Why STM.
The STM difference. What the owner gains.
Experience is measured in voyages. What sets STM apart is how that experience is put to work: with a commercial eye on every decision, and no interest other than the owner’s.
For an owner, that means a vessel run as an earning asset, not simply kept moving. Costs are challenged before they are paid. Every voyage closes with a clear account of what it earned and where the margin went.
The owner gains what matters most: the time to focus on the strategy of the fleet, while the daily decisions rest with a team that has made them thousands of times.
Close to the vessel.Close to the owner.
Since 2007, STM has combined hands-on operational knowledge with a commercial understanding of the markets our clients trade in. The figures below reflect that work, voyage after voyage.
A considered handover.
When a vessel joins STM, we plan the transition together with the owner, from contracts and certificates to ongoing charter commitments, so that operations continue without interruption.
20'000+Voyages executed
40'000+Port calls
300+Terminals we know first-hand
12'000+Demurrage claims handled
Two decades of commercial ship management, measured in the work itself.
Six disciplines. Two principles.
A commercial view of every voyage.
STM grew up alongside the commodity markets, and it shows in how we run a ship. We read each voyage the way an owner does: as earnings, costs and risk.
Whether to slow steam or make speed, where and when to stem bunkers, how to document a delay at the terminal so the laytime calculation reflects what really happened: these are commercial decisions before they are operational ones. We treat them that way, from fixture to final statement of account.
No interest but yours.
We hold no stakes in vessels, suppliers or service providers, and no arrangement that would make one option more attractive to us than another.
When we select a bunker supplier, a surveyor or a charterer, we compare the options, explain our reasoning and leave the final call with the owner. Advice is only as good as the interests behind it. Ours has one.