historical data, allowing you to negotiate the best possible rates for your voyages. Get deep granularity from Areas, Continents, Coasts and Sea Regions according to Baltic Exchange, to specific countries and even ports. This data gives you advantage to eliminate wasted voyages and find full loads for maximum profitability, access to global network and local expertise with a diverse pool of cargo listings from all corners of the world, and allows you to have faster deal closures.
Learn more Fleet management system
SeaRates is your maritime matchmaker for optimal Vessel Utilization. Comprehensive dynamic cargo database access a vast array of cargoes - dry & wet bulk, heavy-lift, specialized and more. Smart matching AI-powered algorithm considers vessel specifications (DWT, GT, draft, LOA), cargo compatibility, port restrictions, laycan windows, freight rates. Minimize ballast legs and maximize laden voyages with our intelligent routing suggestions. FIX real-time market intelligence allows you to stay informed with up-to-date BDI trends, worldscale rates for tankers, container freight indices. We are attentive to compliance, so making easy to ensure adherence to MARPOL regulations, SOLAS requirements, IMDG Code for dangerous goods.
SeaRates tools and API integrations
Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services tailored specifically for the maritime industry, making it easier than ever to connect with shippers and secure profitable contracts.
Other than that our dev team is working on special features like:
- Demurrage/Despatch Calculator
- Laytime Computation Tool
- Bunker Planning Assistant
- Weather Routing Integration
- Voyage Estimator, considering bunker prices, port costs, canal tolls, time charter equivalent (TCE) etc.
Moreover, you can integrate your existing freight rate calculation, vessel tracking and schedules via API.
Developer portal Ready to transform your fleet management and boost your bottom line?
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