Lay time calculation
Just send to Smartchart:
1.Please calculate lay time for
2.Attach Fixture recap, rider, addendums, charter party pro forma,Bs/l,SOF
3 Write any additional information handwritten remarks of SOF, additional verbal agreement, non standard situations decisions, or any other instructions which aren’t mentioned in attached documents*
4.Get result if any doubt Smartchart will ask you
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Please instruct your agents/crew prepare all docs with below mentioned quality or provide you with word/text duplicate
A. Ideal (best option)
• Native PDF (exported from Word/Excel/Docs), all fonts embedded, text selectable.
• OCR/text language:English; unified time format HH:MM (24h).
• For SOF: one line per event in the format
DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM–HH:MM — REASON (ALL CAPS, English reason code)
B. Acceptable (scan), if a native PDF is not available
• 300–400 dpi minimum (color or grayscale; not fax-200 dpi).
• High contrast: black text on white, no gray background.
• No skew (tilt ≤ 1°), no edge cropping, no 90° rotations.
• No stamps/signatures over text lines; place stamps in the margin.
• Font size ≥ 10 pt, machine-typed only, ENGLISH (no handwriting in key fields).
• Artifact-free compression (avoid heavy JPEG; prefer PNG/TIFF G4).
• One document per file; pages in sequence