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Practical tools for shippers, forwarders and hauliers, built on the same maritime work as the brief.

Beta3D load planner
Stuffing Desk

Plan a container or truck load in 3D before it reaches the dock, and send the loading instruction to the warehouse.

  • Sea containers from 20' to 45' HC, reefers, open tops and flat racks, plus vans, rigid trucks, semi-trailers and road trains.
  • Import a packing list from Excel or CSV, or paste it. Mixed loads, one colour per reference.
  • Product library with EAN codes and units per pack, saved on your device and exportable to Excel.
  • VGM, payload and front to rear weight distribution checked against the CTU Code.
  • PDF loading instruction with 3D view, plan and sections. Share any setup with a link.
  • English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic.
Open the Stuffing Desk→
BetaLearning tool
Commodity Atlas

Learn how a commodity travels from origin to market, in five short lessons: the route, who carries the risk, the documents, the duties and what can go wrong.

  • 11 commodities, from coffee and spices to cashew, sesame, rice, sugar and frozen shrimp. 28 origins, 16 markets.
  • The documents each stage needs, who issues them and how long they take.
  • FOB or CIF: where the risk passes and who pays each step.
  • HS code, EU duty and preference scheme, import VAT, marine insurance and seasonality.
  • Sea route on a 3D globe through the usual lanes and chokepoints, with distance and days at sea.
  • A glossary of the terms, from Incoterms to general average. English and French. Share any route with a link.
Open the Commodity Atlas→
Loading guidesEN · FR · DE · IT

Answers to the most common loading questions, each with its 3D plan.

Also in Français, Deutsch and Italiano.

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Games

Price the Strait, a crude desk terminal with a 3D map: trade cargoes and Brent futures through the Hormuz crisis, from the record of the Hormuz Shipping Brief or through the next seven months, with the carry strategy from Finding Alphas. Master the Flow, a 3D learning game: the supply chain after the MIT MicroMasters, then the maths, machine learning and robotics behind the flows (private beta, access code). Navigate the Strait: steer a container ship through a mined strait.

Play Price the Strait→ Play Master the Flow→ Play Navigate the Strait→
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