Origins and features of the Shipfix platform | NLP in shipping technology – News and statistics

May 18, 2026

A Business Technology article published on May 18, 2026, focuses on the origins and capabilities of Shipfix, a platform founded in 2018. According to Veson Nautical’s sources, the shipping and commodity trading industry at the time was dominated by the US-China trade war, IMO emissions targets, oversupply, unstable freight rates, and complex trade flows.

Shipfix was founded not to address these broader macro challenges, but to solve specific fundamental problems in how information moves within the industry. The day-to-day reality for charterers remains the same: critical market signals for cargo, vessels, equipment, etc. are buried in email and distributed across teams, making it impossible to build at scale. To solve this, the company developed specialized natural language processing (NLP) to extract and structure data directly from communications, years before the recent wave of AI technologies.

The platform’s AI has been trained for over seven years and forms the foundation on which everything else is built. NLP reads emails just like humans, but at a scale humans cannot manage. When an email arrives, Shipfix automatically identifies the type of communication, such as a tonnage notice, cargo order, equipment summary, or operational update, before anyone opens the message. Next, NLP extracts the unstructured data. That is, for a freight order, the loading port, unloading range, freight type, laycan, and quantity are extracted. For tonnage circulars, vessel name, open position, open date, and deadweight are extracted. No manual input required.

Once processed, email types, tags, and data flows across Shipfix are searchable, filterable, and actionable. The system identifies ships, voyages, and cargo in messages and automatically tags emails accordingly. For operational emails that recognize ships, Shipfix automatically links them to ships in the directory. For Voyages, these emails are displayed within IMOS Voyage through a native connection to IMOS or your own job board. Users can build on this foundation with their own tags, team routing, and rules.

All tonnage circulars and shipments processed by Shipfix flow into Market Screen, providing a live, deduplicated view of the market. This consolidates cargo and tonnage positions from your inbox and open market positions. Organizations can be filtered by vessel type, open area, laycans, cargo type, etc. Positions across five brokers are displayed once, removing noise and leaving opportunities for your team to act.

Models are improved through a combination of customer feedback and automatic error detection, a continuous improvement process that maintains accuracy as the market evolves. No data leaves the platform for processing elsewhere, and no third-party models are involved. The source concludes that for teams still manually organizing inboxes and re-entering location data, the gap is widening, and the market will continue to gain momentum as long as technology can handle the task.

1. Introduction

Data-driven decisions to grow your business
1. Report description
2. Research methods and AI platforms
3. Data-driven decision making for your business
4. Glossary and specific terms
2. Executive summary

Market performance overview
1. Main findings
2. Market Trends This chapter is only available in the Professional versionprofessional
3. Market overview

Understand the current state and outlook of the market
1. Market Size: Historical Data (2012-2025) and Forecast (2026-2035)
2. Consumption by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
3. Market forecast to 2035
4. Products with the greatest potential for diversification

Find new products to diversify your business
1. Top products to diversify your business
2. best selling products
3. most consumed products
4. Most traded products
5. The most profitable products for export
5. Most promising supplier countries

Choosing the best country to establish a sustainable supply chain
1. Top countries for sourcing products
2. Top producing countries
3. Top exporting countries
4. low cost exporter
6. The most promising overseas market

Choosing the best country to promote exports
1. Top overseas markets where you can export your products
2. Top consumer market
3. unsaturated market
4. Top import markets
5. most profitable market
7. Production

Latest industry trends and insights
1. Production volume and value: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
2. Production by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
8. Import

Largest import supplier country
1. Imports: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
2. Imports by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
3. Import prices by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
9. Export

Biggest export destination
1. Exports: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
2. Exports by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
3. Export prices by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
10. Profile of major producers

The largest producers on the market and their profiles
11. Country Profile

Biggest markets and their profiles

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1. 11.1
  US
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
2. 11.2
  China
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
3. 11.3
  Japan
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
4. 11.4
  Germany
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
5. 11.5
  England
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
6. 11.6
  France
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
7. 11.7
  Brazil
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
8. 11.8
  Italy
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
9. 11.9
  Russian Federation
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
10. 11.10
  India
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
11. 11.11
  Canada
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
12. 11.12
  Australia
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
13. 11.13
  republic of korea
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
14. 11.14
  Spain
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
15. 11.15
  Mexico
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
16. 11.16
  Indonesia
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
17. 11.17
  Netherlands
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
18. 11.18
  turkey
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
19. 11.19
  Saudi Arabia
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
20. 11.20
  Switzerland
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
21. 11.21
  Sweden
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
22. 11.22
  Nigeria
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
23. 11.23
  Poland
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
24. 11.24
  Belgium
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
25. 11.25
  Argentina
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
26. 11.26
  Norway
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
27. 11.27
  Austria
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
28. 11.28
  Thailand
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
29. 11.29
  united arab emirates
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
30. 11.30
  Columbia
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
31. 11.31
  Denmark
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
32. 11.32
  South Africa
  - market size
  - production
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  - export
33. 11.33
  Malaysia
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
34. 11.34
  Israel
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
35. 11.35
  Singapore
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
36. 11.36
  egypt
  - market size
  - production
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  - export
37. 11.37
  Philippines
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
38. 11.38
  Finland
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
39. 11.39
  Chile
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
40. 11.40
  Ireland
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
41. 11.41
  Pakistan
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
42. 11.42
  Greece
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
43. 11.43
  Portugal
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
44. 11.44
  Kazakhstan
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
45. 11.45
  algeria
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
46. 11.46
  czech republic
  - market size
  - production
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  - export
47. 11.47
  qatar
  - market size
  - production
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  - export
48. 11.48
  Peru
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
49. 11.49
  Romania
  - market size
  - production
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  - export
50. 11.50
  Vietnam
  - market size
  - production
  - Imported goods
  - export
list of tables
1. Key findings in 2025
2. Physical Market Size: Historical Data (2012-2025) and Forecast (2026-2035)
3. Market Value: Historical Data (2012-2025) and Forecast (2026-2035)
4. Per capita consumption by country, 2022-2025
5. Physical production by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
6. Physical imports by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
7. Import value, by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
8. Import prices by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
9. Physical exports by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
10. Export value by country (value basis): past data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
11. Export prices by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
List of diagrams
1. Physical Market Size: Historical Data (2012-2025) and Forecast (2026-2035)
2. Market Value: Historical Data (2012-2025) and Forecast (2026-2035)
3. Consumption, by country, 2025
4. Market size forecast until 2035
5. Market value prediction until 2035
6. Market size and growth rate by product
7. Average consumption per person by product
8. Exports and growth by product
9. Export prices and growth rates by product
10. Production volume and growth rate
11. export and growth
12. Export prices and growth
13. Market size and growth
14. consumption per capita
15. import and growth
16. import price
17. Production in the physical sense: historical data (2012-2025) and forecasts (2026-2035)
18. Production value, value basis: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
19. Production, by country, 2025
20. Physical production by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
21. Imports from a physical perspective: historical data (2012-2025) and forecasts (2026-2035)
22. Import value, value basis: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
23. Import volume, physical volume, by country, 2025
24. Physical imports by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
25. Import value, by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
26. Import prices by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
27. Exports from a physical perspective: historical data (2012-2025) and forecasts (2026-2035)
28. Export value (by value): historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
29. Exports (in kind, by country, 2025)
30. Physical exports by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
31. Export value by country (value basis): past data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)
32. Export prices by country: historical data (2012-2025) and forecast (2026-2035)