Voyager Blog
Welcome to the Voyager blog. We hope you’ll find these insights on demurrage, marine supply chain, and bulk shipping of value to your business.

Q1 Product update
Voyager continues its mission to add core features to enhance its collaborative capabilities and allow more information from third parties to enter the platform. At

Why I Joined Voyager Portal: From Kings Point, to sailing and onto maritime tech
Bob sitting in the Engine Control room of the USNS Pollux during Operations Desert Storm

Visibility beyond AIS: Multi-layered visibility provides insights during the Suez closure
When the 400-meter containership Ever Given clogged the Suez Canal on Wednesday, thousands of phones around the world were ringing with calls from frantic, nervous

Lack of supply chain visibility particularly acute in project logistics
Article by Janet Nodar, Senior Editor, Breakbulk and Heavy Lift Supply chain visibility — or rather, the lack thereof — is a chronic frustration across

Voyager Portal takes part in SXSW to discuss marine supply chains and building a tech company in Houston
Natalie Harms from Houston Innovation Map sat down to chat with Matthew Costello, CEO of Voyager Portal about founding a company in Houston, the thriving

2020 – A year of Growth
Houston – December 23rd, 2020 – Voyager Portal, a leading marine supply chain visibility and automation platform, today announced its strongest year yet as it

Intermodal Visibility Across Supply Chains
The Voyager Portal allows large companies to see how their waterborne cargoes affect land-based shipments, and vice versa — we are truly solving a complex,

Announcement: Chinsay and Voyager Portal Form Strategic Partnership
SINGAPORE/HOUSTON, 18th November 2020 | Press Release Chinsay, the leading digitalisation software provider for freight and commodity markets, and Voyager Portal, the workflow automation and visibility

Automate your ETA collection to drive productivity and supply chain visibility
Each day billions of ETA updates are sent by shipowners and carriers to numerous service providers. This includes brokers, freight forwarders, agents, and charterers. For

Best in class maritime shipping software adapts to your workflows vs forcing you to adapt to it
The lack of flexibility of maritime shipping software to adapt to the nuances of the industry has forced users and companies to rely on email

Voyager Platform Features: Demurrage Early Warning System
Demurrage has historically been an after the fact calculation done by charterers, brokers, and shipowners. These calculations are a factor of laytime used vs laytime

Demystifying the Confusing World of ETA Updates
The single most important information of a shipment is hands down the ETA. The cargo arrival date drives scores of business decisions: when can it

Voyager Summer Reflection – Intern Edition
My Summer at Voyager Over the past two months, I have served as an intern for Voyager. My time as an intern has looked a

Breaking Down Voyager’s Mission
Advancing the energy industry towards a zero waste and transparent marine supply chain ‘Advancing the energy industry’ Voyager Portal’s customers play a critical role in

Voyager Platform Features: Dynamic Deadline Management
With customers across multiple verticals, we quickly realized tracking task deadlines isn’t a one size fits all use case. Many of the workflows we build

Digital Transformation: 5 Reasons It Fails
You’ve been doing the same thing for the last 5 years and it’s working. You don’t have any major problems today and for the most

What if the maritime industry used a digital Statement of Facts?
The ‘What If’ series is a series of blog posts that challenge the possibility of traditions in the maritime industry and provides insight into what

Life as a Voyager Intern
For the past month, I have served as an intern for Voyager. I have been graciously accepted into the company with open arms from the

Voyager Platform Features: Workflow Modeler
If we were to dissect the Voyager platform and look at the engine of the system, we would see the workflow modeler. Whether users need

Episode 3: How do you know what processes within your company would be better managed using a workflow application?
In our multi-episode series, Voyager CEO Mathew Costello discusses workflows, technology & where the 2 intersect with the maritime industry. Today’s episode discusses how to