How to Protect Your P&L: Five IMOS Capabilities for a Volatile Market in International Shipping News 18/04/2026 When a crisis reprices every assumption in your book simultaneously, the operators who recover fastest are the ones who know exactly where to look and what to do about it. When markets move faster than your voyage estimates, P&L visibility breaks down and the cost of that gap compounds quickly. Fuel costs spike, freight rates reprice daily, insurance premiums surge, and the routing decisions your team makes under pressure can meanthe difference of seven figures on a single voyage. The good news: if you are running IMOS, you already have the tools to stay in control. Five capabilities in particular are designed exactly for conditions like these. I have worked with hundreds of client teams through major disruptions over the years, and the value of these tools is significant. Here is a look at these five strategies and how to activate these capabilities in IMOS. 1. Reframe your voyage estimates How do you keep voyage estimates in sync with market rates when bunker prices are moving daily? Most voyage estimates are built on point-in-time inventory assumptions. In a stable market, that is fine. In a market where freight rates and bunker prices are drastically moving daily, it means your estimated P&L could be greatly impacted the moment conditions shift. Within the IMOS Trading & Risk module, users can set a configuration that connects Voyage Estimates directly to live trade route and bunker symbol pricing. Instead of basing estimates on the current inventory on the vessel, your estimates pull in current live market rates to factor into your estimates. The result is an estimate that reflects what the market is actually doing. For teams managing reroutings, alternative bunkering ports, or voyages that were priced pre-crisis, this is the difference between flying blind and having a real-time picture of where your margins actually stand. My advice: Incorporate market-based pricing into your voyage estimates. Once enabling the configuration, having real-time market visibility at the point of estimation gives you a sharper lens on every evaluation. 2. Build systematic visibility across your exposed fleet How do you identify fleet-wide P&L exposure without reviewing every voyage manually? When you are managing 50, 100, or 300 vessels, you cannot manually review every voyage for Gulf exposure. You need the system to surface the risk for you. The Tasks & Alerts engine in IMOS allows you to configure automated rules across vessels, voyages, estimates, and port calls. In the current environment, there are four alert types I have been recommending to every team I work with: Itinerary-level alerts: Flag any vessel with an active voyage that includes an AG/Persian Gulf port in its itinerary to get instant visibility into your exposed fleet Estimate-level alerts: Warn chartering teams when a new estimate includes load/discharge ports in the affected zones Voyage-level alerts: Trigger notifications when a voyage’s itinerary changes to include or re-route around Hormuz-dependent ports Insurance/compliance triggers: Alert ops teams when vessels enter designated high-risk areas so war risk insurance adjustments can be made proactively The broader point is that crisis monitoring should not depend on individual vigilance. Tasks & Alerts turns it into a systematic process that scales across your entire fleet. My advice: If you have not configured Tasks