by Arto Viitanen, VP Product, Seaber.io

There are few options to digitise processes for cargo owners that rely on contracts of affreightment (COA) and spot voyages.

On one side of the equation, you have enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, possibly several of them, from where the maritime transportation needs are derived.

On the other side, you have the shipowner's voyage management systems (VMS), where seaborne transports are eventually created and managed.

For almost every company, everything in-between is up to an offline protocol dependent on a mass (better still: mess) of emails and improvised spreadsheets.

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