Evidence-backed comparison of Base Shipping Agency Management and Pelican Port Agency Software across capabilities, integrations, deployment options, confidence and known limitations.
TechSelectAI compares Base Shipping Agency Management and Pelican Port Agency Software using recorded product evidence rather than user-specific recommendation scoring. Base Shipping Agency Management currently has 19 supported, 1 conditional, 5 unknown/not-yet-verified, and 0 not-supported capabilities. Pelican Port Agency Software currently has 14 supported, 1 conditional, 10 unknown/not-yet-verified, and 0 not-supported capabilities. Known-fact confidence is 99% for Base Shipping Agency Management and 99% for Pelican Port Agency Software. Latest recorded review or verification activity across the comparison: Sep 22, 2026.
This summary reflects recorded TechSelectAI evidence only. It is separate from buyer-specific Fit Score, Evidence Confidence, TechSelectAI Verified Reviews and Public Review Intelligence. Unknown means not yet verified, not unsupported.
Shipping-agency platform linking vessel nominations, port-call operations, PDA/FDA, vendor charges, documents, principal collaboration and accounting sync.
Cloud port-agency software with operations, documentation, communication and disbursement-accounting modules.
Different coverage percentages can reflect how much TechSelectAI has researched and verified, not which product is better. “Research pending” means the current evidence set is incomplete; it is not evidence that the product lacks the capability.
Status and confidence reflect recorded evidence. Unknown means not yet verified, not unsupported. In the summary above, TechSelectAI labels this state “research pending”.
| Capability | Base Shipping Agency Management | Pelican Port Agency Software |
|---|---|---|
| Final Disbursement Account (FDA)Disbursement & Tariffs | Supported100% confidenceBase documents converting actual port-call charges into the FDA and closing it after sailing. | Supported100% confidencePelican explicitly generates final disbursement account invoices. |
| Multi-currency charge handlingDisbursement & Tariffs | Supported100% confidenceBase documents support for 15 currencies on every port call. This evidence confirms multi-currency handling but not arbitrary currency coverage beyond the documented set. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Port tariff / rate-card managementDisbursement & Tariffs | Supported100% confidenceBase explicitly documents stored port tariffs, rate cards and contracted principal rates used in PDA preparation. | Supported100% confidencePelican pulls buy/sell rates from configured tariffs for port-call services and fees. |
| Proforma Disbursement Account (PDA)Disbursement & Tariffs | Supported100% confidenceBase builds PDAs from stored port tariffs and contracted principal rates before vessel arrival. | Supported100% confidencePelican disbursement accounting includes pro-forma generation. |
| Document template generationDocumentation & Event Records | Supported100% confidenceBase explicitly generates SOFs, PDAs, FDAs, statements and other job documents from the shared port-call record. | Supported100% confidencePelican generates operational reports including arrival, sailing, purchase-order and other port-call documents. |
| Port-call document repositoryDocumentation & Event Records | Supported100% confidenceBase documents customs forms, pilot slips, SOFs, vendor receipts, cargo manifests and other files attached to the port call they support. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Statement of Facts / port logDocumentation & Event Records | Supported100% confidenceStatement of Facts generation and storage are explicitly documented in the port-call workflow. | Supported100% confidenceStatement of Facts is explicitly generated from port-call data and event logs. |
| Agency invoicing / billingFinance & Vendors | Supported100% confidenceBase documents invoice generation from the port-call record and synchronization of approved financial records to accounting. | Supported100% confidenceFinal DA invoicing and AR/AP synchronization are documented. |
| Job cost / margin / profitability visibilityFinance & Vendors | Supported100% confidenceBase provides a Job Profit Report with revenue, WIP, accruals, cost and profit calculations, plus export to Excel. | Supported100% confidencePelican documents fund requests/receipts and port-call profitability snapshots. |
| Vendor invoice / expense captureFinance & Vendors | Supported100% confidenceBase captures vendor invoices against jobs and allocates vendor-invoice amounts to estimated costs for financial tracking. | Supported100% confidencePelican supports vendor purchase orders and invoice upload for final disbursement rendering. |
| Crew-change coordinationHusbandry & Agency Services | Not Yet Verified0% confidence | Supported100% confidencePelican documents crew and crew-change management. |
| Spares / package / delivery coordinationHusbandry & Agency Services | Not Yet Verified0% confidence | Supported100% confidencePackage and spare management tracks receipts and deliveries to vessels. |
| API / external-system integrationIntegration & Governance | Partially Supported100% confidenceBase documents direct QuickBooks Online and Xero synchronization. The reviewed sources establish accounting integrations, not a universal general-purpose API. | Partially Supported100% confidencePelican documents direct QuickBooks Online integration with two-way AR/AP and general-ledger synchronization; the reviewed sources do not establish a general public API. |
| Alerts / reminders / exception visibilityOperational Workflow | Not Yet Verified0% confidence | Supported100% confidenceDynamic reminders are documented for vessel checklist deadlines. |
| Task / checklist managementOperational Workflow | Not Yet Verified0% confidence | Supported100% confidencePelican documents vessel checklists, to-do templates and port-call task tracking. |
| Workflow templates / repeatable processesOperational Workflow | Supported100% confidenceBase explicitly documents port-call templates mapped to common service types and reusable templates for repetitive agency setup. | Supported99% confidencePelican provides to-do templates and standard/custom port-log item templates; the reviewed sources do not establish a generic workflow designer. |
| ETA / ETD / arrival / sailing status trackingPort Call Lifecycle | Supported99% confidenceBase documents active port-call status and live operational visibility across vessel calls. The reviewed sources do not establish automatic AIS-derived status changes. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Multi-call operational dashboardPort Call Lifecycle | Supported100% confidenceBase shows multiple active calls in an agency dashboard and documents filtering/visibility across calls by port, principal or vessel. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Nomination intake / creationPort Call Lifecycle | Supported100% confidenceThe documented shipping-agency workflow starts when a principal nominates a vessel and the agency opens the corresponding job in Base. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Port-call / job recordPort Call Lifecycle | Supported100% confidenceBase documents one shared port-call record linking operations, charges, documents, vendor activity, approvals and accounting context from nomination through FDA closeout. | Supported100% confidencePelican centers operations around a port-call summary and linked operational modules. |
| Principal / client status sharingPrincipal / Customer Collaboration | Supported100% confidenceBase gives principals scoped guest visibility into their vessels, charges, invoices and approvals. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Principal approvals / charge approval workflowPrincipal / Customer Collaboration | Supported100% confidenceBase documents principals approving, querying or rejecting charge lines and PDAs within scoped guest access. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| AIS / vessel-position data integrationVessel & Port Context | Not Yet Verified0% confidence | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Port / berth / terminal reference dataVessel & Port Context | Supported100% confidenceBase documents port-specific tariff schedules, vendor rosters and berth data as part of multi-port agency operations. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
| Vessel master dataVessel & Port Context | Supported99% confidenceBase documents importing an agency vessel list during setup and using vessel records throughout port-call workflows. The reviewed source does not establish every vessel-master field or external vessel-data service. | Not Yet Verified0% confidence |
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