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MarginSentry / COMMERCIAL RISK

PHYSICAL ENERGY / DEMURRAGE & MARGIN PROTECTION

Know what demurrage may actually stay with your desk.

While the exposure is still developing.

What you may owe the Owner is only half the position. MarginSentry connects reviewed events and contract terms to potential recovery, uncovered exposure and the actions your desk needs to take.

Controlled evaluation for physical-energy trading and demurrage practitioners.

Illustrative aerial view of tankers alongside a petroleum terminal at dawn
ONE PORT CALL. DIFFERENT CONTRACTUAL POSITIONS.

01 / FOLLOW THE POSITION

From the port hour
to the commercial gap.

One traceable chain. Human-reviewed facts and terms remain the basis of the financial position.

  1. 01

    Port events

    Record what happened. Review the facts.

  2. 02

    Contract rules

    Review the terms for each contract leg.

  3. 03

    Owner exposure

    See the reviewed payable position.

  4. 04

    Potential recovery

    Compare Purchase and Sale positions.

  5. 05

    Attributed coverage

    Identify which recovery covers which exposure.

  6. 06

    Uncovered exposure

    See the gap that needs your attention.

  7. 07

    Margin at risk

    Understand the effect on the reviewed commercial position.

  8. 08

    Claims / recovery actions

    Follow the work needed to pursue the position.

Then follow margin at risk, claim actions and reported outcomes — without treating potential recovery as cash.

02 / THE POSITION THAT MATTERS

Exposure is visible.
Coverage must be earned.

A recovery position under a Purchase or Sale contract does not automatically cover the Owner position. Review the basis, make the attribution, and see what remains uncovered.

Uncovered exposure is reviewed Owner exposure not covered by attributed potential recovery. It is not a final loss or a guarantee of collectibility. Missing inputs remain unknown.

ILLUSTRATIVE RELATIONSHIP / NOT LIVE DATA

Reviewed Owner exposurePayable basis
Less attributed potential coverageReviewed allocation
Uncovered exposureThe part needing attention

Illustrative relationship only. The live position depends on your reviewed sources.

RECOVERY GAP WIDENING

When the Owner position keeps rising.
And recovery does not keep pace.

See when Owner exposure rises faster than attributed recovery. Uncovered burn helps your desk understand the rate at which the gap is developing on the reviewed basis — and decide what to review, negotiate or pursue.

Current risk attention. No prediction of final settlement or cap-exhaustion time.

03 / BACK-TO-BACK CONTRACT INTELLIGENCE

Same event.
Different rules. Different exposure.

NOR, commencement, allowances, exclusions, counting percentages, cutoffs and caps can differ across contract legs. Supported structured rules make those differences visible.

REVIEW EACH LEG

Owner / Charter Party

What is the payable position?

Reviewed commencement · counting basis · allowance · supported limits

REVIEW EACH LEG

Purchase / Seller

What might be recoverable here?

Reviewed commencement · counting basis · allowance · supported limits

REVIEW EACH LEG

Sale / Buyer

What might be recoverable here?

Reviewed commencement · counting basis · allowance · supported limits

Operators review supported terms and unresolved clauses. MarginSentry does not automatically interpret arbitrary contract prose or determine legal liability.

04 / CLAIMS EXECUTION INTELLIGENCE

A recovery calculation
is the start of the work.

Keep the claim, the reviewed position, the agreement and reported cash distinct. Follow deadlines, evidence relationships and execution gaps before a potential recovery falls between desks.

  1. Calculated position
  2. Proposed / submitted claim
  3. Reviewed claim position
  4. Agreed amount
  5. Reported paid / received

Find the follow-through gap. Potential recovery leakage and recovery execution gaps draw attention where comparable reviewed bases support them.

Challenge with a basis. Compare an Owner claim with the reviewed position. A difference is a point to investigate, not proven savings or a legal determination.

Reported cash is an operator observation. It is not accounting or bank-certified reconciliation.

05 / TEST THE FACTS. RETAIN THE LESSONS.

Better questions.
A clearer basis for action.

01 / SOF FINANCIAL SENSITIVITY

What changes if the timestamps change?

Reconcile source assertions, examine discrepancies and compare alternative SOF scenarios against the reviewed basis. Understand the financial sensitivity before deciding what to challenge.

An alternative is scenario analysis. It does not automatically replace the authoritative timeline, financial run or claim.

02 / PRIVATE TERMINAL INTELLIGENCE

What did your own history teach you?

Review eligible completed calls, historical ranges, delay categories and claim outcomes within your firm. Keep terminal identity and the underlying sample visible.

Descriptive experience from your own reviewed history. Not a forecast, a global benchmark or another firm’s data.

06 / MANAGEMENT RISK DESK

See the gap.
Know where to look next.

Review uncovered exposure, claim and time-bar attention, recovery follow-through and material SOF discrepancies. Follow the source, with stale or incomplete positions disclosed.

Commercial attention, alongside operational discipline.

Configured commercial-risk alerts and the opt-in Morning Risk Summary extend the existing operational layer: Sentry lifecycle, free-time, demurrage, threshold and margin notifications, plus Morning Dispatch.

Telegram and email delivery depend on configured policies, verified destinations and recipient access. Not every alert is sent on every channel. Legacy clocks and reviewed financial positions retain their own labelled bases.

07 / MANUAL SENTRY

Operator initiated.
System monitored.
Commercially intelligent.

Your team records events and reviews terms. Configured background monitoring follows the saved position. No AIS feed, autonomous document interpretation or Automatic Sentry is implied.

The working record behind the position

Voyage workspace · reviewed timeline · contracts and rules · claims · SOF reconciliation · terminal history · team roles · evidence metadata · private in-app feedback.

Documents are metadata and evidence relationships only. Binary upload, file retrieval, OCR and AI extraction are unavailable.

BUILT FOR A REVIEWED POSITION

Keep the basis visible.
Keep responsibility clear.

Firm-separated workspaces, explicit Operator / Coordinator / Director permissions, reviewed revisions and traceable history support controlled evaluation. Unknown and stale positions are disclosed rather than made to look certain.

A focused decision-support workspace.

MarginSentry connects demurrage exposure, potential recovery and execution. It is not a full ETRM, inventory or hedging system, vessel-management platform, accounting ledger or legal adviser.

USD-only analytics. Supported rules require human review. Private-pilot engineering checks are not independent certification or practitioner validation.

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CONTROLLED PRIVATE PILOT

Evaluate it against
the decisions your desk makes.

For a small number of physical-energy trading and demurrage practitioners. Access is approved individually; public self-registration is closed.

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