Shipping and Commodity Flows Market Insights
Navigating short-term decisions on commodity flows, freight rates, and bunker fuel.
Navigate Shipping Markets with a Clear View of What’s Moving Trade, Freights and Fleet Dynamics
Shipping & Commodity Flows Market Insights is a comprehensive intelligence solution that brings together commodity flows, freight market analysis, bunker fuel insights, vessel tracking, and market forecasts to help you anticipate change and make more confident decisions across global shipping markets.
It helps you move beyond market headlines by connecting commodity movements, fleet activity, and freight market developments into a clear view of what is happening now and what could happen next. Allowing you to identify risks, uncover opportunities, and stay ahead of market shifts.
Whether you're evaluating freight exposure, tracking commodity movements, planning fleet utilization, or assessing future market conditions, this solution provides the visibility and insight needed to turn market complexity into commercial advantage.
Who could benefit from Shipping and Commodity Flows Market Data?
Commodity Traders
Changes in trade flows, export availability, shipping economics, and vessel movements can create or eliminate arbitrage opportunities overnight. This solution helps commodity traders track cargo movements, understand emerging supply-demand trends, assess delivered costs, and identify market opportunities before they become widely visible.
Freight Traders
Profitable freight trading depends on understanding the factors driving vessel demand, fleet supply, and freight market sentiment. Shipping and Commodity Flows Market Insights provides forward-looking freight market analysis, vessel utilization trends, and market forecasts that help traders assess market direction, manage exposure, and identify opportunities across shipping sectors.
Shipowners
Fleet deployment and chartering decisions can have a significant impact on vessel earnings and asset performance. This comprehensive solution helps shipowners understand changing trade patterns, monitor fleet dynamics, anticipate shifts in freight demand, and make more informed commercial and strategic decisions across their portfolios.
Bunker Fuel Traders
Bunker markets are influenced by shipping activity, regional fuel supply, regulation, and changing fuel preferences. Shipping and Commodity Flows Market Insights helps bunker fuel traders understand demand drivers, monitor vessel activity, track market developments, and identify emerging opportunities across conventional and alternative marine fuels.
Cross Commodity & Fleet Coverage
- Energy (Liquid) – Crude oil (+500 unique grades), transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, jet fuel, etc.), LPG and NGLs, ammonia, asphalt/bitumen, blending components, ethane, naphtha, methanol, ammonia, etc.
- Energy (Dry) – Thermal coal and cokes
- Industrial Raw Materials, Minerals & Nutrients – Iron ore/metallurgical coal and steel products, bauxite/alumina and aluminum, copper and similar ores/concentrates, building materials, forest products, fertilizers, etc.
- Food and Feed: Soybeans, Corn/Maize, Wheat, Barley, Sorghum, Soybean Meal, Sugar, etc.
- Bunker fuels
- All vessel types with a strong focus on bulkers and tankers
Our Impact, by the Numbers
Product Features
With the most comprehensive data analytics in shipping industry package, we offer you a 360-degree view of shipping market trends. By consolidating and detailing critical information on routes, rates, vessel capacity, fuel costs, fuel availability and freight supply and demand.
Dry Freight
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Dry Bulk Freight Rate Forecast
Get analytics based, impartial freight market insights to navigate maritime volatility. Developed in partnership with the Baltic Exchange. Leveraging over 3,000 data points and deep market knowledge, our model connects macroeconomic factors to freight rates using machine learning. Clients receive weekly and monthly updates for up to three years, aiding in strategic decision-making.
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Dry Freight Wire
A comprehensive, unbiased evaluation of the dry freight market, combining shipping insights from brokers, shipowners, and charterers. It delivers daily price assessments, fundamental analysis affecting freight ratesprices, and over 250 independent freight rate updates, along with detailed freight shipping news and fixture analyses.
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Freight Market Outlook Service
The Freight Market Insights Outlook Service utilizes proprietary oil and trade flows data from the World Oil Market Forecast, to develop a monthly shipping market report and forecast of tanker ton-mile demand and vessel demand in the key tanker size sectors. The service also provides access to our transportation analysts to address client questions and a database of both historic and forecast tanker shipping industry statistics.
Global Tanker
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Dirty Tankerwire
Stay ahead in the dirty tanker market with our comprehensive daily updates. This service equips you with crucial information to pinpoint opportunities and mitigate risks.
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Clean Tankerwire
Clean Tankerwire brings you the latest in tanker freight rates and fixture rates, giving you a full view of the most important developments, so you can effectively analyze the tanker market, identify opportunities, and manage risk.
Bunker Fuel
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Bunkerwire
Offers a daily snapshot of the global bunker fuel markets, featuring the latest prices for major ports and key market shipping market insights. With Platts price assessments for over 80+ major ports, crucial news, and feedstock data -it's essential for high-volume negotiations. Our global team ensures timely updates on end-of-day prices, regional analyses, and transparent benchmark assessments, including bids, offers, and trades.
Live Vessel Tracking
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Market Intelligence Network (MINT)
This tool provides in-depth visibility into vessel and fleet analyticsdata all delivered through a user-friendly interface. Optimize route planning, enhance cargo management, and streamline operational efficiency. Its unique configuration also makes it the ideal bunker fuel sales intelligence tool that can support market entry planning and market share analysis.
Trade Flows & Fleet Analytics
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Commodities at Sea (CAS)
A high frequency market intelligence service that provides visibility into commodity supply, trade activities, trade relationships, and fleet analytics. CAS reports the cargo volumes and voyage details for waterborne globally traded commodities. It also provides detailed shipping data analysisanalytics on trade flows trends and fleet metrics.
Data & Distribution
Get the edge in today’s global markets with our Essential Intelligence® delivered through the providers and platforms which suit you.
API Solutions
Cloud
Data Feed
Desktop & Mobile
Why Choose Us?
Expertise & Reputation
We have a global team of experts with years of experience in the shipping industry.
Data Transparency & Granularity
We offer an unmatched level of depth and transparency in shipping data.
Objective Shipping Market Insights
Leveraging data-drivenshipping data analysis to provide unbiased perspectives on shipping market trends and opportunities.
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