Despatches by Vessel (Shipments)

• Despatches by Vessel (Shipments)
• • Shipment Creation
  • Shipment Status
  • Vessel Nominations
  • Shipment Laycans
  • Loading and Unloading Vessels
  • Draft Surveys and DU Draft Surveys
  • Bills of Lading
  • Videos
  • Activities Common to all Despatch Types

A shipment in MineMarket is a despatch of material by vessel. Despatching by vessel involves transporting bulk material or discrete units along a ship route from a loading location to an unloading location and all associated activities (for example, sampling). Despatch orders can be associated with a shipment to provide the link between sales or purchase contracts and the despatched material. Service charges can be added to calculate the costs of freight or other services that can be invoiced.

Shipments can be created from a template. The template defines the route and may define default process flows and stockpiles for loading and unloading transactions.

Shipment Creation

Use the Shipment Explorer to create, view and edit shipments; and to create multiple shipments from a template.

Alternatively, you can create individual shipments from the (right-click) context menu of a shipment template in the Solution Explorer.

Shipment Status

If the Shipment status definition exists, when you create a shipment, the shipment is assigned the initial status. This status definition controls whether the shipment is editable and selectable. See Status Definitions.

Vessel Nominations

Vessel nomination means a nomination of a vessel to ship the nominated tonnage on a nominated vessel within a shipping window held by the customer under the access agreement of a port. In sales contracts with 'free on board' (FOB) delivery terms, the seller’s obligations are limited to shipping the cargo FOB. The buyer is obliged to nominate the vessel, and to ensure it is ready for loading at the contractual loading port at the agreed time.

When a vessel is assigned to a shipment, MineMarket creates a vessel nomination for the shipment. Vessel nominations can be accepted or rejected.

Shipment Laycans

The laycan is the period during which the vessel owner must indicate that the vessel is at the port and ready for loading.

The word 'laycan' is a combination of 'laydays' and 'cancelling', which are the first and last days of the period. The charterer does not have to accept the vessel until the laydays date, even if the vessel is ready earlier. If the vessel is not ready by the cancelling date, the charterer may reject the vessel.

Loading and Unloading Vessels

For bulk material, the transfer of material from a stockpile onto a vessel is a shipment loading transaction and the transfer of material from the vessel to a stockpile is a shipment unloading transaction. Hatch loading plans can be used to create shipment loading transactions. A process flow with the loading port as a destination is required for shipment bulk loading. A process flow with the unloading port as a source is required for shipment bulk unloading. See Create a Process Flow.

For discrete units (DUs), the transfer of packages or package groups from a warehouse onto a vessel is a shipment loading movement and the transfer of packages or package groups from the vessel to a warehouse is a shipment unloading movement. A movement flow with the loading port as a destination is required for shipment DU loading. A movement flow with the unloading port as a source is required for shipment DU unloading.

When predefined routes are used for a shipment, the Loading Only, Unloading Only or Both setting for the route point locations is inherited from the ship route. See Create a Ship Route.

When dynamic routes are defined, whether a route point location is Loading Only, Unloading Only or Both is determined by whether material flows (that is, process flows or movement flows) exist from or to that location. If material flows only exist to that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Loading. If material flows only exist from that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Unloading. If material flows exist to and from that location, the activity can be either Loading or Unloading, with Loading used as the default.

For shipments created from a template, the template defines the route and may define default process flows and stockpiles for loading and unloading transactions. See Set up a Shipment Template.

Draft Surveys and DU Draft Surveys

A draft survey with a back calculation corrects the quantities of the bulk loading or unloading transactions. A draft survey may be useful if measurements taken by a draft surveyor are available and the calculation of the loaded or unloaded mass is more accurate than the measurements recorded by loading or unloading equipment.

A discrete unit (DU) draft survey with a back calculation corrects the quantities of the DU loading or unloading movements.

Bills of Lading

A bill of lading is a contract or receipt issued by a transport company to a shipper that lists the quantity, type, and destination of the materials being despatched.

In MineMarket, the bill of lading date is specific to a despatch order and is used as a reference date for many snapshot and invoice calculations.

For other shipping notices, see Enter Shipment Document Delivery Details.

Videos

A Datamine consultant recorded this video about shipment loading plans in MineMarket.

A Datamine consultant recorded this video about shipment draft surveys in MineMarket.

Activities Common to all Despatch Types

For information about despatch states, load states, direct loading between despatch types, despatch quality, traceability, costs and service charges, see Despatches - Common Activities.