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.