Every hour a critical pump seal remains broken at sea translates into spiralling costs: fuel over-burn, schedule disruption, and charter-party penalties. Traditional stockpiling or last-minute agent sourcing rarely fixes the timing problem. Ship’s Solutions applies a just-in-time (JIT) model inspired by automotive OEMs and aerospace MROs, holding only strategic high-risk items in consolidation hubs while forecasting real demand for everything else.

Our engineers maintain a continuously updated criticality matrix in which each component receives a downtime risk score tied to live OEM lead-time data. Machine-learning algorithms flag low stock or transport bottlenecks days before a requisition appears, allowing procurement to pre-stage items along major trade lanes and arrange door-to-gangway delivery windows.

Multimodal routing closes the loop: a turbocharger nozzle ring for Santos might take a red-eye flight out of Schiphol, clear customs on an ATA carnet, then finish the last mile by helicopter. For ‘closer’ operations our rider-courier service boards the vessel directly at anchorage. Throughout the journey, temperature, shock and chain-of-custody scans feed a live dashboard visible to both ship and superintendent.

Transparency builds trust. Owners see exactly where a shipment sits, charterers gain confidence in ETA reliability, and insurers recognise a lower operational risk profile. Because the platform is vendor-agnostic, a client can plug in its own ERP stock records or class survey schedule, creating a closed feedback loop between planned maintenance and supply fulfilment.

The numbers justify the effort: average spare-part lead time drops 38 %, unplanned off-hire days fall by half, and crews spend more time on preventive tasks rather than RFQs. JIT is not gambling; it is disciplined data-driven logistics that ensures the right part is in the right port at precisely the right moment—keeping vessels moving and revenue flowing.