Maritime Services for the Modern Shipping Industry: Operations, Demurrage, Post Fixture Claims, Surveys, Inspections & Software
Deep Blue is a specialist maritime services group providing demurrage outsourcing and laytime services, vessel inspections and surveys, commercial management and trading services, and custom maritime software development. Our teams operate from the US, UK, and Dubai and bring together demurrage specialists, a Master Mariner with 28 years' experience, commercial shipping veterans, and software engineers who build tools used in real shipping operations every day.
50+
Years Combined Experience
3
Global Locations (US, UK, Dubai)
600+
Maritime Claims Handled Annually
4
Service Divisions
Maritime Software Development
Deep Blue Labs builds custom maritime software, AI-powered automation tools, and shipping workflow systems developed by engineers embedded within a working shipping services company. Home of DEMURO, our proprietary demurrage management platform, already tested against hundreds of real claims
Demurrage Outsourcing & Laytime Services
Deep Blue Laytime Services provides fully outsourced demurrage and claims management for shipowners, operators, and charterers from initial claim to final settlement. Whether you need end-to-end demurrage outsourcing or targeted support for a specific claim, our expert team handles the complexity, so you don't have to.
Vessel Inspections, Surveys & Vetting
Deep Blue Marine Services delivers vessel inspections, pre-vetting surveys, ISM/ISPS/MLC audits, port captaincy, and P&I investigations across the UK, North America, South America, and Turkey and is led by a Master Mariner with 28 years' experience on tankers, bulk carriers, and gas vessels.
Commercial Management and Trading Services
Deep Blue's commercial management team provides outsourced vessel operations support, commodity trading services, and shipping consulting for operators who need senior expertise without the overhead of a permanent hire. Also active in the Voluntary Carbon Market and EEX EUA Spot markets.
Why Deep Blue?
One firm, four disciplines.
Built from the inside out.
Most maritime service providers specialize in one area. Deep Blue was built to combine four disciplines that shipping companies most commonly need to outsource - laytime and demurrage, marine surveys and inspections, commercial operations, and maritime software - under a single team that understands how they connect. That integration is what makes us different.
The software our Labs team builds is used daily by our laytime and commercial desks.
The commercial insight our team has developed over decades informs every service we offer.
All of this is available to you on a flexible, scalable basis without the overhead of building it in-house.
Transparency & Reporting
Transparency is built into how we work, not bolted on at the end.
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Every Deep Blue client receives granular reporting across their portfolio — tracking recovery rates, time-bar performance, dispute trends, and clause-level outcomes all in a real-time dashboard available 24/7.
Our reports don't just tell you what happened; they tell you why, and what to do differently the next time.
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You'll always know where your claims stand, who is handling them, and what the next step is.
A Trusted Partner
"Deep Blue has been an invaluable partner for our demurrage needs. Their professionalism and extensive knowledge have consistently exceeded expectations. We highly recommend their expertise and dedication to any operation requiring seamless demurrage management."
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— Phil Hughes, Operations Manager, Peregrine Tankers
Dive Into Our Story
Deep Blue was founded by shipping industry veterans with over 50 years of combined experience across tanker and chemical shipping, vessel operations, commodity trading, and maritime software. Our focus is simple: bring expert, flexible, and technology-driven services to the parts of the shipping process that are most in need of modernization.