Shipbroking has always been an art built on a simple foundation: knowing the market, forging trust, and connecting the right people.

There was a time when the market gave brokers a single place to do exactly that.

61 Threadneedle Street, London.

When the Virginia and Baltick Coffee House opened in 1744, it became the undisputed center of gravity. Merchants, captains, and shipowners walked through one door to exchange intelligence and make deals.

Three centuries later, the market is global, immediate and fragmented.

Today, it lives across inboxes, private messages, spreadsheets, and individual memory. The context that matters gets buried thousands of emails ago. Information vanishes between first contact and closing.

Instead of building relationships, the broker is forced to act as human middleware, frantically trying to hold the market together.

We have personally lived this pain.

We built Shipy to fix it.