ship·data
TRACKING WORLD · DRYBULK FLEET
shipdata.net turns the live movement of the dry-bulk fleet into the decisions a chartering desk actually makes: what a voyage is worth right now, where to send an open ship, which way the market is turning, what carbon will cost, and who controls the tonnage. The ships are the data. The decision is the product.
Every card below is a question a desk answers under time pressure. shipdata.net answers each one from the live fleet, on the same 15-minute heartbeat.
Give a lane and a size band and it returns a daily-hire rate computed live from the fleet: the pressure read for that band and the route rate for that load and discharge. A number to fix against, not last week's survey.
Point it at a load port and a laycan and it ranks the tonnage that can actually make it, then works the other way to show an open ship the region that is tightening, so you position before the market moves.
The fixture list tells you where the market was. The fleet tells you where it is going. It watches tonnage tighten or loosen band by band and region by region, so a turn shows up in the supply picture first.
Carbon is a line in the freight math now. It estimates a voyage's emissions from its legs and the ship's consumption profile, then puts a number on the EU-ETS exposure and the CII trajectory before you commit.
A rate is set by who else is chasing the same cargo. It maps the world fleet by operator and owner, so you see which desks control the tonnage in a region and size band before you quote.
A real-time 3D globe of ~20,000 curated bulkers, Capesize to Handysize, colour-coded by state and filterable by segment, band and region. The picture every decision is built on.
The market has read freight off surveys and published benchmarks for decades. shipdata.net measures the same reality a different way: from the ships themselves.
No desk is phoned. No broker is surveyed. Every number is built from the physical fleet, so you can always trace it back to a ship.
Real-time positions, draughts and voyage history for ~20,000 bulk and MPP vessels, from AIS plus a position feed for reach into coastal China, India, Indonesia and West Africa where AIS goes dark. Gaps backfilled, stale records flagged.
A second, independent measurement of the same market the benchmarks describe, built from the ships themselves. Auditable, and independent of the Baltic Exchange. Published by The Freight Report LLC, New York.
The live map and market index are open to anyone, no signup. The best way to understand shipdata.net is to open it and watch the fleet move.