Ship Segment

Bulk Carriers Market

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

Fleet

12,217

959.8M dwt

Average age

15.5 yrs

median 14 yrs

Orderbook / fleet

4.3%

523 on order

Secondhand

$259 /dwt

1,191 sales

Fleet

Fleet Structure

Tracked vessels12,217

Total deadweight959.8M dwt

Average age15.5 yrs

Median age14 yrs

Snapshot date2026-10-16

Age distribution

0-4608 (5%)

5-91,951 (16%)

10-143,600 (29%)

15-193,316 (27%)

20-241,204 (10%)

25+1,538 (13%)

Supply

Orderbook & Deployment

On order

523

66.5M dwt

Orderbook / fleet

4.3%

on-order ÷ in-service

Net supply (1y)

+1.2%

248 due 1y

Deployment

20.7% slow-steaming

38.4% idle

Pricing

Asset Value & Freight

Secondhand benchmark

$259 /dwt

median of 1,191 sales (12m)

Dry Bulk Freight Index

2,545 pts

2026-10-15

TC-equivalent

not published

Recycling

Recycling Pressure

Median scrap age

27 yrs

structural curve

Demolished (12m)

124

vessels

LDT recycled (12m)

859k LDT

Scrap rate

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 2026-10-16.

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