Using the maritime agent offers clear and tangible benefits for shipping companies. It awards itself in helmsmanship, routes become shorter and time to reach destination more direct; so you save money on fuel and improve the effectiveness of each voyage. The real-time monitoring function tells you about ship performance. Therefore, if anything goes wrong policy can be applied in time and failure risk minimized to the least possible extent. By avoiding unexpected downtime through predictive maintenance, ships will spend more time at sea earning money. Another thing the maritime agent does is improve safety. It is always assessing the environment and ship-board strength. Employing all these benefits, we can see that the maritime agent is a real customer at the market (at which he will probably do well today) to boost efficiency in operation and bottom line for potential customers in future.