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What Does a Vessel Agent Do? Monday, 10 August What Makes a Good Vessel Agent? People skills. About the author. Comments No comments made yet. Be the first to submit a comment. Ship agents and brokers come in many shapes and sizes. The broker is involved in many stages of a deal: presenting the business to potential clients, negotiating the main terms of a contract or sale, finalising the details of the contract and following the deal through to its conclusion.

Increasingly shipbrokers also provide their clients with a wide range of market intelligence and advice. Similarly, the ship broker should continue to proactively support shipping companies in identifying the immediate and long term needs of ship capabilities by working ever closer with the cargo owners.

Ship brokers as well as ship agents must continue to provide added value to assist the service providers in their resource optimization. Williams FICS, guidelines have been developed to establish minimum international standards for ship agents and ship brokers in and onwards. These minimum standards, refining and updating those originally issued by UNCTAD in , now also include ship brokers, and put special emphasis on the expected capabilities of their roles as intermediaries and enablers of maritime transport.

The aim is to ensure that the expectations put upon ship agents and ship brokers by their clients can be assured through the provision of high-quality service delivered by qualified staff.

Further, special emphasis is also put on the response and responsibility of ship agents and ship brokers to counteract maritime fraud.

Key to the success of the maritime operations of tomorrow is that the involved actors should share situational awareness of planned and conducted operations along the maritime supply route, as part of the global transportation chain. In a digital landscape, the ship agent and the ship broker have a natural role in assuring quality in the information that they can provide and thereby also the services and capabilities that are delivered.

Ship agents and ship brokers can therefore fulfil a core role in contributing reliable spatial-temporal data that will be of use for both the parties that are requiring services and capabilities and for those that provide such services and capabilities. For small or medium-sized ship agents and ship brokers who often find access to know-how or funding challenging, national or international business associations could provide assistance through scalability, access to technical expertise and funding sources and feedback regarding experience from other users.

Full-blown digitalization of the maritime sector means that maritime informatics opportunities arise for every party involved. This is both challenging and at the same time brings to the table new opportunities for traditional roles. There is no doubt that a ship operator wants to acquire better situational awareness based on information provided by the port in its fleet operations.

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