Crew changes, provisions, cash to master, medical visits, spare parts, launch services. You juggle all of it for every vessel in port, and every task has a deadline tied to the vessel’s sailing time. Base tracks every husbandry task per port call, ties costs to the PDA, and gives your principals a clear record of what was delivered and what it cost.
What changes when you stop managing husbandry tasks in email and spreadsheets.
port call jobs managed on Base
charge lines tracked across the platform
currencies supported for cash advances
in port call charges tracked
It works until a principal asks for a breakdown of last month\’s husbandry spend across all their port calls. In Base, that report takes 30 seconds because every task already has a cost attached to a port call.
That is exactly why you need a record. Transport, hotels, immigration, sign-on/sign-off, medical. Base tracks each piece per crew member per port call. Ship agents running dozens of crew changes a month use this daily.
Base IS your port agency management system. Husbandry tasks are part of the port call workflow, not a separate module. Port ops, billing, compliance, and husbandry all share the same data.
Bring a recent port call with crew changes, provisions, and cash advances. We will build it in Base together so you can see how every task connects to the PDA, how vendor invoices attach to charge lines, and how the FDA closes when the last receipt clears.
“We stopped losing receipts. Every cash advance now has a photo of the receipt attached before the vessel sails. Our month-end reconciliation went from three days to same-day.”
– Husbandry Coordinator, Ship agency, US Gulf
Ship agents who manage husbandry in Base typically close their FDAs 40% faster within the first quarter because every task already has a cost record attached.
Offshore supply vessel husbandry compresses the full port call into a twelve-hour window between rig trips. For the OSV-specific husbandry workflow, see our Offshore Supply Vessel Port Call Guide.