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SOFTWARE

On the Waterfront

Voyager has been engineered to be ? exible enough, in- corporating complicated (and obscure) terms, so that cus- tomization isn’t typically necessary. Customers report that the system is both user-friendly and can be mastered in a very short period of time, with minimal training. John

Kathleen Haugen,

Kennelly, Manager of Chartering and Operations at Enjet,

Managing Director, told MarineNews, “The system was originally meant for

Haugen Consulting chemical tankers and other blue water commerce, but it adapts well for our purposes. Data entry is simple and the tracking capacity saves us a lot of time.”

For Enjet, the software has meant faster invoicing and instantaneously logging of data into the accounting sys- tem. For Kennelly, it also means knowing exactly who owes him money and how much at any one time in the trading day – a huge advantage when negotiating that next deal.

That’s because Insight, the

Haugen analytics package, allows the user to create arbi- trary reports on any informa- tion tracked by Voyager, in- cluding demurrage time and cost, cargo performance, his- torical and outstanding claim summaries, timebar manage- ment, and other metrics.

The streamlined process also means that fewer per- sonnel are needed to man- age the workload. That said, it isn’t always possible to support extremely unusual contract anomalies. In those case, Kennelly takes advan- tage of the manual overrides built into the system that make handling these situa- tions possible without cus- tomization.

The Inland Markets &

Demurrage

In many ways, tanker de- murrage and barge demur- rage are the same. Barge de- murrage in the U.S. market can be complex when mul- tiple barges form a tow, with

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