The Challenge

Shipping companies negotiate contracts worth millions of dollars daily, yet most reviews still depend on what individual, legally untrained chartering managers happen to remember.
The industry carries a strange paradox: junior charterers are expected to review contracts that require a decade of experience to do well, while even senior professionals cannot possibly retain every lesson from thousands of past fixtures, disputes, and operational incidents.

The Solution

Marcura collaborated with Tomini Chartering to build AI-driven CP Optimiser that acts as an organisational memory and contract review partner. Rather than replacing human judgement, the solution feeds the right lessons, precedents, risks, and operational experiences into the review process at exactly the moment they are needed.
CP Optimiser reviews charterparties against years of accumulated company knowledge, highlights hidden risks, and ensures that learning from yesterday’s mistakes improves tomorrow’s contracts.

The Result

The outcome is not just faster contract reviews, but it is a fundamentally different way of working. Tomini Chartering has moved to the correct division of labour: CP Optimiser handles complexity, while human judgement masters equivocality and nuance.
Junior staff now have access to the collective experience of the organisation from day one, senior staff avoid repeating old mistakes, and charterparty negotiations have become more consistent, data-driven, and resilient.

“For decades, shipping has treated experience as something that walks out the door every evening and retires after 40 years. CP Optimiser gives us the opportunity to turn experience into scalable AI-driven infrastructure, that lets juniors apply the knowledge of a senior from day one.”

Thomas Stjernholm, Managing Director – Commercial, Tomini Chartering

About Tomini Chartering

Tomini Chartering is the commercial chartering arm of Tomini Group, a leading global dry bulk shipowner with over 75 years of maritime heritage. The company facilitates chartering solutions for agricultural products, energy resources, and industrial raw materials across global trade routes.