Chartering Executive (Dry Bulk) practice interview
Dry bulk voyage evaluation, freight negotiation, charter-party terms, market intelligence and fixture handover. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview assesses the commercial and operational judgement needed to fix dry bulk cargoes or vessels. The panel will expect you to connect voyage economics with live market information, negotiate precisely and recognise charter-party terms that can turn an attractive rate into a poor result.
How to prepare
- Practise a voyage calculation covering sea time, port time, bunker consumption, port costs and commissions.
- Prepare a fixture negotiation where your rate or terms changed as new information emerged.
- Review the charter-party clauses that affect laytime, demurrage, cargo handling and voyage risk.
- Think through how you verify market reports on cargoes, tonnage and recent fixtures.
- Prepare to explain how you hand a concluded fixture to operations and claims colleagues.
Common mistakes
- Quoting freight without stating the bunker, time and port-cost assumptions behind it.
- Focusing only on the headline rate while overlooking material charter-party exposure.
- Repeating market rumours without explaining how you checked their reliability.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
6 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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