Voyage Ops

Voyage Ops is where a fixture becomes a voyage. It starts life as an estimate, is promoted to an actual voyage once the fixture is firm, and carries its route, costs and documents through to completion.

The screen

One instrument at the top, Fleet voyages, with the fleet revenue and a variance chip. Its status bar is clickable: Estimated (pre-fixture), In progress and Completed. Below it, an On budget bar reads how many voyages are at or ahead of their estimate baseline.

Filter by search (voyage number, vessel, route or port), by vessel and by status. Each voyage is a card; expand it for six tabs: Overview, Route, Snapshots, Costs, Documents, Operational.

Starting a voyage

• New Voyage — the form.
• Draft from Recap — paste the fixture recap text, or upload it as a PDF or text file, and NethuneX drafts the voyage from it. You review before anything is saved. It will tell you plainly if it could not read a file: paste the text instead.

From estimate to actual

An Estimated voyage shows a Promote to actual button. If its number starts with EST-, you are asked whether to renumber it to a permanent V- number. Do that once the fixture is firm; it gives the voyage its commercial identity.

Snapshots

The Snapshots tab records the voyage's position against its estimate over time. Results are graded Green (on or ahead of estimate) and Amber (up to 10 % behind), and worse beyond that. If a voyage's baseline had to be reconstructed rather than carried from a real estimate, the tab says so and the variance is marked indicative — read it as a guide, not a fact.

Route and costs

The Route tab draws the passage on the lane network and prices canal tolls from the published Suez and Panama tariffs for this ship. Costs bridges the estimate to the actuals from finance.

What it will and won't do

• Delete asks you to confirm the voyage number. Completed voyages are kept for the record.
• The route cannot cross land: every leg is a real shipping lane. If a canal limit rules a ship out, the route is marked not sailable rather than quietly drawn through it.