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Marine Logistics

Move cargo on schedule when the sea, the port, and the customer all change plans at once.

Marine logistics coordinators manage more variables per shipment than almost any other freight operation. Vessel ETAs shift with weather, port congestion changes terminal availability, and customers need updates they aren't getting. The coordination overhead compounds until it breaks someone.

The Problem

Marine logistics runs on phone calls, spreadsheets, and institutional knowledge that walks out the door.

When your best coordinator leaves, they take the vessel relationships, the port contacts, and the tribal knowledge that kept everything moving. What they leave behind is a spreadsheet nobody else understands.

01

Vessel Schedule Volatility

Vessel ETAs shift by hours or days based on weather, routing changes, and port congestion. Without a system that cascades those changes through the cargo plan, a single vessel delay creates a manual rescheduling sprint that touches every downstream stakeholder.

02

Documentation Gaps at Port

Cargo manifests, customs documentation, and hazmat declarations are created in silos and reconciled manually before port arrival. Errors surface at the terminal - too late to fix without delay and penalty.

03

Customer Visibility Requests

Cargo owners want to know where their shipment is. Coordinators spend hours on status calls that could be answered by a tracking system. The time spent on check-in calls is time not spent on actual coordination problems.

What TMI Builds

Six systems. One operating layer.

Built for marine logistics operations - vessel tracking, cargo documentation, port coordination, and customer visibility on one platform.

01

Vessel Schedule Tracking

Real-time vessel position and ETA integrated with the cargo schedule. When a vessel shifts more than a defined window, the system automatically flags all affected cargo and downstream bookings for review - no manual cascade required.

02

Cargo Documentation Control

Manifests, certificates, and customs filings built from cargo records and checked against port requirements before vessel arrival. Documentation errors caught before the terminal, not at it.

03

Port Call Coordination

Berth availability, agent contacts, port requirements, and terminal procedures stored by port and updated by actual experience. When a vessel calls a port for the first time, the team has a complete operational record, not a blank page.

04

Customer Cargo Visibility

Automated shipment status updates pushed to cargo owners at key milestones - vessel departure, estimated arrival, customs clearance, and final delivery. Reduces inbound status calls and creates a paper trail of every communication.

05

Freight Cost Capture

Port fees, stevedore charges, handling costs, and demurrage all tracked per shipment. The system builds the final invoice from actual costs - not estimates that drift from the original quote and create billing disputes.

06

Vendor and Agent Management

Port agents, stevedores, customs brokers, and truckers managed in one system with performance history and contact records. When a port agent underperforms, the record exists to have the conversation - and to make a better choice next time.

72%
Of vessel schedule changes require manual rescheduling of downstream cargo
$2,100
Average cost of a documentation error caught at the terminal rather than pre-arrival
3.1hrs
Daily coordinator time spent on customer status calls in unautomated operations
26%
Of port costs unrecoverable when captured manually from memory after vessel departure
Get Started

Build the operating system your marine logistics business needs.

Start with The Audit. One session to map your workflows, find the highest-leverage problems, and build your plan.