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The Trade, Explained

What a Shipbroker Actually Does

A shipbroker sits between two parties who don't yet trust each other: a charterer with cargo and nowhere to put it, and an owner with a vessel and no cargo to fill it. Neither side has full visibility into the other's market. The broker's job is to close that gap — sourcing tonnage, sourcing cargo, and negotiating a charter party both sides can live with.

It's an old trade, running on relationships built over years and confirmed by reputation rather than credentials. A broker's value isn't a database — it's judgment: knowing which owner will actually perform on a tight laycan, which charterer pays on time, and what a rate really means once bunkers, port costs, and weather risk are priced in.

Dry bulk in particular moves the raw materials the rest of the economy depends on — grain, ores, minerals, fertilizer — on vessels that don't run fixed schedules. Every fixture is negotiated fresh, against a freight market that can move meaningfully in a single day. That's the environment ZoomSend operates in.

Why ZoomSend

Built Around Three Things

01

Discretion

Cargo and counterparty details move on a need-to-know basis — before, during, and after the fixture closes.

02

Market Read

Rates are tracked against Baltic indices and regional freight movement, not quoted from memory.

03

Direct Line

You speak to the person executing your fixture — no account managers, no ticket queue.

How a Fixture Comes Together

Anatomy of a Fixture

Always Moving

Four Corridors, One Desk

Mediterranean Black Sea Red Sea W.C. India

Core Operational Focus & Target Tonnage

Handysize (10k-35k DWT)
Supramax (50k-60k DWT)
Ultramax (60k-65k DWT)
Med / Black Sea / WCI Routes
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