About VertomCory
VertomCory uses BigOceanData to support:
- Global vessel visibility across dry bulk and tanker fleets
- Market intelligence and research analysis
- Faster identification and investigation of STS activity
- Broader port coverage and richer client insight
- Weather-informed planning and operational awareness
Challenge
VertomCory needed a reliable way to monitor vessel activity across global dry bulk and tanker markets while responding to growing demand for deeper market intelligence and faster client insight.
To do this effectively, the team needed more than real-time vessel positions alone. They required a broader operational picture that combined live movements with historical tracking, forward-looking activity, and detailed vessel characteristics. This would support deeper analysis of trading patterns, fleet composition, cargo suitability, and operational behaviour across a wider geographic range.
A particular challenge was the analysis of complex ship-to-ship (STS) transfers, which could be time-intensive to identify and investigate manually. VertomCory needed a faster, more scalable way to surface these activities and turn them into actionable insight.
Solution Provided by BigOceanData
BigOceanData has become a core part of VertomCory’s workflow, providing the visibility and intelligence needed to support both internal analysis and client-facing services.
Using the platform, VertomCory monitors dry bulk and tanker fleets with a high degree of accuracy, combining real-time vessel positions, historical tracking, and forward-looking activity to build a clearer picture of expected arrivals, departures, and trading patterns across global routes.
Access to detailed vessel characteristics has strengthened the work of VertomCory’s Market Intelligence and Research team, enabling deeper analysis of fleet composition, cargo suitability, and operational behaviour. This has helped teams make faster, more informed decisions across the organisation.
Advanced query functionality has also transformed the way VertomCory analyses ship-to-ship transfers. Activities that once took hours to investigate can now be identified and reviewed in minutes, creating a more efficient and scalable insight capability.
By expanding visibility across a broader range of ports, BigOceanData has helped VertomCory enhance its service offering with richer insight and wider geographic coverage. Integrated weather data adds a further layer of intelligence, helping teams assess environmental impacts on vessel movements, improve planning accuracy, and support safer, more efficient operations.
Outcomes
Broader market visibility
VertomCory combines real-time, historical and forward-looking vessel data to build a clearer picture of global trading activity.
Faster STS analysis
Advanced query functionality has reduced the time needed to identify and investigate complex ship-to-ship transfers from hours to minutes.
Stronger research capability
Detailed vessel characteristics and historical activity support deeper analysis of fleet composition, cargo suitability and operational behaviour.
Greater client value
Broader port coverage, richer insight and bespoke reporting have strengthened VertomCory’s client offering.
Weather-informed planning
Integrated weather intelligence helps teams assess environmental impacts on vessel movements and improve planning accuracy, safety and operational efficiency.
Improved operational efficiency
By giving teams faster access to vessel activity, port information and voyage context, BigOceanData helps streamline analysis, reduce manual effort and support more efficient day-to-day workflows.
“Our contract renewal with BigOceanData is a testament to the continued excellence of service and support the team provides. BigOceanData has been and will continue to be one of our key service providers at VertomCory, helping us to enhance the service package we provide to our key clients.”
Neil Flower
Agency Director
Closing summary
Over more than ten years of partnership, BigOceanData has become embedded in VertomCory’s day-to-day workflow — enhancing situational awareness, improving efficiency, and enabling the delivery of high-value, intelligence-led services to its customers.
