Browse job descriptions commonly used by Bulk Carriers companies.
Calculate laytime and demurrage on every voyage, because on a dry bulk fixture the difference between a good result and a loss is often decided by whether time was counted correctly.
Own everything that happens to a fixture after the recap: freight collection, laytime, demurrage, cargo claims and the cash that determines whether the voyage estimate was ever real.
Support the operations desk with port call coordination, agent follow-up and voyage record keeping, learning how a dry bulk voyage is actually executed.
Own operational delivery and cost across the whole fleet: voyage execution, port cost, cargo risk and the operations organisation that protects the earnings the commercial desk fixes.
Run the bunker desk: stem planning, supplier panel, quantity and quality control and the cost discipline on the single largest voyage expense.
Own the commercial earnings of the whole fleet: employment strategy, trading position, counterparty base and the TCE the business is measured on.
Turn contested time into collected cash, negotiating the demurrage and deadfreight positions that charterers routinely resist and the company routinely under-recovers.
Fix the harder cargoes and the longer periods, cover the desk's most valuable tonnage and set the negotiation and estimation standard for the team.
Close every voyage at its true cost and true TCE, because the estimate is a forecast and the voyage account is the only number that tells the company whether it was right.
Own the cargo itself: whether the holds are fit, whether the cargo is safe to carry, and whether what is loaded matches what the bill of lading says.
Own voyage execution and voyage cost across a fleet segment: the difference between the estimate the chartering desk sold and the result the company actually books.
Support the technical desk with purchase requisitions, spares tracking, certificate records and defect logs so superintendents spend their time on vessels rather than paperwork.
Own the company's freight market position across physical and paper, turning a house view on the dry bulk cycle into managed, limited and reportable risk.
Own how the dry bulk operator runs its ships: operations, technical, marine and crewing, and be accountable to the board for fleet availability, safety and operating cost.
Take and manage freight market positions, relet tonnage and trade paper against the physical book, turning a market view into realised margin rather than just an opinion.
Collect the money the fixture promised: freight, demurrage, deadfreight and hire, and settle what is owed, in a business where cash is often the last thing to arrive.
Set and own the commercial strategy of the dry bulk operator: employment, trading, fleet composition and the earnings the board is promised.
Run the post-fixture desk: claim throughput, recovery performance, time bar discipline and the cash that closes out every voyage.
Keep the desk's data and documentation clean: positions, cargo orders, recaps and charter party paperwork, so chartering staff spend their time negotiating rather than filing.
Buy the fuel that consumes most of a voyage budget, at the right port and price, and make sure the quantity delivered is the quantity paid for.
Execute the voyage the chartering desk fixed: get the vessel to the load port on laycan, loaded to the right quantity, and discharged without the delays and disputes that erode the estimate.
Hold vessels to their speed and consumption warranties and drive the fuel efficiency measures that show up directly in voyage results and emissions ratings.
Run a chartering desk covering a vessel segment or region, allocating tonnage, approving estimates and holding the team to commercial discipline.
Own fuel cost, fuel price risk and voyage cost transparency together, since between them they explain most of the gap between a voyage estimate and a voyage result.
Handle the voyages and port calls where money is lost fastest: congestion, cargo disputes, berth denial and off-spec cargo, and set the standard for the operations desk.
Support the chartering desk with market data, position lists and voyage estimate preparation while learning how a dry bulk fixture is built and what makes it profitable.
Provide the shore-side marine support that keeps bulk carriers compliant and trading: certificates, inspections, vetting readiness and the nautical questions operations cannot answer.
Find and fix the cargoes that keep the fleet employed, building voyage estimates that show what a fixture is actually worth before committing the vessel.
Own the earnings of a fleet segment: how the vessels are employed, at what rate, on what terms, and what they return against the market index.
Run the operations desk for a group of vessels: voyage execution, agent performance, port cost and the round-the-clock cover a fleet at sea requires.
