TECHNOLOGY startup Fixturegram launched a livestreaming solution, the first-of-its-kind in the industry, aimed at providing greater efficiency and accessibility for the entire bulk-shipping industry.
The patent-pending solution, led by shipping professionals, is able to provide charterers, shipping agents and shop owners with game-changing features that allows greater efficiency to minimise redundancy and data error.
- Charterers: can gain instant access to information, access vessel timelog in spreadsheet-ready format and collaborate easier with teams across various locations.
- Shipping agents: are able to provide their clients with instant access to information, automate timesheets and reports, and work remotely from anywhere.
- Ship owners/charterers: provide clients with instant access to information, collaborate easier across multiple office locations, and automate direct data feed into existing Voyage Management Systems, or any in-house software.
Being a labour-intensive operation, the shipping industry puts the burden on shipping professionals who are encumbered with manual data tracking across various ununiformed mediums of communication.
Due to this, data accuracy is affected and the efficiency gets reduced, which can lead to losing valuable time and resources.
“Fixturegram solves this age-old industry problem through innovative use of technology by automating port-call tasks, creating real-time analytics and improving data organisation and efficiency, all via a single seamless solution,” explained its founder and CEO Eric Lim.
He further elaborates that the launch of Fixturegram comes at a time when shipping professionals are struggling to cope with work-from-home directives and lockdown measures amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We believe Fixturegram, with its fully integrated on-and-off site solution will reimagine how in-port activity information is effectively relayed, especially during the current pandemic.
“Our digital solution offers a virtual work environment for the shipping community to collaborate and share real-time shipping information and documents, eradicating the need for on-site, manual data entry,” Lim said.
As a proven case study, local industry leader Kudrat Maritime utilised Fixturegram’s solution and experienced improvements in operational efficiency in areas of data automation and time efficiency.
“The ability to provide real-time shipping information to our customers provides a significant advantage in the ever-competitive shipping agency market.
“The improvements and benefits we see are then passed on to our customers as value-add, enabling our customers to analyse performances of their shipments more accurately, and support better decision making on future shipments,” stated Kudrat executive director Khalzani Saffian. – Nov 13, 2021
