Laytime & demurrage verification for bulk cargo

Pay only the demurrage you owe.

Laytrue reads your charter party and Statement of Facts, recalculates every hour of laytime, and checks each claimed event against real vessel tracks and weather records. You see exactly where a claim is wrong — and what it is worth.

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Built in Casablanca by bulk commodity operators
Claim audit · MV [Vessel name]
Example voyage
Event Claimed Laytrue finding Hours
NOR tendered 06:00 Vessel reached anchorage 11:40 (AIS) −5.7
Rain stop Not excluded Rain recorded 14:00–19:00 −5.0
Public holiday Counted Excluded under SHEX −10.5
21.2 hours over-claimed at $15,000/day
−$13,250

Most demurrage claims are paid without being checked.

Not because nobody cares — because checking them properly takes days nobody has.

Spreadsheets everywhere

Laytime is rebuilt by hand, one claim at a time, in a sheet only one person understands.

Facts nobody can verify

Did it really rain? Was the vessel really at anchorage when the NOR was tendered? Without evidence, you pay.

Time bars that slip by

Documents travel by email for weeks. By the time the claim is ready, the right to dispute it may be gone.

How it works

From documents to a defensible answer in three steps.

1

Send your documents

Upload or simply forward the charter party, NOR, Statement of Facts and the owner's claim — PDF, scan or photo.

2

Laytrue rebuilds the port call

AI extracts the clauses and events. Our engine recounts laytime and checks every event against ship tracking, weather and port holidays.

3

Get your audit and claim pack

See every discrepancy with its dollar impact, and send a professional counter-statement, backed by evidence.

Features

Everything a demurrage desk needs. Nothing it doesn't.

AI document reading

Reads charter parties, recaps, NORs and Statements of Facts — even scans. You confirm each clause and event with the source text beside it.

Exact laytime engine

SHINC, SHEX, weather working days, reversible and averaged laytime, once on demurrage, despatch at half rate — calculated to the minute.

Evidence from the real world

Every claimed event is checked against vessel tracking (AIS), historical weather and official port holidays — automatically.

Side-by-side claim audit

The owner's or seller's statement next to yours, with every difference flagged and priced in dollars.

Time-bar alerts

A countdown on every claim, with reminders by email and WhatsApp before the deadline — so no claim is lost to the calendar.

Claim statements, ready to send

Laytime statements and counter-claims in English and French, with your logo and a full audit trail behind every hour.

Who it's for

Built for the side of the table that pays.

Importers & receivers

Fertilizer, grain, feed, clinker and sugar buyers who pay discharge demurrage and want to check every claim before they pay it.

Commodity traders

Trading desks running back-to-back contracts, who need the charter party claim and the sales-contract claim to match — without losing margin.

Agents & surveyors

Port agents and surveyors who prepare the facts — and want to give their clients a clean, verified laytime statement.

Our story

We built the tool we wished we had.

We have stood on the quay at Casablanca, Jorf Lasfar and Abidjan more times than we can count. Rain that never fell. NORs tendered before the ship arrived. Holidays counted as working days. Claims we paid because there was no time to check them.

After 25 years importing and trading fertilizers, grain and feed across Africa and the Middle East, we decided it was time someone built a tool for the people who receive the cargo — and receive the claims.

Laytrue reads the documents, checks every hour against the ship's real track and the real weather, and tells you exactly what you owe. And what you don't.

Every hour, counted honestly.

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Mark Eriksen
CEO · [Mark's background in one line]
m.eriksen@laytrue.com

At $15,000 a day, every 12 hours counted wrongly costs you $7,500.

One corrected claim usually pays for a year of Laytrue.

Check my last voyage — free

Questions

Are my documents and contracts kept confidential?

Yes. Each company works in its own private workspace, documents are encrypted, and your data is never shared with other clients or counterparties.

Which charter parties does Laytrue handle?

Voyage charter parties for dry bulk, including standard forms and fixture recaps. The AI extracts the laytime clauses; you confirm them before anything is calculated.

Does it replace my demurrage analyst?

No. It removes the data entry and the arithmetic, and gives your team evidence they could never gather by hand. The judgement stays with your people.

Which ports are covered?

Laytime calculation works for any port. Holiday calendars and evidence checks start with Morocco and West Africa and expand with our clients' trades.

How much does it cost?

Plans start at [PRICE] per month. Your first voyage audit is free, with no commitment.

Free voyage audit

Send us one recent voyage. We'll show you what we find.

Share the charter party, Statement of Facts and the claim you received. We'll return a full laytime audit with every discrepancy priced — free, confidential, no commitment.

We reply within one business day.

We'll send a secure link to upload your documents. We never share your data.