Coastal-Tanker Turnaround Recovery Leader

The mandate

The coastal logistics head resigned after simultaneous berth queues and inland stockouts showed that vessel programmes, parcel changes, shore-tank availability and terminal maintenance were governed on different clocks. Tankers wait with product needed elsewhere, terminals request last-minute sequence changes and demurrage is explained after the voyage. Commercial urgency is reaching masters and loading officers as informal pressure. A temporary executive must restore one safe coastal supply decision system.

Day 21 is the latest acceptable arrival for an executive who will hold this fixed eight-month coastal-supply seat through permanent recruitment. The opening month joins vessel, berth, shore-tank and parcel truth while protecting the most constrained fuels and regions. Revised nomination and change gates are then exposed to two complete monsoon-and-demand cycles. Once those tests conclude, the executive must remove recurring demurrage causes, return emergency inventory to normal control and have the successor run a live rolling programme.

The board releases the temporary seat after every voyage traces to approved parcel, terminal tank, berth window, inspection, documentation and customer allocation; avoidable waiting and late sequence changes remain inside threshold for eight weeks; and stockout recovery no longer relies on a master or terminal workaround. The successor assumes vessel restrictions, tank outages, demurrage cases, customer priorities, product-quality limits and the next 90-day coastal plan as active decisions.

The interim may resequence qualifying voyages and parcels, allocate coastal capacity, approve spot charter cover up to three months and authorise recovery spend up to ₹8 crore. Permanent route closure, long charter, price or customer-contract change, product-specification exception and capital above delegation require authorised approval. Masters retain navigation and cargo safety, and terminals retain statutory loading and quality authorities.

Fleet acquisition, refinery production strategy, permanent tank expansion, pricing and legal settlement of historic demurrage are outside scope. The leader will preserve evidence and define operational requirements without becoming charter broker or product-quality certifier. The assignment is to recover safe coastal flow through the existing fleet and terminal network.

Why this seat is open

An abrupt departure occurred while berth and inventory failures were already affecting national supply. Marine, terminal and supply planners can optimise their own resources but lack cross-network authority. The board has granted a temporary operating seat to restore decisions before permanent recruitment and capital programmes can mature.

What you will own

• Reconcile all voyages to parcel nomination, shore-tank capacity, berth, inspection, documentation and customer-allocation evidence.
• Decide qualifying voyage sequence, coastal capacity, spot cover and recovery priority within safety and commercial delegation.
• Establish change gates that expose tank, quality, berth, vessel, customer and demurrage consequence before approval.
• Protect masters and loading officers from informal stockout pressure by recording authority and dissent explicitly.
• Chair daily constrained-supply control and weekly cause review across marine, terminal, supply and Finance.
• Close avoidable waiting and demurrage causes without negotiating legal settlements or obscuring terminal responsibility.
• Induct the successor through restrictions, outages, open cases, customer priorities and the rolling 90-day plan.

Candidate qualifications

• Held coastal tanker and terminal logistics authority across a multi-port fuels distribution network.
• Has recovered simultaneous vessel queues and inland stockouts without compromising cargo or navigational safety.
• Understands parcel sequencing, shore tanks, inspection, documentation, berth planning and demurrage operationally.
• Can allocate scarce coastal capacity while preserving product-quality, terminal and master decision boundaries.
• Personally governed monsoon or severe-weather disruption across several Indian coastal terminals.
• Completed a permanent handover after proving stable vessel-to-tank flow through multiple demand cycles, with successor decisions observed onboard and ashore.

Non-negotiables

• Available in Mumbai within three weeks and willing to travel monthly across all eight terminals.
• Brings direct coastal fuels authority; chartering brokerage or terminal planning alone is insufficient.
• Accepts master, terminal, quality, contract, pricing and board approval boundaries.
• Will disclose tanker, terminal, refinery, broker, surveyor and cargo-owner interests before appointment.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a coastal fuels queue you resolved while inland stockouts were escalating.
2. 49 words maximum. Confirm your Mumbai start date and the largest tanker-terminal network you governed.
3. 49 words maximum. Which change gate prevents a late parcel revision becoming a shipboard safety pressure?