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> There is a pay off in optimising berth scheduling, whether its large enough to build a company around I'm not sure... It's a small but quite lucrative market
by Fiahil 10y ago
> There is a pay off in optimising berth scheduling, whether its large enough to build a company around I'm not sure...
It's a small but quite lucrative market. We're talking about less than 10 players for 10M+ contracts.
Do you know if demurrage charges are applied for vessels sitting offshore as storage?
- bigger_cheese 10y agoI'm not sure in that case. It may be contract specific. If the ship is waiting on harbour control to let it in to unload demurrage definitely applies. If it has not been formally handed over to harbour control it may not.
- notahacker 10y agoAs I understand it the demurrage charges apply when a third party doesn't receive the goods (or the use of the ship) by the expected time, so presumably isn't applied if the ship is intended to hold the goods offshore over a particular period. There's a big market in scheduling and monitoring systems for commercial aviation but the economics are very different (delays equal very expensive fuel burn and have safety and environmental implications, schedules are tight and turnaround and connection times measured in minutes, time slots at certain airports are multimillion dollar tradeable assets) as is the level of regulation.