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Voyage Profit & Loss

DirectPort shows a profit & loss overview for your voyages in three places:

  • Per voyage: under the voyage's "Financial" tab, select Combined View and open the "Profit & Loss" accordion.
  • Across voyages: on the Voyages page, switch to the financial view (€ icon, top right). Each voyage is one row, with totals pinned at the bottom of the table.
  • Per period: on the Voyage Insights page, the "Profit & Loss" section sums receivable, payable and result for all voyages in the selected period, with donut charts showing how each side is distributed across cost categories. It follows the filters at the top of the page (period, status, operator, customers, transport providers).

All three are computed live from the voyage's financial items, the same line items you see and manage in the cost sheets. There is no separate bookkeeping behind them: if a financial item changes, the P/L changes with it.

How the numbers are arrived at

FigureMeaning
ReceivableSum of financial items where your customer is the buying party — what you invoice the customer.
PayableSum of financial items where your transport party is the selling party — what the transport will invoice you.
Result (P/L)Receivable minus Payable. Green is profit, red is loss.

A few rules to keep in mind:

  • All amounts are excluding VAT.
  • Cancelled and deleted items are not counted.
  • Planned, approved and billed items all count. The P/L shows where the voyage is expected to end up, not what has been invoiced so far.
  • A P/L result needs three separate parties. If your organisation is itself the customer or the transport provider on a voyage, only the side with a third party is shown (the payable, respectively the receivable) — the other side and the P/L show a dash.

Billed status

Next to each side (and as "Customer billed" / "Transport billed" columns in the table) you'll see whether the underlying items have been marked as billed:

  • No (✗) — no items billed yet, or nothing to bill on that side
  • Partial (half check) — some items billed; the per-voyage view shows the billed amount against the total
  • Yes (✓) — every item billed

An item counts as billed once its status is set to Billed, either by attaching or creating an invoice, or by marking it as billed manually with an external invoice number.

Category breakdown

The per-voyage view also breaks the P/L down by cost category (base freight, gasoil, demurrage, …). Customer and transport variants of the same category are shown on one row, so you can directly compare what you charge against what you pay. The Net column is the margin per category.