For service providers
Get to the buyer before the inbox fills up.
Marine surveyors, P&I clubs, ship management firms, and technical and repair service providers all share the same problem: every vessel that approaches their service area is a conversation worth having, and the first call wins. Vessel Hunter surfaces inbound demand live, pairs each ship with the verified operator contact, and routes the alert straight into the workflow your sales team already runs. If you supply physical goods to the ship instead, bunkers, lubricants, spares, or provisions, see suppliers.
The service provider window is narrow
A 90,000 DWT Aframax inbound to Rotterdam has a decision window that opens roughly 72 hours before berth and closes roughly 12 hours after departure. Inside that window the technical superintendent or port captain is appointing surveyor attendance, scoping repair and afloat technical support, lining up P&I correspondence, and confirming management cover. Get to them inside the window and you have a quote in. Miss it and you have a follow up email no one reads.
The legacy way to play this is to stitch together AIS feeds, cross reference Equasis or Lloyd’s for the manager, dig through LinkedIn for a name, and hope the email address still works. The Vessel Hunter way is one alert: vessel name, ETA, the procurement contact, the verified mobile, and the dossier one click away.
What a service provider workflow looks like
Define your service area as a watchlist, a port, a terminal, a zone, or a custom geofence, and let the system fire when any vessel that matches your fleet rules enters it. Fleet rules can be as simple as “any tanker above 50,000 DWT inbound to Rotterdam or Antwerp”, or as specific as “every container ship managed by these eight operators, calling these four terminals”.
The alert lands with three pieces of information your competitor doesn’t have: the class and survey schedule (so a surveyor knows the attendance window), the detention and casualty record (so a P&I correspondent or technical manager can scope the risk), and the verified operator contact (so the sales rep doesn’t lose a day to the switchboard).
Be the surveyor or technical contact already on the card when the window opens.
Categories of service provider that run Vessel Hunter
- Marine surveyors: watch condition survey and pre purchase inspection trigger events: ownership change, port state detention, casualty, and class recommendation.
- P&I clubs and insurers: risk side watchlists on detention history, casualty record, sanctions screening, and beneficial ownership changes.
- Ship management firms: watch the operator fleets you target for management tenders, ownership changes, and technical superintendent moves.
- Technical and repair services: trigger on dry dock window, class recommendation, or casualty alert to reach the superintendent while the scope is still open.
- Classification and inspection support: a terminal level approaching ports inbox keyed to your service area, paired with the technical contact who appoints the work.
Supplying physical goods to the ship instead, bunkers, lubricants, spares, provisions, or chandlery? That workflow lives on the suppliers page.
What it costs to win one more deal a month
Service providers typically run Vessel Hunter against the operator list they currently sell to, expand it by a factor of two to four from the curated company graph, and convert one extra deal per territory per month into well above break even at the standard $2,500/user/month rate. See pricing for fleet and multi seat terms.
Also read suppliers, shipyards, and port agents, or browse all platform features.