Our team of industry experts provides accurate and validated barge positions that enable better planning and completion of operations. We eliminate the manual effort associated with daily barge updates to free up the valuable time of your in-house talent and enable them to focus on core business activities.
Leverage highly-accurate and validated barge positions
Improve position reporting
Increase time spent on core business activities
What do we do?
Gather, store, and review barge updates received from barge and tow companies
Support controlled and efficient distribution of barge position reports
Produce and distribute barge position lists at scheduled times using SMART Reporting functionality
Deliver optimization services related to performance, contracts, and risk
Enable customers to use their own systems and our expertise to manage barge positions
Enable better position reporting by combining customer data with data available via OceanSMART software tools (SMART Position and SMART Reporting)
Provide customers with a clear view of barge current and future known positions
Provide barge metrics and KPIs
Support the maintenance and review of KPIs with increased insight to potential optimization
Our services are tailored to those with an interest in barge-based cargo for whom full control and visibility of the cargo’s movements is a key element linked to corresponding activities. Our ability to manage barge positions is exceptionally advantageous for charterers, shippers, and receivers.
Charterers and Traders
- Provides ease of access to a repository of validated barge movements
- Enables the freeing-up of key resources so they can focus on core business activities
Terminal Operators
- Supports schedule optimization based on accurate data
- Provides a single point of contact for multiple vendors
Shippers and Receivers
- Delivers automatic notification to any barge-related factors that may affect your cargo
- Provides single point of contact to multiple barge operators
