AIS Analytics

Position Value

Where a ship is worth most to be open right now — regions ranked by current cargo demand against today's spot earnings, for the dry-bulk and tanker markets. A vessel open near a high-index region picks up the next cargo with the least repositioning.

Dry-bulk cargo demand leads with China at 17% of tracked calls, 1.4x the next region — while tanker cargo demand concentrates on Japan — 19% of tracked calls and 2.7x the next region.

How concentrated each market is

Each region's share of its market's total tracked calls, by rank — the two markets on one axis, which the boards' independent scales hide.

Dry-bulk Tanker

Region rank on the horizontal axis (1 = the market’s busiest region); the tail past the top 8 is off-chart, so the shares do not sum to 100.

Dry-bulk cargo demand by region

Regions ranked by dry-bulk cargo port-calls (trailing 30 days); the strip carries each class's latest TC rate.

Capesize

$45,651/day

Panamax

$20,213/day

Supramax

$20,765/day

Handysize

$15,834/day

1China1002,660 calls6%
2Japan721,904 calls2%
3USA401,071 calls5%
4India34916 calls3%
5Australia33877 calls1%
6Brazil24647 calls2%
7Indonesia24646 calls1%
8Canada17456 calls4%
9Viet Nam14373 calls15%
10Taiwan11297 calls3%
11Turkey11284 calls21%
12Argentina10272 calls5%
13South Korea10258 calls9%
14Malaysia8212 calls2%
15Spain8209 calls24%
16Russia7182 calls27%
17South Africa7177 calls3%
18Netherlands6169 calls6%
19Mexico6165 calls2%
20United Kingdom5136 calls11%

Tanker cargo demand by region

Regions ranked by tanker cargo port-calls (trailing 30 days); the strip carries each composite's latest index level.

Dirty Tanker

2,851 pts

Clean Tanker

1,351 pts

1Japan1006,680 calls
2Netherlands372,498 calls8%
3Singapore332,191 calls2%
4China322,115 calls7%
5USA251,677 calls2%
6Indonesia231,533 calls4%
7South Korea191,270 calls3%
8Belgium181,177 calls
9Thailand171,131 calls17%
10Malaysia13864 calls2%
11Spain13842 calls3%
12United Kingdom12774 calls1%
13Turkey11719 calls3%
14India10652 calls4%
15Italy9620 calls
16Viet Nam9582 calls2%
17Greece8556 calls7%
18France8555 calls5%
19Russia8539 calls2%
20Norway7465 calls9%

A 0-100 demand-intensity index from dry-bulk / tanker port-calls over a lag-buffered 30-day window, shown against each segment’s latest rate (dry-bulk classes in $/day TC, tanker composites as the index level). Descriptive v1 — the demand map is shared within a market (cargo isn’t yet split by ship class at the port level) and ballast-distance-adjusted routing is a v2. Trend vs the prior 30 days. All analytics →