Demurrage is not an operational inconvenience, it is a systemic failure of data. The industry loses up to $15 billion a year to a problem that lives in inboxes and spreadsheets.
Demurrage is the penalty a charterer pays when loading or discharging a vessel runs past the agreed laytime, and the fastest way to reduce demurrage charges is to fix the data problem underneath them: fragmented, delayed, manually reconciled port and vessel information. The industry pays roughly $15 billion a year for that failure.
Let me say something that LNG traders, shipping desks, and commodity operations teams already know but rarely say out loud:
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Anish has spent 12+ years inside commodity trading floors delivering ETRM and trading systems, from front-office deal capture to the post-go-live months where implementations are won or lost. He writes The Trading Narrative for the practitioners who run those desks: traders, delivery leads, and the professionals in between.
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