Matthew CostelloJul 9, 2026

Mastering the Statement of Fact Parser 🚢

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Mastering the Statement of Fact Parser 🚢

Matthew Costello

Learn how to use Voyager's Statement of Fact parser to efficiently extract, validate, and manage complex shipping data. This guide covers bulk uploads, document filtering, and integrating validated data directly into your laytime calculations.

Mastering the Statement of Fact Parser 🚢

Matthew Costello

Learn how to use Voyager's Statement of Fact parser to efficiently extract, validate, and manage complex shipping data. This guide covers bulk uploads, document filtering, and integrating validated data directly into your laytime calculations.

Chapters

00:00

Introduction

Introduction to the Voyager statement of fact parser and its capabilities.

00:27

Uploading and Parsing

00:54

Reviewing Parsed Data

02:39

Advanced Document Filtering

04:49

Laytime Calculator Integration

06:00

Data Verification

Transcript

00:01

Welcome back to Voyager.

00:03

This is going to be a very brief 5 minute overview, deep dive into our statement of fact parser, which is one of the key features of the platform.

00:11

Keep in mind that our Statement of fact parser works across any commodity type, any format that you can potentially think of, and even helps you narrow down statement of facts that may be embedded within very large broader documents.

00:27

There are a couple of areas where statement effects can be uploaded.

00:30

One of them is through a, dedicated SOF parser folder.

00:35

Here you can bulk, upload multiple SOFs, check and validate them.

00:41

This example is used when you have a different system that may be providing the SOFs, and then the demurrage analysts may be selecting those SOFs into the claim.

00:51

And we'll show you how that works in a sec.

00:52

But this is a good place to start.

00:54

what we can do now is let's take a look at an actual sof.

00:57

We've just got an example of a wet bulk SOF here.

01:00

So we're going to click on the statement of fact and you'll notice a couple of things about this document.

01:06

first of all, it's a typical disorganized format.

01:10

everything that you see in green.

01:12

The system has a very high confidence that it has read correctly.

01:16

If it is blank, for example, in this case I have unselected it.

01:20

If it means that it's not sure.

01:22

If you want to add in a blank item, you can simply select it and it will show up any information that it has read and then you can edit it yourself.

01:31

All of these fields are edited.

01:33

You can tag documents as well.

01:37

So this is a very simple example.

01:39

now what you can also do here, let's say you had multiple cargoes loading, at the same time and you wanted to tag this specific line which was specifically for cargo.

01:50

You could call this, cyclo and create a tag right here.

01:56

You can also add comments which can pull up on your statement of fact calculations later.

02:03

A couple of other features that are important to show here.

02:06

you can filter out pages.

02:08

So for example, this is a one page document, but if you only want to look at pages two or three, you can do that here.

02:14

You can also set up your precision levels and you can also make bulk updates.

02:20

So for whatever reason, the year is wrong on the files.

02:24

You can quickly come in here and update the year to 2025.

02:28

However, we expect that you won't be using this very, frequently.

02:32

The accuracy on the parser is well above 90% and well into the high 90s for liquid bulk.

02:39

Let's take an example of perhaps a more interesting one.

02:42

we see quite a lot of complicated ones in the drywall sector.

02:48

Let's take a look at this one.

02:54

This is a classic example of what you may actually receive as a Demerge analyst.

02:59

There are a huge number of files.

03:01

We have notice of readiness tendered and you'll notice that things are popping up in green.

03:05

So, so the system will actually try to read the whole document.

03:09

and then especially if it's timestamp events, so there might be an nor event in a document, it will try to pull that out.

03:16

When you take a look at the cards themselves, you'll notice that it's picked up on all different notice of readinesses.

03:21

And it looks like in this case, nor has been tendered multiple times.

03:25

If you ever want to find the event on the document, you can just use this little magnifying glass and it'll take you to exactly where that is.

03:33

If you do not want this to be included, for example, this is a misread.

03:37

We can disclude this.

03:39

Or if we don't want to include this, we can just unclick.

03:42

There is a much quicker way to do it as well.

03:44

Let's say we scroll down and we find that the statement of fact is actually on one specific page.

03:51

So in this case it looks like it's down on page 32 and 33.

03:57

So what I can do here is I can say I just want to look at pages 32 and 33.

04:05

So I want you to completely ignore the rest.

04:07

What that will now do is that will narrow down and my one card that I have here at the top has been completely ignored.

04:17

So now I have very, very quickly narrowed down all my events.

04:20

I've got a much, much more clean document and I may even choose that I actually don't need all of those nor retended and I can unclick them if I don't want them.

04:29

Everything that you save in this section will follow through to your late time calculator.

04:36

What I can also do is I can show any errors.

04:38

So for example, if the system is unsure, it will highlight these here and then from here I can save it and then start running it in the late time calculation.

04:49

The second area where I will use the statement of factor is in the claims themselves.

04:54

So within the late time calculation, let's pick, one of the claims that we have here.

05:00

Within this environment, you'll also have the late time calculator.

05:03

Now if You've watched our earlier videos.

05:06

You remember that by clicking on the validate document, it will take you directly to the statement of fact.

05:13

In this case we have a multi batch document.

05:15

We can do a quick zoom in and it will take us directly to this statement of fact here.

05:20

Now one of the key things to remember here is that if you already have a statement of fact uploaded and validated, you can use it in the claim.

05:27

So let's go to example.

05:28

To this claim, let's say I want to add a port call.

05:32

When I add a port call, it'll ask me to pick from an already existing sof.

05:37

So maybe I have an SOF in here for Rotterdam.

05:40

I want to check that it's the right one and I say, yep, okay, that is in fact the right SOF for this thing.

05:47

I'm going to go ahead and just include this and what it will do is it will fully import my clean statement of fact into the late time calculation so I can immediately start work on my late time calculation.

06:00

Whenever your statement of fact has been validated and you show it, and it's showing up in this, what we call, a clean format.

06:08

You can also always highlight over the event to see what the original document was.

06:14

So let's take a look at this one.

06:16

For example, we have the discharge docs and if we go to the actual calculation itself, we can hover over the event and the original details of that document will show up.

06:34

So if there's any confusion about how Voyager has translated, you can come in here and see exactly what that was.

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