Laytimetech
Laytime, demurrage and despatch calculator.
Drag and drop your papers and get your laytime statement.
No account, no card.
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Their figure arrives, and it is nowhere near yours. Now you have to work out which of you is right — out of the same charter party, the same notice of readiness and the same statement of facts they used. That is an afternoon with a spreadsheet. Or it is one upload.
And it reads your sale contract alongside the charter party — CIF and FOB terms, on GAFTA and FOSFA forms or the parties’ own — which no other laytime tool does, so the terms on both sides of you are settled together, not one at a time.
No card to start. Every hour traces back to the clause that made it count — which is what you need when somebody asks.
Nobody's job is "calculating laytime". The job starts with a pile of paper somebody sent you and ends with a claim somebody has to agree to, and holding all of it together in between is the part nobody sees. Laytimetech does the whole of it — reads the papers, settles the voyage, and keeps the record you will want in front of you when the other side comes back six months later and disagrees.
Drag them in as they came to you — PDF, Word, Excel, a scan, or a photo taken on somebody's phone at the berth — and the app reads them for you. The terms and the timeline come back filled in, each with the words it came from. Drop the main body, the recap and the addenda in together and they fall into rank on their own, with whatever the addendum changed said out loud instead of buried. Reading comes with Professional and Team.
Laytime, demurrage, despatch and detention — at every port, against every counterparty. Weather and SHEX, the weekend that port actually keeps, the holidays, reversible laytime, and the exceptions your charter really states rather than the ones a template assumes. Every hour tells you which clause made it count.
Every vessel and every voyage in one place: the papers behind it, the statement you sent, and where the claim got to — open, sent, settled — with what you asked for sitting beside what you agreed in the end. Next year's argument becomes a matter of looking it up.
Whatever you were sent, send it in. You did not choose the form. Somebody fixed on a GENCON from 1994, the recap came as an email at midnight, the addendum is a photograph taken on a phone, and the statement of facts was signed by hand at the berth. None of that matters here.
Then it reads. Every letter, every number, every figure struck through in pen and written again above it. Your fixture comes back filled in — and beside each term, the exact wording it was taken from, so you check one sentence instead of retyping a contract. Then it does your calculation.
The charter party open on one side, the statement of facts on the other, a calculator and a spreadsheet, and a growing suspicion that you have counted Sunday twice. Send the papers in instead. You get a finished statement for every counterparty — and the net across the chain, which is the number no single statement has ever shown you.
When the terms on your two sides are not back-to-back, somebody pays for the difference. Usually you, and usually without noticing until it is too late to say anything. It is put in front of you.
A finished statement against the owner, the shipper and the receiver — and from the owner's side as well, so you see the claim coming before it arrives. Per-port terms, weather and SHEX, the local weekend and the holidays, reversible laytime: all of it handled.
Every hour can be traced, and the arithmetic run again to the same answer. Export to PDF, Word or Excel with nothing of ours anywhere on it, so it goes out under your letterhead and looks like your work. It is your work.
Type a voyage in and settle it, free, for ever, without an account — the real engine, the real figures, and the whole time-counted table with the clause behind every line. What a subscription buys is having the papers read for you, so the hour you would have spent typing a statement of facts is an hour you get back.
The calculator, for ever. No account, no card, no expiry.
For a desk doing about a voyage a day. Drop in the papers, check what was read, calculate.
For brokers, claims consultants and desks working through an archive.
For a whole desk, or a group of them, with its own paper.
What counts as a document. One document read once. A file you have already read stays in the app and is never sent again, and a read that fails never counts. Your count resets on the first of each month, and Settings shows exactly where you stand at any time.
The calculator is free for ever and needs no account — you type the facts in yourself. Signing in, also free, saves your statements so you can reopen them. Having the documents read for you is what a subscription buys. Nothing is ever deleted when a plan ends: you keep your account, everything you saved, and the calculator.
Fair use on Team. Unlimited means unlimited for any real desk. There is a safeguard at 3,000 documents a month — a hundred every single day — which exists only to stop a runaway script, and we will lift it for you if you ever meet it.
Works in your browser on desktop and mobile — and as a direct-download app for Mac and Windows.
Laytime, demurrage and despatch calculator.
Drag and drop your papers and get your laytime statement.
No account, no card.
Already have an account?
The calculator itself needs no account at all — open it and settle the voyage on your desk right now. An account, which is free, is what keeps your statements so you can open them again next week.
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Runs in any browser, on desktop and mobile. Prefer a native app? Both install directly — no app store, no middleman, and payment straight through your own bank.
Windows will show a security warning the first time you run the installer, because we have not yet bought a code-signing certificate. Choose More info, then Run anyway. The Mac app is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens normally.