What is laycan?
Laycan is the agreed loading window when a vessel must be ready. Brokers use it to judge whether vessel availability fits cargo dates.
Why it matters in shipbroking
Laycan determines whether a cargo and vessel are commercially aligned in time, not just in route or size.
How LaycanMatch uses it
LaycanMatch extracts laycan dates from broker emails and uses laycan overlap as one of the ranking signals when matching cargo offers to vessel positions or vessel offers to cargo requirements.