IMOS | Chartering
Make smarter chartering decisions, faster than ever
Discover what’s possible with IMOS Chartering
IMOS’s Chartering module delivers the practical tools and insights today’s chartering professionals need to be their best. Here’s some of what you can do with IMOS Chartering:
- Manage complex voyage estimates and freight calculations
- Capture different contract types and complex pricing structures
- Evaluate multiple scenarios side-by-side
- Leverage market data to align TCE to market conditions
- Incorporate decarbonization into voyage planning decisions
- Collaborate with colleagues
- Centrally manage, share, and track performance
- Access the insights and tools you need from anywhere
What can IMOS Chartering help you achieve?
“With Chartering, we have all our vessel and cargo information right in front of us. We know exactly where we stand and can instantly test various scenarios. Decisions that would have taken up to an hour can be made in minutes.”
Jens Axmann | Head of Operations
Capitalize on every voyage chartering opportunity
Voyage Planning
Understand the impact of every decision
Voyage Planning in IMOS Chartering enables users to make better decisions by comparing voyage estimates and vessel scenarios, seeing the cascading effects of every decision, collaborating with teammates, and visualizing the optimal voyages and routes throughout the voyage chartering process.
Scheduling
Optimize your schedule and save time
Scheduling combines all of your open vessel positions and cargo opportunities in a single, collaborative workspace that allows your chartering team to optimize fleet utilization, maximize profit, and save valuable time.
Make more profitable decisions
Manage every detail of every contract
Contract Management enables users to manage every detail across their freight and vessel contracts—from single-origin cargoes and trip time charters to unique agreement terms—then share those details across the commercial workflow for full continuity.
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Frequently asked questions on IMOS Chartering
The IMOS Chartering module is a comprehensive pre-fixture workflow management solution that enables chartering teams to create and analyze voyage estimates, compare scenarios, manage freight and vessel contracts, optimize fleet scheduling, and make faster, more profitable commercial decisions — all from a single, connected workspace within IMOS.
The IMOS Chartering module is used by chartering professionals across dry bulk, tanker, LNG/LPG, and chemical shipping segments — including freight traders, charterers, schedulers, and commercial managers. These users rely on IMOS Chartering to analyze opportunities, model voyage scenarios, manage contracts, and maximize fleet profitability across every stage of the pre-fixture process.
IMOS Chartering enables users to build detailed voyage estimates either from scratch or from pre-existing templates, evaluate scenarios side-by-side, and understand the cascading financial impact of every decision, including freight rates, bunker costs, and port delays, before committing to a fixture.
The Scheduling workspace in IMOS Chartering is a collaborative, drag-and-drop tool that combines all open vessel positions and cargo opportunities in one view, enabling cargo and tonnage matching across the full fleet. Multiple chartering desk members can work simultaneously, evaluating estimates and optimizing fleet utilization, with the schedule automatically adjusting to real-world changes like vessel ETA updates.
IMOS Chartering supports a wide range of maritime contract types, including spot voyages, contracts of affreightment (COAs), voyage fixtures, time charter out arrangements, cargo relets, and washout contracts. This flexibility enables chartering teams to capture complex pricing structures and unique agreement terms across every major shipping segment.
IMOS Chartering enables teams to incorporate emissions costs and regulatory requirements directly into voyage estimates and planning decisions. By integrating FuelEU and EU ETS considerations at the pre-fixture stage, chartering professionals can evaluate commercial impacts before committing to a contract, supporting both profitability and compliance.
IMOS Chartering gives chartering teams the pre-fixture intelligence they need to act faster and more profitably — from automated TCE calculations and carbon-adjusted voyage estimation to laycan management and cargo screening.
IMOS Chartering is the starting point of Veson’s fixture-to-finance workflow — contracts flow directly into IMOS Operations, Financials, and Trading & Risk without duplicate data entry, creating a single source of truth across the full commercial lifecycle.
Voyage and cargo fixtures natively connect with Shipfix, enabling teams to collaborate in real time around active voyages and cargoes. Positions are also organized within Shipfix market screens, giving teams clear visibility into opportunities as they develop.