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We are delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS), one of the world’s largest privately-owned shipping companies headquartered in Singapore. Since the beginning of this collaboration, EPS has achieved significant efficiency gains and measurable cost savings. By centralizing DA management and enabling real-time expense verification, HarborLab’s solution has empowered EPS to […]

In the competitive world of maritime software, Harbor Lab has realized that cutting-edge technology alone will not help you stand out from the crowd, but it is the unparalleled commitment to personalized onboarding, training and client support that does. It’s about building relationships, fostering trust, ensuring that users are listened to, and their business needs […]

Oldendorff Carriers contracts with Harbor Lab to provide global transparency in port transactions and revolutionise disbursement accounting.

Why We Built DEX: Putting DA Attention Where It Counts Every line of every DA gets the same attention, whether it needs it or not. DEX, HarborLab's AI assistant for DA evaluation teams, changes where that attention goes.

How Oldendorff Carriers rebuilt its proforma validation and DA payment workflow Oldendorff Carriers redesigned how it validates proformas and pays DAs, with clearer ownership, earlier discrepancy visibility and more time for cost-focused work.

DEV2 – HarborLab’s software is deployed across the fleet of Oldendorff Carriers Oldendorff Carriers contracts with Harbor Lab to provide global transparency in port transactions and revolutionise disbursement accounting.

Why We Built the Single-Click Port Expenses DA Creator Every port agent knows the feeling. A new appointment arrives. The clock starts. And before anything else can happen, someone has to build the Proforma Disbursement Account from scratch. It means opening tariff documents, usually in the local language of the port, often in formats that bear no resemblance to the ones you used last […]

HarborLab & LMI Launch Disbursement Accounts Training The maritime industry has outsourced DA checking for years. But in doing so, it quietly outsourced something far more critical: expertise. HarborLab Academy is taking the next step in rebuilding that expertise globally through a strategic partnership with Lloyd’s Maritime Institute (LMI) to launch a Disbursement Accounts Training. This collaboration marks an important milestone in […]

How to Control Port Costs When Bunker Prices Spike 80%+ March 12, 2026, | Port Cost Management Port cost management during bunker crisis: Bunker fuel prices have surged to record levels in March 2026, with IFO380 jumping from $456 to $841 per metric ton—an 84% increase. For a 30-vessel fleet, that’s an additional $150M+ in annual costs. But here’s what many ship owners overlook: port […]