Over the past two months, we’ve continued expanding BargeOS across commercial planning, voyage execution, invoicing, fleet management, and reporting. These releases introduce new contract and tariff tools, more actionable shipment and equipment planning, expanded Trip Dashboard workflows, and greater visibility into the operational and financial details behind each voyage.
Highlights
Expanded Contract & Rate Management: Added a dedicated contract clause library, more complete tariff escalation and rate import workflows, purchase and sale freight contracts, spot contract improvements, vessel nominations, and more flexible contract configuration.
Smarter Shipment & Equipment Planning: Connected shipment requests more closely to contracts, introduced bulk and placement planning workflows, improved equipment recommendations, and added more flexible tools for managing capacity and freight opportunities.
Faster Voyage Execution: Expanded Trip Dashboard actions for releasing barges, assigning destinations and contracts, reconsigning voyages, logging events, and managing empty returns directly from operational workflows.
Greater Fleet & Operational Visibility: Added Fleet Events, richer Deck Log context, improved asset tracking, cargo and contract change history, integration monitoring, and more configurable operational views.
More Accurate Costing & Billing: Improved voyage cost estimates, freight pricing, invoice corrections and credits, billable voyage events, fuel matching, and invoice review workflows.
Improved Reporting & Reliability: Expanded voyage and timing reporting while strengthening inbound data processing, routing, integrations, tracking, and day-to-day platform performance.
Contract clauses can now be managed from a dedicated library rather than only within individual contracts.
Users can search, create, edit, delete, copy, and review complete clause text from one location, making commonly used commercial terms easier to maintain and reuse.
Tariff workflows moved closer to end-to-end rate management.
Teams can now import rates onto existing contracts, collect required escalation inputs, preview updated rates, and submit final changes after review. Rate imports also better support pricing tied to barge capacity.
Contract rate management was further improved with a more scalable rate grid, a refreshed towing tariff experience, and configurable contract forms that can show or hide sections based on company preferences.
Voyages can now carry both a purchase and a sale freight contract, with each available directly from the voyage details header.
Freight contracts also gained support for purchase-versus-sale designation, independent demurrage escalation formulas, and simpler weekly placement calendars.
The Fleet Events workspace gives operations teams a centralized way to review and manage reported fleet activity.
Users can filter and page through events, expand records for additional detail, and—when authorized—move events to another eligible voyage or delete incorrect events.
Fleet Management itself also received updated navigation and a cleaner landing experience to make asset activity easier to access.
Authorized users can now manage billable voyage events from creation through correction.
Billable events can be added, edited, deleted, and connected to reported voyage activity, giving teams greater control over miscellaneous costs that ultimately flow into pro-forma and billing workflows.
Integration issues are now easier to identify and resolve.
Teams can review integration history at the voyage level, browse company-wide errors, see plain-language explanations of what went wrong and what action may be required, and resend failed updates.
Integration views also surface how many voyages require attention while keeping sensitive credentials hidden.
Cargo planning and billing now support Long Tons and Bushels alongside Short Tons, with conversions carried consistently through contracts, planning, Deck Log, and billing workflows.
Shipment requests are now more closely connected to the contracts and voyages that support them.
Supply-contract information can populate shipment requests automatically, and requests can be grouped by key locations. Teams can also bulk-plan shipments from supply contracts rather than creating each order individually.
Barge placement can be requested directly against freight contracts and shipment signals, creating the placeholder voyages needed to track future commitments.
Inbound placement requests can also be matched to existing trips—including contract placeholder voyages—instead of creating duplicate voyages.
Equipment recommendations now account for more of the real-world factors that determine whether an asset is actually a good fit.
Improvements include better consideration of reposition timing, current barge location, expected availability, load timing, and applicable long-term contract rates. Stale outcharter flags no longer incorrectly hide available barges, and planners can request spot equipment when standard recommendations are unavailable or too late.
Planning search was also improved to better handle near matches and stale asset or vessel results.
Operations teams can now complete more everyday voyage actions directly from the Trip Dashboard.
New capabilities include:
These enhancements reduce the need to move between workflows during day-to-day voyage execution.
Freight planning now supports scenarios where every voyage detail may not yet be known.
Companies can define regions and use them as load or discharge areas on tariffs. Spot contracts can be edited and marked reusable, while contract settings can simplify which fields users see during setup.
Nominated vessels can also be recorded on supply contracts and used during placement planning, with planning grids able to group information by vessel.
Tow planning now requires less repetitive setup. Selecting a tow can copy draft, temperature, product, and quantity information across its barges.
Capacity plans can also be adjusted without rebuilding the entire plan. Users can reallocate volume across remaining import plans or modify export plans as conditions change.
Deck Log now surfaces more of the information crews and operations teams need during daily work.
Customer, vendor, terminal, product, and asset notes can be displayed where relevant, while order and voyage selection logic was improved to reduce events being recorded against the wrong trip.
Event forms also better identify the correct voyage leg based on location and timing, company-specific procedures can replace generic workflows, and events near midnight display on the appropriate local working date.
Shipment requests now highlight material changes, and change logs are available from cargo planning and contract workflows.
Voyage notes can also be edited and deleted, giving teams more control over the operational record while preserving better visibility into meaningful cargo and contract changes.
Voyage reporting gained additional operational detail, including:
These enhancements provide more context for understanding voyage performance and operational timing.
Asset tracking gained a reusable integration framework that supports additional GPS providers.
Location processing was also refined so stale voyage assignments do not overwrite more current asset positions, and vessels can be searched using IMO or MMSI without hiding relevant voyages.
Voyage planning now provides clearer cost context when comparing contract and carrier options, including underlying rates and additional cost drivers.
Percent-of-tariff freight rates now display as actual dollar values in the Trip Dashboard and contract editor, with billed rates staying aligned when tariff lanes or load ports change.
Voyage cost estimates were also refined so fuel, charter, vendor, idle-time, and stop-related charges remain more consistent between planning and billing.
Invoice correction workflows became more complete over July and August.
Invoice reissuing is now generally available, voided invoices can retain a visible reason, and partial credits allow users to enter a specific credit amount for short pays and see amounts already credited.
Additional safeguards prevent already-credited charges from being credited again and prevent invoices still awaiting verification from being allocated.
Several enhancements make invoice review easier and provide more supporting context.
Updates include:
Fuel purchases can now auto-match against already allocated invoices, while fuel history and snapshots were refined to better reflect actual vessel activity.
Additional improvements addressed excise tax precision, same-day and next-day fuel purchase matching, long pause/resume periods, and other edge cases that could affect voyage cost accuracy.
An optional round-trip workflow can now recognize when a carrier update completes an outbound voyage, close that leg, and start the corresponding return voyage automatically.
Sequential voyage handling was also improved so prior and subsequent legs remain better synchronized when origins, interchange stops, or voyage events change.
Inbound operational communications became more reliable throughout July and August.
Improvements include better placeholder-voyage creation, more consistent lock-delay parsing, fewer split-barge reference collisions, improved extraction visibility during shipment request review, and more reliable cleanup when inbound messages are reprocessed.
Inbound emails are also protected from being processed more than once.
A broad set of fixes improved everyday system performance and usability, including:
These changes reduce friction across frequently used workflows while strengthening overall platform stability.