Private charter party intelligence.

CharterWise reads, audits and compares charter parties on the customer’s own hardware. The contract never leaves it.

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There is no cloud.

Every charter party carries hire, cargo, counterparties and negotiated terms. Shipping companies refuse to upload that to other people’s computers, and they are right to. Contract software answers with promises about its cloud. CharterWise’s answer is not to have one.

The model that reads the contract, the OCR that deciphers the scan, and the database that stores the results all run on the customer’s machines.

What it does.

ReadingPDFs, scans and photographs, identified form by form.OpenClose

Give it a charter party as a PDF, a scan, or a photograph. CharterWise deciphers it page by page.

It identifies the form on its own: ASBATANKVOY, GENCON and the other standard families.

Page 3 of 34 · scanned

reads as

Weather working days, Sundays and holidays excepted.

Laytime · Clause 6 · from a scan, on this machine

Pages arrive as pixels and leave as clauses, without leaving the room.
The auditRisk score, tiered deviations, and riders read as riders.OpenClose

Every document is checked against the clause schedule for its form: 193 clause definitions across 11 standard forms.

The result is a risk score, deviations tiered Critical, Warning and Info, and plain-English explanations written by hand, clause by clause.

Rider clauses are read as riders and paired to the printed clause they override, because the money usually lives in the riders.

Part II · Printed terms

Clause 7. Demurrage

Demurrage at the loading and discharging ports shall be payable by the Charterers at the rate of eighteen thousand United States dollars twenty-five thousand United States dollars per running day, or pro rata for any part of a day, until loading or discharge is completed. Demurrage shall fall due day by day and shall be payable on receipt of invoice within five banking days.

Rider · Clause 29

Notwithstanding the printed Clause 7, demurrage shall be assessed at half rate for the first forty-eight hours of delay arising from port congestion at the discharge port.

The material CharterWise reads: printed terms, struck amendments, and the riders that override them.
ComparisonTwo documents, clause by clause.OpenClose

Set two documents side by side and see, clause by clause, what is identical, what has drifted, and what is missing.

GENCON 1994 · m/v Ardent Pioneer

Clause 5. Loading and discharging at one safe berth, one safe port…

Clause 6. Laytime: 96 running hours, weather permitting…

Clause 7. Demurrage at USD 18,000 per running day.

GENCON 1994 · m/v Iron Harvest

Clause 5. Loading and discharging at one safe berth, one safe port…

Clause 6. Laytime: 96 running hours, weather permitting…

Clause 7. Demurrage at USD 25,000 per running day.

One clause has drifted. Across ten days of detention, that drift is worth USD 70,000.
Two fixtures on the same form: the difference found, and what the difference costs.
Voyage workingsThe voyage behind the contract, recalculated as you edit.OpenClose

A working sheet for the voyage behind the contract: freight, bunkers, port costs and time, recalculated as you edit. Workings for judgement, not advice.

Voyage workings · Capesize · iron ore

Freight 10.50 $/MT × 170,000 MTUSD 1,785,000
Bunkers− USD 306,000
Port costs− USD 115,000
Commissions, 3.75%− USD 66,938
Voyage result over 24 daysUSD 54,044 per day
The voyage behind the contract. Change the blue figure and every line below it follows.

In service today, and honestly marked.

FormStanding
ASBATANKVOYIn service, proven on real fixtures
GENCONIn service, proven on real fixtures
BPVOYClause schedule complete
NYPE, Shelltime, BaltimeBuilding
Bills of lading, LOIsClause schedules in place

This list is published as it stands. Nothing here is sold as finished when it is not.

Where it stands.

CharterWise is in development and working: real charter parties in, real audits out, on a single machine. It is early, and this site does not pretend otherwise.

CharterWise is built by Emil Mekhtiev.

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