A modern ship currently composes, from the point of view of its intrinsic value, of its maintenance, of its required crew, and general cost of exploitation, a capital which is practically never profitable.
 
The Consignee Agent has a role of service assistance to the ship. He provides, for the needs and well-being of the ship and of its expedition, the operations which the captain or the shipowner do not accomplish themselves.
 
One of the principal responsibilities of the shipping agent is to predict and optimize the call time of the ship of which he is in charge.
 
If you are a consignee agent, exclusive or not, at the arrival of a ship, your priority is to by all means respect the departure time. On this efficacy will generally depend the reconduction of your mandate at the next call.

At the request of the shipowner, or of the captain, the shipping agent, even before the arrival of the ship, must pass the contracts in light of suppling of the ship in fuel, in water, in rations as well as managing the unloading of the waste produced.
 
This type of optimization of services can only be simplified by the use of the internet website www.ship-waste.com.