Ship Segment

Bulk Carriers Market

The dry-bulk fleet — Capesize, Panamax, Supramax and Handysize tonnage hauling iron ore, coal and grain.

Fleet

12,219

959.9M dwt

Average age

15.5 yrs

median 14 yrs

Orderbook / fleet

6.8%

828 on order

Secondhand

$242 /dwt

509 sales

Fleet

Fleet Structure

Tracked vessels12,219

Total deadweight959.9M dwt

Average age15.5 yrs

Median age14 yrs

Snapshot date2026-06-23

Age distribution

0-4608 (5%)

5-91,951 (16%)

10-143,601 (29%)

15-193,316 (27%)

20-241,204 (10%)

25+1,539 (13%)

Supply

Orderbook & Deployment

On order

828

93M dwt

Orderbook / fleet

6.8%

on-order ÷ in-service

Net supply (1y)

+1.8%

237 due 1y

Deployment

19.1% slow-steaming

36.1% idle

Pricing

Asset Value & Freight

Secondhand benchmark

$242 /dwt

median of 509 sales (12m)

Dry Bulk Freight Index

2,722 pts

2026-06-22

TC-equivalent

—

not published

Recycling

Recycling Pressure

Median scrap age

29 yrs

structural curve

Demolished (12m)

vessels

LDT recycled (12m)

497k LDT

Scrap rate

0.5%

12m count ÷ fleet

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This overview is a pure rollup over the same data behind our deep analytics pages — it fetches no new source, so it can never drift from them. Fleet, age and orderbook come from our tracked fleet and the orderbook feed; secondhand pricing is the outlier-screened trailing-365d median $/dwt; the freight index is shown under our own generic name (CONTAINER and GAS have no licensed index today and are left blank). Figures are honest to the underlying sample — a thin segment is flagged. Computed 2026-06-23.

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