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Vessel-call pattern report
A vessel-call pattern report arranges a year or a season of calls by trade, length, and agent, so thinning and thickening trades are visible on the page.
Who it is for
Port authorities, conservancy clerks, and agents preparing a trade paper.
Port authorities and shipping agents preparing a trade paper or a conservancy review.
What you receive
Tables and charts of calls, with a narrative that keeps fishing, bunkering, and lay-by distinct from cargo.
Scope
One port or harbour. Comparison with a second year is included when both logs are supplied.
Included
- Cleaning of agent abbreviations with your nominated contact
- Call mix charts and a written narrative
- A note on trades too thin to rest an argument on
Not included
- Forecasting next year’s calls
- Commercial valuation of the harbour
- Agent performance scoring
Who carries out the work
Content Craftline, Blackstone.
How the work proceeds
- Logs in. A year is better than a month. Two years is better still.
- Name the trades. You confirm how you want fishing, leisure, and cargo separated.
- Report. Draft, corrections, bound copy if you wish.
Time
Three to five weeks.
Where the work happens
Mostly from Blackstone. A day on the quay is added when the log cannot explain a cluster of calls.
What we ask you to prepare
A list of regular agents and the trades they usually handle.
Limits we will not stretch
Anonymous or incomplete entries stay in an ‘unassigned’ column; we do not guess the cargo.
Fee basis
From £2,400. A bound run of copies is charged at cost.
Rates are informational. There is no payment on this site. Instruct us by writing; we send a letter of engagement before any on-quay day is booked.
Next step
Attach a month of the call log so we can see the state of the record.