AI agents and software for maritime and shipping companies
Port agencies, ship managers, charterers and freight forwarders run on email threads, PDFs and spreadsheets. The margin is in the documents nobody has time to read — laytime, demurrage, charter party clauses, crew certificates. Agents that read them for you pay for themselves in one voyage.
Where the money leaks
Our document-to-structured-data pipeline was built for hospital contracts and claims; charter parties and statements of fact are the same problem in a different industry.
- Port-call coordination across agents, terminals and owners is manual and time-critical
- Laytime and demurrage calculations start from statements of fact buried in PDFs
- Charter party clauses differ per fixture; disputes come from what was missed
- Crew documents and certificates expire on schedules nobody tracks centrally
- Bunker, port and agency invoices arrive in every format and get reconciled late
Six agents, each with a human gate and an audit trail.
Port-call coordinator
Reads arrival notices, pro-forma DAs and terminal updates; keeps every party on one timeline and escalates delays.
Laytime & demurrage agent
Extracts statement-of-fact events, applies the charter's laytime terms and drafts the demurrage claim with a rationale trail.
Charter party extraction
Turns each fixture into structured clauses — laycan, laytime, demurrage rate, notices — searchable and comparable.
Crew compliance agent
Tracks STCW certificates, medicals and visas per seafarer; flags expiries before crew change, not after.
Invoice reconciliation
Matches bunker, port and agency invoices to voyage budgets and DAs; routes exceptions to a human.
Enquiry-to-quote agent
Answers cargo and chartering enquiries on email or WhatsApp with a first quote drafted from your rate logic.
Capabilities behind these agents
View all →Data Foundation
Systems that finally agree with each other.
Agentic AI Implementation
Agents that do the work, with a human gate on every action.
AI Governance & Security
Every decision with a rationale you can audit.
Digital Transformation
Modernise the revenue function, not just the software.
AI-Powered Software Delivery
Every spec ships with tests. AI builds, a human gates every release.
Vertical AI Solutions
Accelerators for healthcare revenue and B2B sales.
Questions maritime and shipping teams ask
AI agents for maritime · shipping software development India · laytime and demurrage automation · port agency software · charter party clause extraction · ship management software · maritime document automation · freight forwarding AI
Do you have maritime domain experience?
We have built document-heavy revenue systems in healthcare and sales; for maritime we pair that engineering with your operators, who know the trade. The first engagement is always one workflow with a measurable outcome.
Which systems can the agents connect to?
Email (Outlook, Gmail), shared drives, ERP and accounting exports, and any system with an API or a CSV export. We start read-only.
How is accuracy controlled on demurrage claims?
Every extracted event carries its source page and a confidence score; the claim is drafted, never sent, until an operator approves it.
Building for maritime and shipping? Send the workflow, we'll name the agent.
A short brief to enquiry@xdqlabs.com gets a scope and a fixed price within two working days — or a straight answer that it isn't a fit.