EU ETS and UK ETS

• Calculate voyage-level exposure to EU and UK emissions trading requirements.
• Model allowance requirements and costs using fuel consumption, emissions factors, voyage scope and prevailing EUA or UKA assumptions.
• Understand the distinction between the regulated entity and the party that ultimately bears the commercial cost under the charterparty.
• Review contractual mechanisms including allowance transfers, emissions surcharges, reconciliations and treatment of off-hire emissions.
• Track regulatory and market developments that may change voyage scope, emissions coverage, allowance exposure or contractual practice.
• Help design auditable calculations that allow users to trace an emissions cost back to the underlying voyage, fuel and activity data.

FuelEU Maritime

• Model vessel compliance balances using the greenhouse-gas intensity of energy consumed on voyages within FuelEU scope.
• Assess the commercial consequences of positive and negative compliance balances, FuelEU penalties and qualifying lower-carbon fuels.
• Evaluate compliance strategies including fuel switching, banking, borrowing and pooling.
• Analyse how charter duration, vessel history, delivery and redelivery dates, previous deficits and penalty multipliers affect owner and charterer exposure.
• Support contractual allocation of FuelEU responsibilities, surcharges, reimbursements and the value of compliance surpluses.
• Ensure that Bunkora captures the documentation and verification requirements needed for alternative fuels to receive the intended compliance benefit.

Scenario planning

• Build scenarios that compare vessel, route, speed, fuel and emissions strategies before a fixture or voyage decision is made.
• Model the sensitivity of voyage results to fuel prices, allowance prices, port delays, weather, consumption, freight rates and alternative-fuel premiums.
• Compare commercial options such as maintaining speed, slow steaming, changing bunker port, using lower-carbon fuel or entering a FuelEU pool.
• Run base, upside and downside scenarios that expose both voyage margin and regulatory risk.
• Translate scenario outputs into clear commercial recommendations for charterers, operators and management teams.
• Help users understand which assumptions have the greatest impact on voyage profitability.

Product and industry collaboration

• Convert real chartering, fuel and compliance workflows into clear product requirements.
• Test Bunkora’s calculations against realistic voyage cases and challenge outputs that do not reflect commercial practice.
• Work closely with product, engineering, fuel, emissions and regulatory specialists.
• Help define the data, controls and audit trails required for commercially and regulatorily defensible calculations.
• Engage with shipowners, operators, brokers, fuel suppliers and industry partners to validate product assumptions.
• Contribute practical insight to product demonstrations, customer discovery, training material and industry discussions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in commercial shipping chartering, vessel operations or voyage management.
• Strong understanding of voyage and time charters, charterparty negotiation and post-fixture execution.
• Demonstrable experience building voyage estimates, voyage P&Ls or time-charter-equivalent calculations.
• Strong knowledge of marine fuel procurement, bunker operations, vessel consumption and fuel-quality considerations.
• Practical understanding of EU ETS maritime requirements and the commercial treatment of emissions allowances.
• Knowledge of the UK ETS maritime regime and its effect on domestic voyages and in-port emissions.
• Working knowledge of FuelEU Maritime, including greenhouse-gas intensity, compliance balances, penalties, banking, borrowing and pooling.
• Ability to model scenarios involving fuel price, carbon price, vessel performance, speed, weather, route and operational delay.
• Understanding of how off-hire, speed and consumption warranties, weather evidence and owner–charterer responsibilities affect fuel and emissions costs.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with confidence using spreadsheets, voyage-estimation systems and data-driven tools.
• Ability to identify unreliable assumptions, incomplete operational data and inconsistencies between contracts, voyage reports and regulatory calculations.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex commercial and regulatory issues simply.
• Comfortable working on-site in a fast-moving product environment and collaborating across commercial, technical and regulatory disciplines.
• Bachelor’s degree in Maritime Studies, Shipping, Business, Economics or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

Desirable Experience

• Experience implementing EU ETS or FuelEU requirements within a shipowner, operator, charterer or ship-management business.
• Exposure to UK ETS maritime onboarding or compliance.
• Experience with alternative-fuel procurement, certification or lifecycle-emissions data.
• Familiarity with weather-routing, vessel-performance and fuel-consumption analysis.
• Experience contributing shipping expertise to software, digitalisation or process-improvement projects.
• Experience working with emissions, voyage-management, bunker-procurement or fleet-performance platforms.

What Success Looks Like

You will help Bunkora build tools that reflect the real commercial decisions faced by charterers and operators.

Your work will make it easier for users to understand the complete voyage result—not only freight and fuel, but also emissions costs, compliance exposure, operational uncertainty and the financial consequences of alternative decisions.