Phil Stalley

Demurrage Specialist · Founder, HubSE

Phil has been around the demurrage industry for the best part of 40 years, having worked as a Ship Operator with BP, a chartering and operations manager, and now as the founder of HubSE Demurrage Software. He writes about laytime, demurrage, negotiation and the wider commercial shipping world on Phil's Demurrage Blog.

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Demurrage Spreadsheets Vs Software — hero image

18 May 2026

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Laytime and Demurrage Software: The Real Cost of Spreadsheets, and What Works Instead

Nine out of ten spreadsheets contain errors. For something as commercial as demurrage, that's a big bet.

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Dog-eared copy of the BP World-Wide Marine Distance Tables, a printed marine distance table volume

26 Jun 2026

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Marine distance tables, and how sea distances between ports are measured

From dog-eared BP marine distance tables to one-click answers — how demurrage data changed in a generation.

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