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Vessel Hunter

For service providers

Get to the buyer before the inbox fills up.

Bunker traders, spare-parts suppliers, lubricant vendors, marine surveyors, ship management firms, and P&I clubs 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 procurement contact, and routes the alert straight into the workflow your sales team already runs.

The service provider window is narrow

A 90,000 DWT Aframax inbound to Rotterdam has a procurement 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 making decisions about bunker stem, spare parts, lubricant top up, surveyor attendance, and ship chandling. 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 engine make and model (so a spare parts supplier knows whether they actually stock the part), the historical port call pattern at this port (so a lubricant trader knows whether this ship typically tops up here), and the verified procurement contact (so the sales rep doesn’t lose a day to the switchboard).

Categories of service provider that run Vessel Hunter

  • Bunker traders: fleet watchlists by engine type and historical fuel grade, alert 72 hours out with the bunker purchasing contact on the card.
  • Spare parts and OEM suppliers: watch the engine and auxiliary equipment field across the operator fleets you cover. Trigger on dry dock window or casualty alert for emergency stock.
  • Lubricant vendors: engine spec drives the lubricant spec. Filter to the operators and tonnage classes you supply, route alerts to the territory rep.
  • 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 chandling and technical services: terminal level approaching ports inbox keyed to your service area.

How it ties into existing CRM

Alerts route to email, web push, Slack, or in app. The webhook layer lets you drop alerts directly into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, or a custom maritime CRM with field mapping you control. API access is included on every plan. See the API documentation. Every call is audit logged for compliance.

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.

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