Platts Market Data - Shipping

**Overview**

Platts global freight assessments have provided a basis for trade across commodities for decades. As the market evolves, our scientific and transparent methodology is updated to reflect market changes more accurately. We bring consistency to our price assessments through principles and parameters that guide our market specialists at every stage of the process.

With Platts Market Data – Shipping you will receive:

-Global coverage
-Platts shipping assessments deeply embedded and underpinning our commodity price assessments
-Cross commodity, bulk market coverage
-Market relevance - 0.5% sulfur compliant, new routes are added, old routes removed

Coverage includes:

-Dirty Tankers - Freight rates by vessel/cargo size for 85+ key crude and fuel oil routes; dual rates - Worldscale/Lumpsum vs $/MT pricing
-Clean Tankers - Freight rates by vessel/cargo size for 90+ key refined oil and LPG routes and 25+ key petrochemical routes; dual rates - Worldscale/Lumpsum vs $/MT pricing
-LNG Carriers - Freight rates by vessel/cargo size for 99 LNG key routes
-Dry Bulk Carrier – 30+ Timecharter equivalent rate ($/day) for capesize, panamax and supramax size vessels and 120+ Voyage charter rates for capesize to handymax size vessels to transport alumina, bauxite, coking and thermal coal, ferrous scrap, grains, iron ore, limestone, petcoke, polymers and sugar
-Container box rates and bunker surcharges – Box and bunker surcharges rates ($/FEU) for 20 routes transporting manufactured goods

**Use cases**

- Asset Valuation - Evaluate ROI for Energy projects and assets
- Quantitative Analysis - Leverage SPGCI data to design and implement complex and insightful models to support energy and commodities trading
- ESG Investment Analysis - Combine SPGCI data with project data-sets into models for visibility, optimizations, and collaboration
- Risk Analysis - Utilize SPGCI's independent, verifiable Risk data to support all risk management functions including validation of internal valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy
- Fundamental Analysis - Connect SPGCI pricing data with financial and operations data, and sensing technology to optimize decision-making on spending, productivity and cycle time
- Supply Chain - Integrate SPGCI data to optimize pipeline network management and commercial processes while enabling more effective predictive operations

**Product details**

Sample Tables:
A ) PRICEDATA
B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA

Sample Fields:
A ) PRICEDATA
- SYMBOL
- MDC
- DESCRIPTION
- BATE
- ASSESSDATE
- UOM
- CURRENCY

B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA
- COMMODITY
- DELIVERY_REGION
- DESCRIPTION

View Descriptions:

- PRICEDATA - Get the latest and historical assessments by Symbol
- CORRECTIONS - Get all corrections to the assessments by Symbol
- REF_DATA_MARKETDATA - Get additional reference data for Symbols
- MARKETDATA_DICTIONARY - Contains descriptions and examples of each of the columns in the above views for a better understanding of the dataset