Shipping Market Insights
Navigating short-term decisions on commodity flows,
freight, and bunker fuel.
Commodity Supply Chain Visibility & Insights
Understanding shifts in trade, commodity supply, and freight capacity is crucial for navigating price outlooks, while changes in bunker fuel and freight rates significantly influence operational costs. Commodity and freight traders, investors, fleet operators, governments, and various stakeholders in global commodity value chains need clear insights to capitalise on opportunities and risks.
Our Shipping Insights portfolio delivers comprehensive insights into commodity movements, supply and trade trends, fleet dynamics and rate forecasts, empowering decision-makers with research, news, analytical tools, APIs and more. Designed to support short-term decision-making needs, S&P Global Commodity Insights is your go-to source for data services that illuminate the impacts of commodity and fleet movements on operational costs and market opportunities.
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 and analytics package in the industry, we offer you a 360-degree view of market dynamics. 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 3000 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 insights from brokers, shipowners, and charterers. It delivers daily price assessments, fundamental analysis affecting freight prices, and over 250 independent freight rate updates, along with detailed freight news and fixture analyses.
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Freight Market Outlook Service
The Freight Market Outlook Service utilizes proprietary oil and trade flow data from the World Oil Market Forecast, to develop a monthly 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 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 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 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 Ship Tracking
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Market Intelligence Network (MINT)
This tool provides in-depth visibility into vessel and fleet data 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 analytics on trade flow 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 industry.
Data Transparency & Granularity
We offer an unmatched level of depth and transparency in data.
Objective Market Insights
Leveraging data-driven analysis to provide unbiased perspectives on market trends and opportunities.
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