Shipping data newcomer Shipfix has seen business snowball during Covid-19 lockdowns as chartering operations shift further into the cloud and working from home increases.

Launched at the end of 2019 by technology entrepreneurs Antoine Grisay and Serge Alleyne, the platform aggregates bulker cargo and vessel information to help shipbrokers deal with their daily email overload.

Chief commercial officer Grisay told TradeWinds that things picked up after the initial shock of lockdowns.