IMOS | Barging
Streamline short-sea and tow voyage management
Bring visibility and control to short-sea and tow voyage management with a centralized activity log, full contract capture, and integrated fuel consumption tracking.
Manage the intricacies of short-sea and tow voyages
The IMOS Platform’s Barging module equips operators with the centralized, timely insights they need to commercially perform short-sea voyage management and tow voyage management while maintaining complete continuity with the rest of the maritime workflow.
With IMOS Barging, you can:
Discern the minutiae of short-sea and tow voyages
Balance complexities across vessel, leg, and contract details
Establish fuel consumption visibility with a solution built to track every drop
Collaborate with your team in a centralized workspace
Manage short-sea and tow voyages from anywhere in the world
What can IMOS Barging help you achieve?
Manage barging with ease
Activity Log
Maintain knowledge of your short sea and tow activities
The Activity Log in IMOS Barging provides a real time, centralized audit of changing equipment and cargo status, enabling you to understand each leg of your voyage and stay up to date on tow progress.
Full Contract Capture
Accelerate your barging workflow
Full Contract Capture enables you to configure and streamline complex barge management workflows by capturing boat and barge details in equipment contracts, tracking itinerary leg activities in operations, and accounting for hire rate differentials in financials.
Fuel Consumption Tracking
Seamlessly track fuel consumption
Gain end-to-end visibility into fuel consumption with Fuel Consumption Tracking, which enables you to compare fuel consumption per completed transit leg by equipment and between equipment owners using the built-in Bunker Interpolator.
“Veson was the most attractive solution to CSL both in terms of functional breadth, and the company’s willingness to work with us to extend the solution to address our unique short sea shipping requirements; and we felt confident about expanding our relationship with Veson Nautical.”
Steve Palmer | Director and CIO
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Frequently asked questions on IMOS Barging
The IMOS Barging module is a specialized solution for managing short-sea and inland barge operations. It enables organizations to plan, execute, and track tow-based voyages involving multiple boats and barges, while maintaining full visibility into contracts, fuel consumption, and financial performance — all within a single, connected IMOS workflow.
IMOS Barging is used by barge operators, logistics teams, voyage operators, and commercial managers involved in short-sea and inland shipping. These users rely on the module to coordinate multi-equipment voyages, manage contracts, and monitor performance across complex barge and tow operations.
Barge operations involve high volumes of short voyages across multiple pieces of equipment — boats, barges, and tows — making them difficult to manage in general-purpose maritime systems. IMOS Barging solves this by providing a purpose-built workflow for multi-equipment voyage coordination, granular fuel consumption tracking, and contract and financial management across complex tow-based operations, all connected to the broader IMOS platform to eliminate duplicate data entry.
Barging involves many short, high-frequency voyages with multiple pieces of equipment — including boats, barges, and tows — rather than a single vessel. IMOS Barging is purpose-built to manage this complexity, enabling users to coordinate equipment movements, track voyage legs, and manage operations at a much more granular level.
IMOS Barging includes integrated fuel consumption tracking across boats and barges, allowing users to monitor fuel usage at the equipment and voyage level. Tools like the Bunker Interpolator provide visibility into consumption across voyage legs, enabling more accurate cost allocation and performance analysis.
IMOS Barging is fully connected to IMOS Chartering, Operations, Financials, and other modules, allowing contract, operational, and financial data to flow seamlessly across workflows. This eliminates duplicate data entry and ensures a consistent, single source of truth across all barging and commercial activities.