Responsibilities
- Assist chartering in obtaining the port restrictions and costs; screen Vessels with the Terminals/Ports.
- Guide Chartering and Trading on the tanks cleaning procedures and potential contamination risks.
- Screen the Vessels in accordance with our Client's vetting criteria.
- Issue the voyage instructions to the Vessels.
- Elaborate the stowage plans, including multi-grades, to accommodate trading arrangements and
- propose most efficient solutions.
- Optimize the cargo stowage plans and bunkers calculations.
- Optimize Vessels' routing depending on the speed/consumption curves, weather, arrival deadlines etc.
- Arrange STS transfers.
- Arrange bunkering of the time-chartered fleet.
- Arrange and negotiate various shipping related contracts (agency, towage, mooring, STS etc.).
- Provide initial legal support to trading for shipping related matters.
- Negotiate LOI wordings, participate in elaboration of the c/p clauses.
- Update IMOS, maintain accountability for the P&L; expect to participate in system development and interface with ETRM.
- Arrange periodical system reconciliations.
- Provide feedback on the estimates vs actual voyage costs, optimisation proposals.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years related shipping experience dealing with dry commodities (bulk coal, clinker, iron ore, aluminium sows and ingots, concentrates etc) and DPP / CPP.
- An entrepreneurial minded, hardworking and structured team player.
- Sailing experience as navigating officer would be an asset but not mandatory (must be combined with a shore experience in a trading or shipping company).
- Some legal background or substantial exposure to claims under the voyage-/time-charter parties.
- Experience with the IMOS shipping system is an advantage but not mandatory.
- Experience in dry bulk is required, candidate should be prepared to handle tanker operations too depending on the desk workload, hence having previous experience with wet shipments is a plus (including working out onboard blending and ITT plans etc) but not mandatory.
- Candidate should be prepared to handle VLCC / Suezmax / Aframax / LR / MR sized VL's
- Familiarity with standard tankers & dry voyage-/time-charter parties forms, FFAs and basic freight and bunker risk management technics.
- Fluent in English, both oral and written. Mandarin and/or Cantonese would be an asset.
- IT literate