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SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS for physical barrel accounting and reporting, the software is also seeing interest from banks and trading houses who for the first time might be ventur- ing beyond paper trades into wet barrel transactions. Some customers already use Navarik to move sulfur and petcoke.

And, while there are differences in how a dry commodity is handled, the overar- ching principal of how to organize and report that data does not.

According to Dobie, client interface remains a keystone of Navarik’s focus. “We want industry to drive the product – not us. We respond to customer requirements, going out into the field, staying in tune with industry and using that knowledge to improve the soft- ware.” Dobie continues, “That said, and although our relationships with compa- nies like Triple Point require us to accommodate the dry sectors, our focus does remain on the petroleum side of things.” Cargo inspectors are still crunching numbers on grimy tankers at 0230 AM. Today, they upload numbers directly from their laptops in the field.

What happens next at Navarik is any- one’s guess. For sure, future enhance- ments will be customer driven, stan- dardized and streamlined business solu- tions for energy transportation profes- sionals. For petroleum commodity players, this translates into a job well done. At Navarik, they call it “data delivered.” — MarPro