What PortPulse does
Four parts of the app. Each says what it shows and what it does not do.
Today: what to do this morning
A table of the port calls at your ports, sorted by ETA. Each row carries the shipowner, the nomination status and one action: Remind, Pitch or Qualify. The counts at the top filter the board and nothing else.
Does not: send messages for you, or ask a provider for data when you click.
Shipowners: company, contacts and history
For each shipowner: the relationship (Client, Prospect, Unassigned or Unknown), the company with the registry contacts, what you have already logged (calls, notes and reminders sent) and the fleet.
Does not: assert who the shipowner is when only the name looks alike. It shows “possible match”.
Watches: change alerts
A watch combines places and vessel criteria and tells you in the app and, if you choose, by email, right away or in a daily digest. Any search result can become a watch. The eight kinds of change:
- Scheduled arrival
- Arrived at port
- ETA change
- Destination change
- Vessel identity change
- AIS nav status change
- Area entry/exit
- Sanction status change
Does not: treat a sanctions screening as a legal finding.
Know when something changes
A watch for client ships at Santos: pick the changes that matter, and PortPulse reports them in the app.
Recorded in PortPulse with real vessel positions and public registry data. The agency, its users and the client and prospect labels belong to a demo workspace. The shipowners, companies and contacts shown have no relationship with PortPulse.
What the video shows
- “Notifications” lists what a watch found: changes come to you instead of you re-checking.
- Eight kinds of change, from “ETA change” to “Sanction status change”.
- A rule for an “ETA change” at the ports you work in.
- Sanctions screening is added as a second rule.
- The scope is set to “Client” ships, with alerts in the app.
- “Create watch” saves it, with its name, rules, scope and delivery.
- The point: stop re-checking the same ships.
Intelligence: who moves the most vessels
Calls over time, share by relationship, volume per port and the top ten shipowners, by period and port. Every chart has a table view, and the list can be exported as CSV.
Does not: vanity charts. Every number here is about port calls at your ports.
Where the data comes from and how it reaches you
Positions come from AIS feeds, ownership and contacts from a ship registry. Everything is stored in PortPulse and refreshed in the background. The interface shows the age of each piece of data, never “live”, and works in Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish.