Europe · Las Palmas
Ship chandlers serving Las Palmas use Tidal to turn RFQ emails into priced quotes in under 30 minutes, matched to their own catalogue and margin rules. Send us one real RFQ and we will quote it with you on a 30 minute call.
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Tidal is quoting software. Ship chandlers and marine suppliers use it to answer buyer RFQs faster. We do not supply vessels ourselves.
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How it works
What changes for a Las Palmas chandler on the first day with Tidal.
By email, PDF, Excel or a portal export. Tidal reads every line, including vague descriptions and missing codes.
Each line is matched to your own catalogue and item codes, with unclear lines flagged for your team.
Your supplier prices, client tiers and margin rules are applied. You review and approve every line.
Send the quote, turn it into a sales order, then check supplier invoices against it when they arrive.
See it working

Turns buyer RFQs into priced quotes and sales orders from your own catalogue and supplier prices.
See Quote DeskReads supplier invoices from a photo or PDF and checks them against the order before they reach your accounts.
See Invoice CaptureStand SUZ 4, Suntec, 24 to 25 November 2026. Bring an RFQ and see it priced.
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How a Singapore Based Ship Chandler Cut RFQ Response Time From 36 Hours to Under 3
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Las Palmas and the Puerto de la Luz
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria sits on the main shipping lanes between Europe, West Africa and South America, and the Puerto de la Luz has served passing ships for well over a century. Vessels call here to bunker, take on provisions, change crew and carry out repairs, and the port is one of the main bunkering stops in the eastern Atlantic. Offshore rigs and drillships also come in for maintenance between contracts.
For a ship supplier that means a steady stream of short calls by ships that are not from here and will not stay long. Many requests arrive while a vessel is still at sea, with an ETA and a long list of provisions, deck and engine stores. The Canary Islands also have their own tax regime, separate from mainland Spain, which shapes pricing and paperwork. Speed and clarity win the order.
Business in Las Palmas is done in Spanish, with English widely used by agents, chandlers and repair yards dealing with foreign ships. Relationships with agents and owners' representatives count, and many deals rest on years of repeat calls. The working day often runs later than in northern Europe, with a lunch break. WhatsApp and phone are normal for urgent orders. Carnival and the summer holidays change the rhythm.
Columbus stopped in Gran Canaria in 1492 on his first voyage west, and the islands became a staging post for Atlantic crossings. The modern Puerto de la Luz was designed by the engineer Juan León y Castillo, and building began in 1883, when coal steamers needed a reliable stop. British coaling firms helped make it a major fuelling station, a role it kept as ships moved to oil.
Demand comes from bunker calls, container and reefer traffic, fishing fleets, cruise ships in winter and offshore units in for repair. Many vessels are on tight schedules, so buyers want a full quote fast, clear substitutions when an item is not in stock and delivery timed to the bunkering window. Agents often handle several ships at once and favour suppliers who make their job easy.
It starts with a remote 30 minute demo on one of your own RFQs, priced from your own catalogue. Setup takes about a week, uses your catalogue and margin rules, and needs no IT team. India is 5.5 hours ahead of Las Palmas in winter and 4.5 in summer, so our day overlaps your morning, roughly 9am to 1pm, or 2pm in summer.
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Send us one RFQ from Las Palmas
We will quote it with Tidal on a 30 minute call, line by line against your own catalogue, so you can compare it with how long it takes your team today.
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