Guides
How every part of shipdata.net works - what each page is for and how to use it.
Getting started
An orientation guide to the shipdata.net site: the 3D-globe home page, the two intro pages (/home and /about), the grouped top navigation, the two distinct search boxes, the DBPI ticker, the bunker marquee, and what is free versus members-only.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about shipdata.net - what it is, where the live dry-bulk vessel data comes from, how the DBPI and freight rates are computed, what the tools do, and how access works.
Market & DBPI
An exhaustive end-user guide to shipdata.net's /market page: the DBPI headline, World LSR, the hottest-band readout, per-band tabs, the six KPI cards, the route calculator's trade-balance maths, the ten-column region table, the independent bottom-up lane engine, the all-bands snapshot, and the methodology card.
Live map & 3D Globe
An exhaustive walkthrough of shipdata.net's flat live map (/app) and 3D globe (/globe and the homepage), covering every dot, popup, filter, layer, ticker, slider and tooltip actually rendered by the page.
World fleet
A complete end-user guide to the World Fleet leaderboard, the per-operator detail page, and the side-by-side owner comparison tool on shipdata.net.
Cargo routes
An exhaustive walkthrough of the /cargo-routes page: how laden voyages are collapsed into trade lanes, every filter, window chip and search box, the seven KPI cards, the three top-20 lane leaderboards, and all fifteen columns of the All-routes table with sorting, dual search, pagination and lane drill-down.
Open tonnage & Radar
A deep, element-by-element guide to the merged Open-tonnage / Ballaster Radar tool: every filter, both result tables, the Fit-score pills, status/outlook badges, the sea-route ETA/laycan-fit/size-fit scoring, and the browse-mode region and days-to-open controls.
Ports & Congestion
An exhaustive walkthrough of shipdata.net's Ports directory (/ports), per-port detail pages (/port/<code>) with their four tabs and Port Activity Index, and the live Congestion board (/congestion) - documenting every tab, KPI, badge, chart, table column, filter and status colour.
Ship pages
An exhaustive walkthrough of every element on the shipdata.net per-vessel page: the header and its stacked analytic cards, the shared live map and weather overlay, the live-transit simulator, and the Overview / Voyages / History tabs.
Distance
A complete element-by-element walkthrough of the /routes "Distance" page: port pickers, sea-route vs great-circle distance, the drawn lane on the map, the six KPI cards, the tonnage/weekly/monthly seasonality tables and bar charts, the round-trip economics calculator, and the raw voyage table that profiles a single port pair.
Daily News
A guide to the Daily News page (/news and /news/<date>): the report index, the per-report layout, and how each report is built from shipdata.net's own fleet data - including the forward-looking Outlook section.
Analytics
See how the tracked dry-bulk fleet shifts over time: state and outlook trends, tightness, speed, regional share, demand pressure and busiest loading ports.
Bunker
Track daily marine fuel prices by port: VLSFO, MGO, IFO380, HSFO380 and LSMGO, with a price-history chart over 30 days to 1 year.
Emissions
Estimate a dry-bulk ship's per-voyage CO2, EU-ETS carbon cost and CII rating from its tracked voyages and fuel consumption.
FFA Reports™
A daily, one-page dry-bulk freight assessment: shipdata's own modelled spot estimate, break-even, momentum and busiest lane per vessel class.
Fleet Optimizer
For every open ballaster, where should it go next? Rank load regions by reposition-adjusted TCE, with an eco speed and per-voyage CII estimate.
My Fleet
Save vessels to My Fleet from any ship page, watch their live state, position and open-tonnage outlook, and get Telegram pings when they move.
Ship benchmark
Compare up to 6 dry-bulk ships against a same-size peer cohort: utilization, ballast, port time, ton-miles, load-port quality and a 0-100 efficiency index.
Ships
Search the dry-bulk fleet by ship name, IMO, MMSI, destination or owner. See live state, load, open outlook, destination & ETA at a glance.
Trade flows
Read dry-bulk demand in near real time: laden ton-miles by day, size class and trade lane, built from tracked voyages ahead of customs data.
Rankings
Members-only league tables that rank dry-bulk operators and individual ships from worst to best on two axes: operational efficiency and a modelled idle-adjusted TCE profitability.
Tonnage Gap
How the regional tonnage-gap map projects where vessel demand will exceed supply: the supply ledger, the seasonal demand model, and the out-of-sample proof panel.
Fix This Cargo
How the Fix This Cargo prices a load-to-discharge voyage: the live spot lane rate plus your repositioning-adjusted floor - accept below spot into a strong export basin, add a ballast-back surcharge into a weak one. Country-to-country under 17,500 dwt, region-to-region above.
Freight Index
A daily board of the headline dry-bulk trade lanes - Capesize, Panamax, Supramax and Handysize - each priced from live vessel supply and demand, with a fixed lane set that builds a comparable market history over time.
Evidence Desk
Turn a tracked port call into an AIS-proven timeline - anchorage arrival, berth, sail - with queue context and a private laytime calculator for demurrage and despatch discussions.