Top Charterers

Method & caveats

• Charterer ≠ owner / manager. This page keys on the party that hires tonnage (the cargo interest or operator on the hiring side of a fixture), not the registered owner or the technical manager. The supply-side structure is on the owner-concentration and technical-manager pages.
• Attributable fixtures are the rows of our chartering-fixtures feed that name a real charterer. Names are lightly normalised (legal-suffix and group-branch folding) so most legal-suffix and branch variants collapse to one row; the folding is deliberately conservative and never guesses that two differently-named firms are the same group, so a handful of near-duplicate name variants (e.g. an acronym vs the full legal name) can still appear as separate rows.
• Chartered DWT & Avg fixture sum and average deadweight over a charterer's dwt-bearing fixtures only — many fixtures report no deadweight, so both cover just the priced subset. This is why the busiest charterers by fixture count can sit well down the tonnage ranking: their tonnage is recorded for only a fraction of their fixtures. Read both as a recorded figure, a floor, not a complete chartered volume.
• Cargo mix prefers the reported cargo string; where a fixture carries no cargo it falls back to the vessel-type label as a proxy. Each charterer's mix is tagged with its basis so it is clear which you are looking at.
• Routes are recorded only for fixtures carrying BOTH a load and a discharge port — most do not, so a charterer's route list is often empty. It is built correctly, not faked, and fills in as port-bearing fixtures land.
• Honest scope: our fixtures feed is a thin verified seed plus a slow trickle, not a fixture wire — only a minority of rows carry a charterer. This is a known-fixtures read of charterer activity, explicitly partial. It is not a market-share or chartering-volume claim, and undisclosed / unnamed counterparties are excluded rather than shown as a phantom top charterer.
• Segments are bulkers, tankers, container ships, gas carriers and other. Derived entirely from our own fixtures feed of verified public chartering disclosures. No third-party fixture wire is reproduced.