
Analyst - Container Shipping Operations
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Container Shipping Operator is responsible to fully optimize the shipping operations by following adequate processes to ensure a smooth and efficient execution of the activity.Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:Key Responsibilities
- Markets and related dynamics awareness about commodities, volumes, stakeholders, local supply chain, purchase/sale incoterms, local requirements and specificities.
- Ports operations monitoring involving containers supply, ports congestion and local activities.
- Shipments booking observing carriers’ nominations and following commercial shipping team instructions.
- Space allocations management.
- Shipments organization and follow-up from load port to discharge port including transshipment operations and eventual cargo diversions to ensure a full shipments optimization.
- Shipping documentation follow-up including shipping instructions submission, packing lists verification, BL drafts approval, LC requirements observation, timely OBL issuance and dispatch.
- Communication and coordination with all concerned team members (warehouses, shipping lines, customs agents, etc) and in-house departments (trading, operations, finance, accounting, etc).
- Costs disputes (containers damages, demurrage and/or detention) handling and critical issue.
- Freight invoices verification and payments approbation.
- Carriers statement of accounts management, observing the pre-agreed credit terms.
- Monthly statistics reporting.
- Previous experience (minimum 3 years) in the shipping industry (preferably in shipping operations related departments at a shipping line or at a freight forwarding company).
- Familiar with Incoterms & Shipping terms
- Good knowledge of shipping documentation processes
- Good maritime geography knowledge
- Organized and diligent
- Problem solver
- Team player
- Ability to work under pressure
- Strong communication skill
- Chartering and Operations Team
- All Intercompany Trading desks
- Disbursements
- Post fixing and Claims Departments
- Owners, Vessel’s, & 3rd Party Charterers
- Service Providers
- Shipping agents/Vetting organizers
- Trading Desk
- Deals Desk
- Trade Finance Desk
- Customers