MALAYSIA · PHILIPPINES · VENEZUELA
IMPSA hydropower programme
- Projects
- Bakun · CBK · Tocoma · Aña Cuá
- Marine ops
- Semi-submersible
- Delivery
- Bakun · Tocoma executed in full
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Marine Chartering
Vessel procurement run as a controlled, auditable process — market sounding to fixture, and through every post-fixture claim — on the client's behalf, with every owner compared on the same documented criteria.
01 — What is actually being decided
A fixture is a risk position, not a price.
The freight number is the last thing settled and the least of what matters. These are the questions answered before a vessel is nominated — and each one is priced into the outcome whether it was asked or not.
- 01Which vessel classes can physically take the cargo — and which merely claim to?
- 02Is this owner's tonnage available in the window, or is the offer speculative?
- 03Does the freight level reflect the market, or the broker's position in it?
- 04Where does the charter party place liability for delay, damage and deviation?
- 05Are the load and discharge ports contractually compatible with the vessel's terms?
- 06What laytime regime is being accepted, and what does an hour of it cost?
- 07Which sanctions, flag and class exposures follow the owner rather than the cargo?
- 08If this fixture fails, what is the replacement market and how long does it take?
02 — Process
Six stages, one auditable trail.
Competition is created deliberately and documented throughout, so every recommendation can be defended after the fact — to a board, an auditor or a tribunal.
- 01
Market sounding
Reading the real position of tonnage against the project window, before any requirement is disclosed to the market.
- 02
Owner pre-qualification
Identifying and screening owners and operators on fleet suitability, track record, flag, class and commercial standing.
- 03
RFQ & tender management
Scope defined in technical terms, issued to a qualified field, with clarification handled on one controlled record.
- 04
Normalisation & benchmarking
Offers reduced to comparable terms and benchmarked against the market — technical suitability ahead of apparent price.
- 05
Negotiation & fixture
Charter-party strategy, clause negotiation and fixture support, with the liability position explicit at signature.
- 06
Post-fixture
NORs, statements of facts, laytime and demurrage tracked as they accrue — not reconstructed once a claim lands.
03 — Deliverables
What the client receives.
- Market sounding report with tonnage position
- Owner pre-qualification and screening file
- RFQ package and scope of carriage
- Normalised bid comparison
- Freight benchmark against market
- Charter-party strategy and clause positions
- Negotiation record and recommendation
- Fixture and post-fixture support
- Laytime and demurrage calculations
- Claims analysis and contractual basis
04 — Coverage
Tonnage and contract forms.
Vessel classes routinely sourced and evaluated:
Heavy-liftMultipurpose (MPP)Bulk carriers
Semi-submersibleDeck carriersRo-Ro
TankersOSV / PSV / AHTSDP1 / DP2
AccommodationBarges
Contract forms handled:
Voyage charterTime charterCOA
GENCON & BIMCO formsHeavy-lift contracts
Offshore contractsBooking notes
05 — On the record
Chartering, applied.
FINLAND → CHILE · URUGUAY
Pulp & paper programme
- Mills
- Arauco · UPM Paso de los Toros · first UPM mill
- Scope
- Project chartering
- Shipments
- 10
ARGENTINA — ENERGY PROGRAMMES
Offshore oil & gas vessel chartering
- Programmes
- Total Austral · Magallanes · NK Ph. I
- Scope
- Pipe · offshore chartering
- Tonnage
- 2,000,000+ t
06 — Adjacent
Rarely engaged alone.
02
Cargo Engineering & Heavy Lift
Vessel suitability is settled by the lift and stow concept, not the other way round.
05Contract & Liability
The charter party is where the fixture's risk position is actually written.
06Port, Customs & Regulatory
Load and discharge terms are only as good as the ports that must honour them.