Chartering Commodities Freight

Shipfix not only provides insights into the historical, current and future supply and demand of maritime trade, but also ‘metadata’ around how market participants are behaving at any...

Orders Commodities Freight

Spot Panamax freight rates (PMX 4TC, Feb-21) increased by 130% in the last 3 months, reaching $15,625/day on 11th Feb-21 vs. $6,825/day on 2nd Nov-20). How will commodity houses,...

Commodities Grains China Export

The Shipfix Wheat Index tracks Global seaborne order volumes of wheat since 2015. The graph below shows the relationship between the price of wheat over the past 12 months and wheat...

Orders Commodities Grains China Import

An interesting trading signal appeared on the Shipfix Forward Curve for rice exports from India into China last week. The Forward Curve provides unprecedented insights into upcoming...

Orders Commodities China Import Export

Aluminium is a strategic resource used across manufacturing and industrial sectors: automobile, defence, transportation, energy, aerospace, consumer durables and many others. Bauxite is...

Orders Commodities Grains China

The Shipfix Soybean Index provides insights into demand sentiment since 2015. The index shows a strong correlation between soybean prices and volumes shipped by sea. Soybean prices...

Commodities Market data Import Export LME steel products

Ahead of the annual LME conference on Monday 19th October, The London Metal Exchange (LME) has stated that “metals [are] the cornerstone of sustainability” in future economic activity.

Commodities Market data Import Export Nickel

During the Tesla Annual Shareholders Meeting and Battery Day last week, Elon Musk announced an ambitious innovation plan focusing on Tesla’s own batteries production and a more...

Commodities Grains Export

Thailand is expected to lose its coveted #2 position in the global trade for rice as the country’s production faced drought and the appreciation of the Thai Baht challenged Thailand...

Commodities Grains Market data Export

In this post, we look into the corn trade and compare it with soybean based on an analysis of historical Shipfix export indicators as well as our Shipfix Forward Order curve which is...

Commodities Market data Import fertilisers

Urea is the most concentrated solid nitrogen fertiliser (46%) and the most commonly used in large scale agriculture. Demand for urea has grown significantly over the last 50 years and...

Commodities Data Market data Community Contribution

Contrary to exchange traded securities, over the counter ("OTC") trading remains decentralised, opaque and generally not very well digitalised.

Commodities Predictive correlations Market data Base metals

In July 2020 Copper prices reached to a two year high following a rally that started in March of the year. This represents an increase of almost 40% and makes copper one of the most...

Commodities US China Import Export

In 2019, China effectively ranked as the 3rd largest importer of US Agricultural products with over $13.8bn worth of trade. In the first quarter of 2020, China imported twice as many...

Orders Commodities Grains Russia Data Predictive correlations Market data

Using Shipfix's global dataset on cargo orders, we prove our ability to predict physical trade flows quantitatively and objectively. In this article, we detail a few practical examples,...