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Commodities at Sea

Data driven intelligence on real time commodity movements at sea with actionable insights to support effective trading strategies

Elevate your commodity market analysis with Commodities at Sea, our industry-leading service that helps traders and analysts, investors and portfolio managers, charterers, and fleet operators to make winning decisions through our actionable insight into the physical and financial markets and the freight industry that help drive the global economy.

Commodities at Sea gives you superior transparency into market movements– with near real-time commodity visibility into supply and demand through the waterborne flows of major traded liquid and dry bulk commodities and through sophisticated fleet metrics.

Commodities at Sea can also help you to answer questions such as:

  • How are companies, trade flows and trade relationships responding to major events such as the Russia-Ukraine war and sanctions, China Covid-19-driven lockdowns and congestion, weather events, accidents, and more?
  • How and where is trade actually changing, and by how much?
  • Which national or sector economics or companies will be impacted by these shifts?

Enjoy the best market insights – with Commodities at Sea – backed by advanced analytics, with access to our market-leading researchers, APIs and query tools, analytics dashboards and live vessel tracking.

Discover how we can help and schedule a free demo today!

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Crude Oil & Refined Products

We cover all the major liquid bulk commodities traded globally – from crude oil and condensates to diesel and gasoil, fuel oil, gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha, LPG and NGLs – and pride ourselves on providing visibility into more unique grades of shipped crude oil and condensates than any other information provider can offer.

We even cover hard to see corners of the market from Iran and Venezuela to Floating Storage and Ship-to-Ship (STS) Transfers.

Refiners, traders, oil and gas producers, distributors and investors use Commodities at Sea’s Liquid Bulk services to truly understand supply and demand dynamics in these markets – and better support netback calculations, competitive intelligence, procurement and sales, investment planning and more.

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Coal, Iron Ore & Other Bulk

We cover the most important dry bulk commodities in the world – from thermal and metallurgical coal and iron ore to bauxite, copper concentrates, nickel ore and more – and pride ourselves on providing more complete, more accurate commodity flow data  than any other information provider can offer, thanks to our expert team of researchers who are drawn from the ranks of commodity traders and analysts at some of the world’s most successful companies.

Miners, traders, utilities, refiners, mill operators and investors use Commodities at Sea’s Dry Bulk service to truly understand supply and demand dynamics in these markets – and better support netback calculations, competitive intelligence, procurement and sales, investment planning and more.

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Tanker Metrics

We offer the most sophisticated tanker fleet metrics in the industry – through Tankers at Sea. This analytics module is part of our Commodities at Sea service and provides our subscribers with unparalleled insight into a wide range of fleet metrics – from route capacity deployments and laden-ballast trends to congestion, ton day, fleet age, speed, scrubber analysis and more.

Charterers, fleet operators, FFA traders and investors around the world can now understand key metrics of fleet performance in a way that is unmatched anywhere in the market.

Tankers at Sea covers:

  • Dirty tankers: Panamax, Aframax, Suezmax, VLCC
  • Clean tankers: MR, L1 and L2
  • Gas carriers: Small, Handysize, Medium, Large and Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGCs)
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Bulker Metrics

We offer the most sophisticated bulker fleet metrics in the industry – through Bulkers at Sea. This analytics module is part of our Commodities at Sea service and provides our subscribers with unparalleled insight into a wide range of fleet metrics – from route capacity deployments and laden-ballast trends to congestion, ton day, fleet age, speed, scrubber analysis and more.

Charterers, fleet operators, FFA traders and investors around the world can now understand key metrics of fleet performance in a way that is unmatched anywhere in the market.

Bulkers at Sea covers:

  • Handysize including Small and Large Handy
  • Supramax including Handymax, Supramax, Ultramax
  • Panamax including Kamsarmax, Post Panamax
  • Capesize including Mini Cape, Newcastlemax, Very Large Ore Carriers (VLOCs)
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Agri bulk

We cover the major agri commodity trading sectors in the world – from corn and wheat to soybeans and soybean meal and from sugar and barley to canola, rice and more – and pride ourselves on providing more complete, more accurate commodity flows than any other information provider can offer, thanks to our expert team of researchers who are drawn from the ranks of traders and analysts at some of the world’s most successful companies.

Trading houses, vertically integrated food and grain handling companies, co-ops, processors, export elevator operators, ocean carriers and investors can use Commodities at Sea’s Agri Bulk visibility to truly understand supply and demand dynamics in these markets – and better support competitive intelligence, procurement and sales, investment planning and more.

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