Original Optimization Models at the Core

Marine Solver is powered by a suite of proprietary economic-mathematical models built specifically for commercial voyage optimization and fleet decision-making. These are not off-the-shelf algorithms, but purpose-built formulations designed to reflect the real dynamics of maritime transport: uncertain markets, changing cargo availability, operational constraints, and regulatory costs.

This modeling foundation makes Marine Solver fundamentally different from navigation or routing tools. It operates at the commercial layer - selecting cargoes, assembling voyage chains, evaluating trade-offs, and optimizing outcomes across cost, time, emissions and profitability.

Rapid Scenario Analysis & Multi-Option Output

Shipping decisions evolve while the market evolves. Marine Solver is designed for fast recalculation when inputs change — new cargoes appear, fuel prices move, constraints tighten, or commercial priorities shift. Users can quickly re-run optimization and generate updated voyage-chain scenarios within minutes.

Each run produces not a single “answer”, but a set of viable alternatives. Compare scenarios side by side and choose the option that best fits the moment - whether you prioritize total cost (including EU ETS), time exposure, emissions targets, or commercial profitability.

Intelligent Voyage Chain Construction

Unlike traditional tools focused on isolated voyages, Marine Solver builds cohesive voyage chains — sequences of sailings optimized across commercial, technical, and environmental dimensions. This approach reveals systemic opportunities that are often invisible in fragmented planning: better positioning, improved utilization, reduced ballast, and stronger continuity of employment.

Voyage-chain optimization is especially valuable for tanker and bulker operations where “the best next voyage” is not always the best overall plan. Marine Solver helps evaluate decisions in context - what a choice means not only today, but for the next steps of the vessel or fleet.

Operational Constraints Modeled with Precision

Real-world feasibility is at the heart of our system. Each solution accounts for essential operational parameters such as laycan windows, port rotations, vessel speed, fuel consumption, and market conditions - ensuring that plans are both optimal and executable. Marine Solver also includes built-in automatic detection of key voyage elements: shipping canals (Suez, Panama, Kiel and others), EU ports and SECA ports/zones.

These detectors support accurate cost modeling and compliance logic: canal tolls are included, EU ETS shipping costs can be modelled directly in the optimizer, and fuel requirements are applied correctly across SECA/non-SECA segments. Marine Solver supports fuel differentiation (VLSFO and FO/HFO) so you can stress-test scenarios under realistic bunkers assumptions, rather than relying on simplified averages.

Marine Solver also allows you to incorporate already committed cargoes by marking shipments as mandatory based on existing contracts, and define cargo–vessel compatibility rules so that certain goods are only matched with technically appropriate vessels. This becomes especially powerful when optimizing schedules across complex cargo sets.

Fleet-Wide Planning and Transport Modes

The platform supports both single-vessel decisions and full-fleet coordination - enabling systemic efficiency gains. Marine Solver accommodates multiple transport modes: Solo Cargo (full vessel loads), Part Cargo (advanced planning for partial loads and multi-cargo combinations), and COA planning (module under development for contract-of-affreightment and fleet-level scenario evaluation).

This structure reflects how shipping businesses operate in practice: spot decisions, part-cargo optimization, and longer-horizon contract planning — all requiring a consistent economic and mathematical modelling layer.

Sustainability in Focus - CO₂ and compliance-aware optimization

Environmental performance is increasingly central to fleet operations. Marine Solver integrates sustainability into the same decision framework as commercial performance: it can optimize scenarios under emissions considerations while also accounting for real costs such as bunkers, canals, port fees and EU ETS.

Marine Solver calculates each vessel’s IMO CII (AER) for a voyage or voyage chain, compares it to the Required CII baseline, and lets you enforce targets as hard constraints. Stress-test scenarios to maintain CII grades while meeting commercial KPIs - with EU ETS costs already modeled inside the optimizer.