{
  "id": 18579870,
  "title": "Tired of manual, repetitive work that leaves too little time to do business and create value?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/tired-of-manual-repetitive-work-that-leaves-too-little-time-to-do",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-06T22:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hellenic Shipping News",
    "slug": "hellenic-shipping-news",
    "url": "https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/tired-of-manual-repetitive-work-that-leaves-too-little-time-to-do-business-and-create-value/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In maritime business, endless tasks leave little time for actual business and creating value. Shipping vessels, markets, and customers are constantly moving, causing congestion, changing prices, and emerging opportunities. Quick decisions are often required, yet many maritime professionals still waste considerable time searching for information, updating colleagues, and dealing with fragmented data. This manual, repetitive work is not just an operational inconvenience; it can have a significant commercial cost, as fragmented software and manual tasks often mean the business that could have been done is lost.\n\nThe use of multiple maritime software solutions has become common, each addressing specific needs. However, these tools create fragmentation, as employees must move between systems, connect information, and manually input data. Instead of reducing work, these tools often create more of it. ShipIntel Essentials aims to change this approach by integrating essential maritime features, real-time and historical AIS data, and user-specific data in one solution. Its main proposition is to combine maritime intelligence, everyday workflows, team collaboration, and private company data in one environment.\n\nImagine looking up a vessel, port, or company and having all the relevant information connected to it. ShipIntel provides a vessel page with real-time AIS information, voyage history, trading patterns, ownership, insurance, sanctions, and technical descriptions. Port pages display vessels that have visited, current anchorages, bunker grades and prices, holidays, local time, weather forecasts, and more. Your team can also connect private information like documents, photos, shared notes, and email correspondence to vessels, ports, and companies, ensuring all relevant data is easily accessible.\n\nShipIntel also enables users to create alerts for vessels, ports, and areas, receiving notifications via email, Microsoft Teams, pop-ups, and mobile devices. By connecting email with maritime entities and workflows, relevant information buried in messages becomes part of the maritime context, eliminating the need to search through inboxes. Dynamic vessel lists can be created using criteria such as technical characteristics, ownership, classification, insurance, and sanctions, automatically updating when vessels meet or no longer meet the criteria. This allows for continuous monitoring instead of rebuilding the same market picture every day.\n\nUltimately, ShipIntel aims to reduce manual work and repetitive tasks, allowing maritime professionals to focus on their experience, relationships, and judgment. By automating the collection and monitoring of information, ShipIntel enables users to find, route, compare, and calculate alternatives without starting from scratch. Instead of spending hours searching for changes, the relevant changes come to you. ShipIntel believes software should work differently, bringing maritime intelligence, workflows, collaboration, and data together in one environment to create more time for business.",
  "summary": "Shipping has never been a slow-moving business. Vessels move. Markets move. Customers call. Ports become congested. Bunker prices change. New opportunities appear. Risks develop. Decisions often need to be made quickly. Yet many maritime professionals still spend a surprisingly large part of their working day searching for information, checking different systems, copying data into spreadsheets,…",
  "key_points": [
    "Shipping professionals waste time on manual tasks",
    "Fragmented software creates more work",
    "ShipIntel integrates maritime data in one solution"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}