About us

Westline Shipbrokers is a boutique shipbroking house based on the River Plate basin located on East Coast of South America (ECSA)

We aim to provide to shipowners, vessel operators, charterers & traders engaged in the bulk /breakbulk trades with first-class shipbroking services by adding real value in relevant aspects of dry cargo chartering during fixing and post-fixing stages.

Being active with main regional players trading from/to ECSA, as well as well-known international accounts trading on worldwide basis, this enables us to capitalize wealth of experience in dealing with major bulk commodities such as coking coal, metallurgical coal, petcoke, iron ore, semi-finished and finished steels products as well as grains, thus having gained valuable leaning from the different tonnage segments, areas and trade patterns.

We do foster an unwavering culture based on a thorough knowledge of all key aspects concerning to commercial, operational, and technical stuffs of ship-chartering and cargoes handled, while assuring strict confidentiality in each fixture.

Despite being a small-size company in the field, we have managed to shape a vast network of headowners, vessel operators and charterers with whom we keep direct contact, thus allowing us to get timely and reliable information about both cargoes and tonnages which we deal with.



Our Services

Fixing

In fixing with us, shipowners and charterers can rest-assured that counter-party assessment is always done with due diligence.

Nor vessels nor cargoes are re-circulated via other brokers. We do only work with direct cargoes and tonnages.

Even when freight guidance might not be requested by our principals, we will always attempt to put our standpoint on the table for shipowners and charterers to consider it for their own convenience.

Principals can always expect brokerĀ“s homework is done with professional business assessment behind, in terms of running accurate voyage estimates together with duly C/P terms analysis, while backed with updated D/As support for each loading-discharging ports, draught and port restrictions, or any other sensitive information previously exchanged with port-agents, taking into account permissible intakes, loadlines -ECAs- INAs zones, and many other key operational matters in mind at the time to give our principals freight guidance for each specific voyage/trade.

Post fixing

24/7 operational support to make sure that terms agreed in the fixture can be met timely, according to RECAP and the governing Charter-Party (C/P).

When so required by our principals, we can also provide SOF and LAYTIME assessment for each voyage to support shipowners and charterers with accurate and timely demurrage and despatch calculations.










Contact us

Ariel Agostino
E-mail:  chartering@westlinebrokers.com
Skype: ariel_agostino
Mobile:
+54911-6260-0990